Editions

Kaiser

  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey

  • ISBN: 9781787290259

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 246g

  • RRP: £12.99

Kaiser

  • The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football

1980s Rio de Janeiro.

There’s only one king in this city and he’s got the mullet, swagger and fake ID to prove it.

Introducing Carlos Henrique Raposo, known to all as KAISER.

This guy’s got more front than Copacabana beach. He’s the most loveable of rogues with the most common of dreams: to become a professional footballer. And he isn’t about to let trivial details like talent and achievement stand in his way. . . not when he has so many other ways to get what he wants.

In one of the most remarkable football stories ever told, Kaiser graduates from abandoned slumdog to star striker, dressing-room fixer, superstar party host and inexhaustible lover.

And all without kicking a ball.

He’s not just the king… he’s the Kaiser.

  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey

  • ISBN: 9781787290259

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 246g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • "Raposo's story is brought to life in Rob Smyth's brilliant Kaiser!…a book that exhibits all the verve and skill that its subject never could"

    Nooruddean Choudry, Joe.co.uk

  • "[An] almost unbelievable biography"

    Ben East, Observer

  • "Both hilarious and unbelievable, Kaiser! is a preposterously good football read"

    FourFourTwo

  • "Smyth does a solid job of showing how Raposo’s unlikely path might have been smoothed by the chaotic nature of Brazillian football at the time…and the vagaries of the pre-social media world"

    Paul Rees, When Saturday Comes

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About the Author

Rob Smyth

Robin Smith (Author) Robin Smith was born in apartheid South Africa, but qualified to play for England on account of his British parents. Smith made his Test debut against West Indies in 1988 and looked instantly at home on the big stage. He played 62 Tests, scoring over 4000 runs at an average of 43.67, and is remembered as one of England’s greatest ever players of fast bowling. He also made the then highest score by an England batsman in a one-day international, hitting a spectacular 167 not out against Australia in 1993 and setting a record that stood for 23 years. In retirement, he has settled in Perth, Western Australia, but he remains a club hero at his career-long county, Hampshire. Rob Smyth (Author) Rob Smyth has worked on the Guardian sports desk since 2004 and has written or edited ten books, including Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football. He has also worked for Manchester United, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, ITV, Sports Illustrated and FourFourTwo.

Rob Smyth

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