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Carlos Raposo, the greatest liar in football history * He was a professional footballer for 20 years, without being a player * Nicknamed the Forrest Gump of Brazil, claimed to have been world champion with Independiente   Some liars deserve a prize. Liars like Carlos Henrique Raposo. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1963, he was a professional footballer for 20 years, without knowing how to kick a ball. He played along legends like Ricardo Rocha, Renato Gaúcho, Romario, Branco, Bebeto and Carlos Alberto Torres.   Due to his physical similarity to Fran Beckenbauer, he was called Kaiser, and that nicknamed was sung by fans from Mexico to France.   But how did he build his myth? The boy, aged 23, was a friend of Mauricio, a Botafogo idol. Half joking and half serious, Raposo asked the crack (top player) if he could get him a contract with the first team. Not as masseur or waterboy, but as a player. That, despite the fact that he had barely kicked the ball in beach games.   Incredibly, Botafogo hired him. But Reposo had to play, and he didn't know how! He sorted that out easily: "I went to training sessions, and after a few minutes of exercise I would touch my thigh or calf and asked to go see the doctor. I would be injured for 20 days, and in those days there were no magnetic resonance scans. When those days were done, I had a dentist friend who certified that I had some physical problem. And so the months went by. Botafogo believed they had a crack in me, and I was a source of mystery," said Raposo in interviews.   Amazingly, and despite not playing a single minute with Botafogo for a year, he was purchased by Flamengo. There, he made another great friend, Renato Gaúcho. This is how the former Roma and Brazil national team player remembers him: "He was an enemy of the ball. During training, he would ask a teammate to kick him, and he would end up at the nursing room."   Raposo would arrive at the training ground with a gigantic m