Masul Bugduv: The New Sidd Finch
A new faux superstar athlete, this time the Moldovan soccer star Masul Bugduv:
What made the hoax so clever [was] the way it managed to beat the media at their own game…Unlike the American sports media, most of the world’s soccer press is delightfully unburdened by retrograde ethical standards regarding “the need to attribute quotations to a person” and “the need to report information that has features in common with the truth.”…They’re full of hoaxes already, tales planted by manipulative club representatives, prehensile agents, and the nannies of David Beckham.
Relatedly, The London Times list of the Top 50 soccer prospects, which placed Bugduv at #30, has American phenom Jozy Altidore at #7.
