Real Madrid Gets Conned By Nicolas Cage Impostor

Wednesday’s Real Madrid – Roma Champions League clash was surely a marquee event. Two clubs which know how to bag goals ad nauseam fighting for continuing participation in club football’s greatest competition. There were surely some big names in the stands, but the one getting headlines is Nicolas Cage…because it wasn’t Nicolas Cage. Real Madrid only thought it was. (Yes, that’s the impostor.)

The lookalike, Italian television presenter Paolo Calabresi, watched Wednesday’s game from the directors’ viewing area at the Bernabeu and was taken into the team dressing room afterwards, Spanish sports daily Marca reported on Saturday.

He was even photographed being presented with a personalised Real shirt by club president Ramon Calderon.

I understand Nicolas is a Coppola and all (you know, like of the Francis Ford Godfather variety – that’s his uncle), but the accent didn’t throw them off? Or maybe Paolo is just fluent in Spanish and they assumed the same for Nicolas? Or maybe, because Nicolas is such a huge Hollywood star, they figured he doesn’t speak and took his grunts as orders? Regardless of how they screwed this up, somebody in the fact checking department or something needs to be canned. The guy looks nothing like Cameron Poe.

And let’s hope that jersey gets hung up somewhere real public. Just about sums up Ramon Calderon right there.

My favorite part, however, was this:

Calabresi organised the stunt by using the name of an agency in the United States that had recently arranged a similar meeting at the Bernabeu for another actor, Sylvester Stallone.

They’re letting Sly Stallone into these things now? Where the hell have our standards gone?

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