Funnily enough, DNA tests would not work either since they are identical twins...

The good twin decides he wants to retire. His less good twin wants to keep playing. They decide to get the less good twin a job masquerading as the good twin in some foreign country where no one knows them. Great story (even if it’s not true).

As a Dinamo fan, some context: 1. The journalist who broke this story, Daniel Sendre, is a bit of a joke at Dinamo today. To us, the rumor lacked substance to begin with because of the source. 2. Florin Prunea is the FORMER Dinamo president. He only really has a ceremonial role in the club nowadays, which mostly consists of him bigging up Dinamo when we win and tearing into them and making bullshit criticisms when we lose. Not a fan of his personally. 3. The story was leaked right before Dinamo's last match of the season against UTA Arad, which would decide whether Dinamo would be relegated to the 2nd tier or not, with other results also needing to go our way for us to not go down (they did). It's very possible that Sendre planned to leak this story before the game to draw attention to himself because everything that has to do with Dinamo gets tons of clicks in Romania, with Dinamo being a very successful and well-supported club. 4. Edgar suffered a knee injury earlier this season and has surgery which left a scar on his knee, so it would have been obvious if it hadn't been Edgar all along. 5. Edgar actually looked decent in the few games he played and even kept a clean sheet at Dinamo, so I don't understand how people can be duped into thinking that a right winger who had played at a much lower standard was playing instead. 6. Even though the story is definitely made up, it is likely that our current club president, Andrei Nicolescu, did actually believe Edelino had been playing for us, given that he's not and has never been a football fan. Yes, that's Romania for you, our club president isn't a football person.

God... Zealand discovered our championship. Wait until he hears about the double teams (2 Steauas and 2 Universitatea Craiovas) and how one Craiova (FCU, not CSU) had 7 managers this past season. We're the new Turkey, except with titles decided in court rooms and seasons starting without anyone knowing all the teams taking part in the championship, only for one team to be eliminated after a few matches into the season and replaced with another one.

There's a bulgarian film with this exact plot. 2 twin-brothers: one talented footballer, the other - lazy gambler party-boy. The player skips town and goes to Sofia to search for a girl he met. The no-good twin pretends to be the player so he can have a transfer and score some money. The kick is - he can not really play football. Both end up in Sofia. Hillarity ensues. The film is a slapstick comedy from the 50s, and it culminates with a Cup Final match and the party-boy finally has to play in it... (the film is Lyubimetz 13 (1958))

Never though i would see the day Dinamo Bucuresti would be talked about on Zealandism

You should definitely make another follow up on Roda JC. They lost 8-1 on aggregate in the first round of the promotion play offs lmao

If Edelino is in Romania in place of Edgar he might not be able to present Edgar's ID because he returned it to Edgar not expecting to need to use it again.

u might be interested in corvinul, a second division team in romania, winning the cup beating top clubs from romania along the way and qualifying for europa league preliminary rounds

Fun Fact: According to Hulk Hogan, he is the biological father to these men. Apparently back in the 90's he flew to wrestle a match in Guinea Bissau whilst in the WWF. Their mum was a massive fan of wrestling and met Hulk backstage...The rest, is history 🙃

I can't wait for Edgar's appearance on Zealandism 😄

Edgar Ié was a Portuguese international (1 cap for Portugal). Now became a international player for Guinea-Bissau and already has 5 caps.

Welcome to Uniwersum Polskiej Piłki, Zealand! I am glad that you have finally come home. Looking at your taste on green channel, lots of topics you could tackle and record your take are awaiting. As you spotted, bloke was in polish lower league, like 3rd tier or sth, so I've already heard about it. Check Few weeks ago they cuffed 55 y/o human being PLAYING as a goalkeeper in women's team. There were already warrants for him, 2 under other female names ( one name - Joanna - to be precise but two different surnames) and at least one under name Andrzej. Guy was a star before football, even had picture with former President!

for those who are asking about identical twin DNA, they are identical at conception, but small variations and changes occur over the years.

Edgar Ié was a bargain beast back in the day on FM, had him with multiple clubs over a few versions of the game! What a strange story..

But, why DNA test, they are identical twins so they have identical DNA... I am confused.

I was half expecting to see a video about Corvinul winning the Romanian cup, but not something about Dinamo. For context, they're a second league team that is not allowed promotional to the first league and they have a chance of playing in the Europa League next season.

