One random anecdote a day
In September 2010, Bahrain's football federation announced a friendly match against Togo. A team turned up wearing Togo kits, played the match, lost 3-0, and everyone went home. There was just one problem: the Togolese Football Federation had no idea the match had happened. A fraudster had assembled a group of random players, claimed they were Togo's national team, and arranged the entire fixture. Not a single player who took the field that day was actually a member of Togo's squad. An entirely fake national team had played an official international friendly against a real country, and nobody noticed until after the final whistle.
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