How To Invent a Fake Superstar

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 10 a.m.

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.\n\n(Adapted from an episode of Sports Explains the World)\n\nWatch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-QzVmd8TEjw \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices