How To Invent a Fake Superstar

December 14, 2023 54m

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As a teenage prankster crashing the football transfer window, Kieran Morris juiced the Wikipedia page for an obscure player across the globe, and word spread from London to the MLS of a legend in the making: The Honduran Maradona. Ten years later, our correspondent finds out what really happened to Alexander Lopez.

(Adapted from an episode of Sports Explains the World)

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