Real Madrid Gets Conned By Nicolas Cage Impostor

By: chris | March 8th, 2008

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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Tags: Champions League, Impostor, Nicolas Cage, Paolo Calabresi, Real Madrid, Roma, Sly Stallone

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• Matt |  March 8th, 2008 at 9:39 am

  
  
  

  Isn’t Sly a Everton fan?

  If that’s what Real thinks Nicholas Cage looks like then may God have mercy on their soul. Fair shakes to the guy for pulling it off though!

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• Joe |  March 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am

  
  
  

  http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/real_madrid/es/desarrollo/1098447.html

  You can *kinda* see it on this picture.

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• Anthony |  March 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am

  
  
  

  His forehead is too small for Nick Cage.

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• George |  March 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

  
  
  

  They really must not watch American movies if they though that was Nicholas Cage. The imposter looks nothing like him!

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• edward |  March 10th, 2008 at 10:32 am

  
  
  

  yeah he looks more like jean reno

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• TheItalianConnection |  March 11th, 2008 at 3:21 am

  
  
  

  I saw this by pure chance on Italian TV on Sunday night. It was brilliant. He did look more like NC when the makeup and prosthetics were fresh. I saw the real thing shopping in London. And his English was pretty good, again tailing off towards the end. The funniest thing was that Calabresi is a Roma supporter and complimented Totti’s amazing playing to the Real Madrid guys and asked if he could go and see the Roma players. The Roma manager recognised him but went along with the game. It would never have happened if Capello had been around!!!!!!!!!!!

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• TheItalianConnection |  March 11th, 2008 at 4:36 am

  
  
  

  By the way this is a link to the independent tv channel that produced it – you can see the whole thing.

  http://www.la7.it/approfondimento/dettaglio.asp?prop=italianjob&video=10036

  This channel is doing some good satire. Am wondering what will happen to it if a certain person gets back into power here in Italy. I’m serious.

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