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- As a kid, Gregoire Akcelrod’s dad told him that he was such a bad footballer that he should never kick a ball again. But Gregoire wasn’t going to let that stop him from fulfilling his childhood dream.
With the help of a fake website, an embellished CV, and some misleading photos, Gregoire hoaxed his way from being an unfit amateur player to convincing top clubs he was a rising star.
The ruse worked so well that he was only hours away from being signed by a team in the Champions League, when football fans spotted that something was very wrong.
In one night, his lies started to unravel, and his life’s ambitions came tumbling down.
In a series of candid interviews, Fakes, Frauds & Scammers relives some of the most audacious scams and fraudulent stunts of our time from the mouths of the perpetrators themselves. Whether it’s money, fame or simply an addiction to lying, we find out what motivated these tricksters and whether the highs, lows and ramifications were worth it in the end.
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His father's words changed his life. This shows how deep our words can make impact, either good or bad
Totally true. Only if his dad was suuportive. Maybe he would have had the motivation and determination to become a pro player. Deep inside, he was sure he was fake...thats why he became the best faker, not player. :)
@@MrTerro90 Millions of young footballers have motivation and determination and don't make it. Going pro requires luck and genetics as well as work ethic.
@@gort5516 and a positive attitude. Conversely, never overthink...
@@gort5516 you won’t make it with that mentality…
Yup exactly good catch man
“Life is a joke.” I like this attitude! So why not try to maximize enjoyment? Good on him for chasing a crazy dream.
Jesse Stirling: For some strange reason I thought of Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and a few other twisted humans after reading your comment. Life-brain goes both ways I guess...
Dream big, lie harder, turn your delusion into reality. Inspirational stuff tbh
Life is not a joke. Jesus is coming back soon!
Coaches HATE him!
See how he got a £15k/month football contract using one WEIRD TRICK.
Great joke
15,000*
@@Trippze isn’t that what 15k means? 🤔🙃
@@camerondopman3250 only to people with Roman ancestors.
Not to the cow/goat lover type.
@@camerondopman3250 he edited his comment
You can't be fake if they signed you , it's just not a good signing.
Lol amazing
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Try that argument in the hood when you've selling baking soda as coke.
"Can't be fake if you bought it."
Your journey ends there...
@@orvarino we aren’t in the “hood” Oscar, we’re talking about football weirdo.
@@orvarino he literally trained and passed??
Dude would’ve been one hell of an agent, he probably could’ve made way more doing that than trying to play 🤣
Just googled him after this video and according to an article I read about him, he does work as an agent these days
@@trsctr yo wtf lol
This is what Fred did to get into Man United
😂😂
And Maguire learnt from him… haha
Same Fred that plays for Brazil
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
The difference between being a professional and being an amateur is being paid and how much. This guy was a pro. Just not a good one.
Probably some amateurs are better tbh
your thinking in labels , idols , signage , you have to work ,he just photocopied himself in
@@bigcat47 If he got a contract, that means he was signed.
@@ustearblower There's no doubt. The other part is that if Greg put in enough effort in the tryout, the manager and front office might see him as a leader on the squad as a backup despite being quite awful as he's charismatic and works hard. You just hope he didn't play too often.
I thought I learned french out of nowhere, then I realised he was speaking english
if u speak both language you gonna laugh hard
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This is brilliant. 😄
Lol 😆
Lmfao
I am bulgarian and i immediately recognized him. As a fan of CSKA Sofia's rivals - Levski Sofia i was non stop laughing and joking about that. The whole bulgarian football community made fun of CSKA back then.
Make the music louder while they're talking next time, almost didn't hear it.
This guy was never going to let anyone stop him
This is where disparaging words from your dad can get you to.
Honestly, thats the part that stood out to me the most. What kind of father says that to their kid...its fucked up.
Lmao, this man is a legend. I love the fact that he would have done it again if he had the chance. Respect!
Its funny when you think about the fact that maybe that one line by his father after watching him kinda decided his whole future...Maybe if he didnt say that he just might have ended up being an actual footballer....
I love that he won't take NO for an answer. Why not do it.
Maybe because it's fraud?
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And you're South African 😭
That's exactly what I say to myself any time a girl says no.
More power to the lad! Hell of a story to tell the grandkids 😂👍
"the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do"
I was going to claim he would never be able to pull that scam in American football, but after seeing how some of my fantasy players have bombed, maybe I have been fooled myself!
Look at Tony Mandarich,drafted by the Packers 1989.
Somebody give this man a medal already. Its stories like these. Absolute LeGeNd...! 👏
Good for him. Clubs should give him a job as a marketing director of some sort.
play for sunday league team and says he plays for pro team "small difference"
Good for him.
I actually worked for a very well known retail electrical company for over a year in the 1990's under an assumed name, identity and work history.
