Alessandro Zarrelli

Alessandro "Alex" Zarrelli1 was an Italian amateur footballer who featured on a 2006 Sky TV documentary called Super Fakes in the United Kingdom where he had attempted to dupe several professional football teams into signing him as a player by sending faxes claiming to be a member of the Italian Football Federation. A midfielder, he later played semi-professionally for a number of British non-League clubs, most notably Northwich Victoria and Queen's Park. He died on 21 November 2018 after a car crash on the A505 road in Cambridgeshire.