Players faking their identities (2 Viewers)

[Mr. Gol]

I got the inspiration for this from the (closed) thread about Obafemi Martins date of birth.

Even with the incredible media focus on football some players still manage to lie about their passport, date of birth, or idendity. Some examples:

- Inter signed a guy from Chievo in 2003/2004, a right winger by the name of Luciano, age 29. However, when he first joined Chievo he claimed to be 22!

- When Dida first joined Milan he claimed to have a EU passport because he had Italian ancestors...which he in fact hadn't. He eventually got banned for a year.

Does anyone know any others?

 

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[tassard]

I think that Recoba had a fake Italian passport too

 

[AbuGadanzieri]

- Inter signed a guy from Chievo in 2003/2004, a right winger by the name of Luciano, age 29. However, when he first joined Chievo he claimed to be 22!

i remember that person his name is luciano but he was wearing the name is erberto and he was saying he was only 22 and then when they find that his age is 29 and he name is luciano and he bought a passport from some young person they baned him

 

[Sadomin]

- Inter signed a guy from Chievo in 2003/2004, a right winger by the name of Luciano, age 29. However, when he first joined Chievo he claimed to be 22!

And he went under the name Eriberto before he was caught too.

 

[AbuGadanzieri]

veron also had fake italian passport when he played with lazio and they had many players from south america and they had to give him the fake italian passport

 

[Dominic]

Robben has a fake passport, in reality he is in his 40'ties.




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[Juve Bella]

yea i knew that about robben he seems older than 21 i heard that in some match

 

[Badass J Elkann]

lol Oh yeah!! eriberto aka luciano aka god knows wotever else, lol wasn't he good at inter

what about cambiasso?? he cant be 27 or however old he is, hes at least in his 40s with that hair

 

[Seven]

Luciano was just plain stupid. Imagine if he had kept it up. When he would claim to be 32 in reality he would be 39.

 

[Sadomin]

In that case, Emerson is old enough to be a tanned Santa Claus.

 

[Eddy]

In that case, Emerson is old enough to be a tanned Santa Claus.

But Santa Claus's hair doesnt fall

 

[HiMovic]

so is that means rooney isnt 20? or is that what biritsh people seems to be older? (NO offense)

terry 25 for sure?

 

[Hambon]

cafu looks younger than puma....

 

[sateeh]

i remember that luciano guy....is the martins thing true tough?

 

[HelterSkelter]

terry has always looked older than his age imo.and whats that bit about martins?

 

[Slagathor]

and whats that bit about martins?

He's Nigerian: and that's all the information you need in a thread discussing players that lied about their age.

 

[Mr. Gol]

i remember that luciano guy....is the martins thing true tough?

I don't know. Some newspaper had the story at some point, but they have no evidence that he's actually 28. What was proven is that his birth certificate IS false, but that doesn't mean that his age is different.

 

[Slagathor]

I don't know. Some newspaper had the story at some point, but they have no evidence that he's actually 28. What was proven is that his birth certificate IS false, but that doesn't mean that his age is different.

Well there's only so many reasons you will fake a birth certificate for. The most common type of birth certificate holds the following information:

1. Your name
2. Your date of birth
3. Your place of birth (and thereby indirectly your nationality)
4. The name of your mother
5. The name of your father

So either he didn't like his name (I doubt it, you can change your name without faking your birth certificate), he wanted to ditch his nationality for migratory/political reasons (clearly not, who would pick Nigerian), he didn't like his parents (unlikely reason to change your birth certificate for), OR .... *drumroll* he didn't appreciate his real age.

 

[Badass J Elkann]

babayaro a fellow nigerian team mate of martins stated how they both played at u21 level, is babyaro is in his late 20's/30s then the story about martins must be true.

 

[Byrone]

He's Nigerian: and that's all the information you need in a thread discussing players that lied about their age.

The Feyenoord academy here are having the same problem as kids fake their birth certificates in order to earn a move to Holland.Its a more common problem than expected.