Was never "caught".
Absolute Legend m8
So how you got paid, in cash orso?
Wtf bro why you snitching me out
Damn! Nice one!
@@RomboutVersluijs With the same ID I opened a building society savings account which my wages were paid into.
I left the company when I turned up for work one Monday morning and the warehouse was crawling with cops. They'd been robbed of three and a half million pounds of stock over the space of a weekend.
Time for me to go.
Dad: and that's how presidents are elected son...
This is how a lot of people get jobs...
@@LilView yeah true no a one is intentionally trying to market themselves poorly
Good for him 👍🏽👍🏽.... He leveled the playing field and they just didn't like it.
You could do it today. A guy called Bernio Verhagen did it. From February 2019 until November 2019 he signed for 5 professional clubs in Moldova, Southafrica, Chile and Denmark without ever playing a single match, escaping from the police in several countries before being arrested in Colombia by a bunch of sex workers.
He got arrested by sex workers?? 😆🤣
Bro what lmao 🤣
He may have faked being a football player, but he's incredibly smart. Kudos to him. Like my teacher used to say, "If I don't catch you cheating you deserve the grade for cheating so well."
dangerous mindset, only do if you have no choice and when the situation arises and asks, dont premidate it and try to do it all the time or you will fail. forget what you have done and at best avoiding doing it whenever you can
Haha I have a similar photo of me in robes with a degree at a graduation in University, I never went to university just attended a graduation lol 😅will make a good linkdn page tho haha
Fake it till you make it!
🐐
Similar to Carlos Kaiser which almost sounds absurd he got away with it so long (and you would think people would learn from something like him, and evidently only the con artists have.)
Send him to the mls, his lack of skills won't be noticed. If anything he'll fit right in 😅
“the mls”
I’m American and I approve of this comment 😂
Yeah cause alot of Americans play over seas now
Best tale of a "fake it till you make it"
I am CSKA Sofia fan. I remember this story. However, there is one even better bulgarian fake transfer story called "the Kazan affair".
Lol that was the funniest $hit ever with those memes of the faxes from Kazan 😂
I thought his Name was Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls him Giorgio.
Fits right in with all the other pros and their fake injury acting. He’s totally qualified to play
Audio mixer could have toned down some of the background music, dialogue is hard to hear
hard to unable indeed, quite annoying.
thought i was the only one
To be fair there are players who are beyond average playing in top teams because of good agents. It's not realistic to think that the best players always play for the best teams, nowadays it's all a matter of how can you sell yourself off
"I sent letters to all the biggest clubs in the world, Chelsea, Manchester, and one club answered me.... Swindon Town."
Were they even in the leagues then?!
City wasn't even a big club then. Arguable, at that time, PSG wasn't either.
He is changing the story a bit every time. And yes this was pre Qatar area in Paris and when this happened PSG was usually fighting mid table in ligue 1…
That last shot tho💥
That finish at the end was quality..
would been a good story if he actually had football talent and was overlooked
Getting 15k a month to chase a ball around a field is insane. Crazy world we live in.
It’s a sport dumb ****. You can use that logic on any job. If enough money is coming in then players get paid what is affordable to club. Better than the multi billion dollar companies paying minimum wage to their employees. That’s the crazy perspective you need to see.
@@lucaviladrich2900 dumb haters say this to anything celebrity
@@lucaviladrich2900 most of the high paying jobs are retarded, most of the sports dont deserve to earn as much as they earn, the same with painting blobs of differente color, the same with musicians and singers, the amount of pay of those jobs need to correlate to how complex the thing is and how it affects the live of others in a direct manner.
there is no logic for a fucking retarded sport's guy earn more than a fucking doctor or cirurgion that SAVES lives every day with their technical expertise
@@lucaviladrich2900 I hope you're not so childishly hostile off the keyboard.
Calm down, grab a cup of tea or something.
@@Recomeçar-Denovo they get paid because people pay to watch them. Capitalism
Advocating these days, once Andy Warhol said "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."
I like this quote thanks
This is 8 mins long
this is the most hilarious video I have watched in a long time, such guts!!!!
The true meaning of “ fake it till you make it “
This man is a genius
Funny enough, I just made a video about Premier League's GREATEST HOAX, on how someone conned his way into a Premier League team. ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
I checked it out...pretty nice dude
Love your content mate
🔥🔥
Bro you're massively underrated ♥️
Great clip!
One thing though: Could you please not set the music so loud when the people are talking (like at 6:30) ? It is hard to understand the interviewed person, especially as a non-native speaker. Thanks in advance.
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What a great scam..... a story for the grandkids and down the pub for life!!
Nothing compared to Kaiser, the Brazilian fake professional footballer making a full career. Even a book written about him,
Stories like this always remind me of the forever burning philosophical question, do the ends justify the means? It really depends on who you ask.
How to be a great dad....1:08 "You are so bad at football, I don't want you to play any more football in your life." Hahahahaha...
Mourinho: ''Why didn't i sink of that first??''
who the hell mixed the sound on this? give me a job god damn it.
Cal the dragon: how i tricked tiktok into believing i was a good goalkeeper
Got to admit that was a lovely finish into the top corner at the end.
It’s amazing what people will do to make it in life!!!!!
@MERINA How about to take your comments and ram them where the sun don’t shine?
He already "made" it, didn't you see the family videos? Do you think a REGULAR person has the financial security to take YEARS out of their life to do this?
Then again, you probably do. But that's not how it works. He's a spoiled baby who had time and money to do this nonsense. Nothing more.
To be honest, I am just surprised how humanity is still alive.
From sociopath dad onto sociopath son. How special!
Soccer is an entertainment industry. Marketing is just as important as performance
For someone who has been playing a sport for so long.... he is still so un-athletic and uncoordinated 😂
Poor man he worked so hard to get there...i mean to lie all tge way to the top...he took the say " fake it until you make it" to the next level!!
One could say he was the original Instagramer!!
No remorse. No feeling of guilt... Just a sense of entitlement. Wow 😂
I mean if my dad said something like that I would get onto a soccer team to prove him wrong too. But the delivery was weird I'll give you that, who knows how they edited it together.
Everybody gets their 15 minutes of fame,but it's how you perceive your "fame" to be...
I love it blurring the lines between reality and fiction
I'm a CSKA Sofia fan and remember him well. Frankly I hated how we let him go without playing. Who knows he might have pulled a miracle or just be hilariously bad.
Basically every senior full stack developer
From the thumbnail I thought that was Tom Scott lmao
6:30 - "They just felt that their ego's had been shattered"... No mate, they thought they had been defrauded, there's a fairly significant difference. Where do you even find these clowns?
That would NEVER be possible with American football, they would have known what his mailman had for dinner 2 years ago. NOTHING gets past the NFL.
Oh no! Anyways
He did everything it took to be a footballer, apart from try to improve by practising?
Every bulgarian can confirm, that he probably plays better than the most of the CSKA "players"
This guy would outplay anyone in the hungarian national team.
definition of "work smarter not harder"
Would’ve been a good signing for FC Dallas 😭
Get that contract fully guaranteed boi 😂
what an inspiration. whats the worst that could happen if u stretch the truth on an application
Thought it was gonna be Oobah
I miss the guy.
Regardless of whether he was talented or not, what a horrible thing his dad said.
When he said, it couldnt happen today :)
Talk to Bernio Verhagen about that ;)
Who scored / mixed mastered the audio on this 😂😂
Says his dream was broken when he got canned. As if he worked hard to get good and naturally got recruited lol.
I mean maybe his dream was to scam his way there lol 😆
@@IVAN_ENT lol I guess you can look at it that way. But he took the spot of someone who was worthy though
meanwhile in parallel universe:
greg's dad: hey kid, you didn't play good today but if you have what it takes you will improve
greg: legits sign the fc
Still better then magiure? Im not sure who faked it better…
So they signed the guy based on marketing. Did they not watch the guy play? What a joke!
they are getting marketing themselves now arent they?
"okay dad, you forbid me to play football" ... DAAAMMMM BROOO!!!
Why you gotta take it to such a bleak level... (Even though you exaggerated the remarks said from your dad)!
😖😖😖
newcastle should hire this guy as their sporting director 😅
Shout-out to this dude 😂. He got to live out his dream. I'm surprised how clubs fell for it but it is what it is when they don't do enough digging. Reminds me of that one dude who signed for i think it was Southampton or something back in the day i think his name was Ali Día 😂
Whoever mastered the audio for this video and added a random dubstep track at 6:10 should just be fired lmao
Fred is finessing us the same fr.
he just reflects how fake sports are... he is a product of the industry...
Plot twist: Ryan Mattis is a Fake 'former footballer'
Werner and Havertz: 😬😬
Dude could have made millions with marketing or just by being a football agent, yet seems like a regular bloke with only a few cents on his pocket just telling this crazy story that as obviously ended with him being a fraud.
Ole would still play him instead of Van De Beek
Imagine how the real footballers that are looking for a shot feel about this mini doc
It should push them to put themselves out there even more
th-cam.com/video/_cSE6ylyvwA/w-d-xo.html 👍🏻
Would encourage them to learn html
So this is how fred got into Man Utd
Welcome to the world of politics😉😎
Literally every sunday legue player 😂😂
Ali Dia must be so proud seeing this
Him considering man city a big club in those days🤣