It happened in Scotland in the 90's. Dundee United signed a player from I think Argentina, based in video footage of him and then found out it was his brother they signed. Not exactly the same situation but close enough

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Bash'em brothers in real life

I don't usually comment on KZfaq videos but, as a Portuguese, I've got to say this: 2:58 your "taça de Portugal" pronunciation is not bad, at all! Your first attempt was pretty bad but the second one was actually pretty good. Congrats, Zealand! Love from Portugal

I love your turtle! what is he called?

Twin magic works everytime

Imagine Fábio and Rafael Da Silva just switched places one day and nobody noticed

If i expected a video about Romanian football , i expected to talk about Corvinu ,or the Steaua / FCSB scandal ,but not Dinamo Lol

Can you do a video on the Lassana Diarra lawsuit and the possible ramifications for the global transfer market?

I so want this to be true. It's the WWE twin switch in real life...

Can you make a video about Corvinul Hunedoara a 2nd tier team who just won the Romanian Cup for the first time in their history, who can't legally promote to the first Romanian tier this season due to some supid rule, fun fact Corvinul and Wisla Krakow from Poland are the only 2 team from the 2nd tier to won thir countries cup, along the long competition they have defeated Romanian giants CFR Cluj (who last year beat Slavia Prague twice in UECL and Celtic), quitee the underdog story if you ask me.

This club got to a European cup 1 final in 1984 (lost to Liverpool)😮 how the mighty have fallen.

Why tho what would be the gain?

I always used to try sign him from Barca 😂

I thot fingerprints are the better identification than DNA..

Edgar Ie said he only spoke Portugese in an interview with Feyenoord Media so the language thing can be easily disproven

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I don't know how things work in Romania, but I would assume that he already needed to provide some form of identification when he joined the team so it seems weird they would ask for his drivers license later on. I'm also wondering what they would compare the dna to. Do they just have a database with the dna of every player?

Regular DNA testing won't show any differences between identical twins. Full sequencing would be needed, which is as thorough as it gets for DNA testing. With that in mind, full DNA sequence of identical twins should also appear identical in theory, but random mutations can make it such that a tiny fraction of their DNA is not identical. A study of 381 pairs of twins found that 39 pairs shared every single base pair, so 100.00% identical DNA. On average the twins differed by 5.2 base pairs out of roughly 3 billion, so 99.9999998% identical on average. And 38 pairs of twins had DNA sequences differing by more than 100 base pairs, so 'only' 99.999997% identical. So roughly 10% of identical twins were truly identical. Another 10% were as 'little' as 99.999997% identical, and the rest were somewhere between. They should have different fingerprints and eyes though, so fingerprinting and iris or retinal scanning can tell them apart.

A dna test tells you nothing if their identical twins

No need for a dna test which will most likely be inconclusive anyway. Fingerprints and injury records should be a better way of confirming identities

Dutch guy here, I just watched an interview about him and partially with him in his Feyenoord period.... And his teammates literally state that he can only speak Portuguese..... So...... There's that

Ahhh... Romania

Edgar hasn't posted anything about Bucharest. It's like he was never there. Sus

Should make a video on the current events in the a league, multiple players arrested at their homes after reports of match fixing in the finals.

didn't to get into EU they need to give their fingerprint? in this case the brothers should be distinguishable

Pulled a SAF without SAF

What use would be a DNA test? Such a test would tell zip all on its own You need something to compare it to, and I hardly think they have some example of "his" old DNA stored, just in case. So whether or not they're twins doesn't even come into play.

I mean this is a text book case of fraud. If one speaks english and the other doesn't..than that's kind of easy to prove lol. Can't wait for the movie Twins, Part 2 to come out, with Lebron James and Dave Chappelle playing the brothers. (ala Devito/Schwarzenegger)

Oddly enough, I know one of the biggest Romanian sports journalists. I guess it’s time to ask him what’s up…

Dinamo Bucuresti is facing relegation? Weren’t they the best Romanian team 5-10 years ago? I remember seeing them play Champions League or Europa League before.

Always suspected Arsenal bought the wrong Portuguese Nuno Tavares from Sporting CP😂 Did they want to buy the other Portuguese RB called Nuno Tavares(Mendes), who later moved to PSG?

I don't get the motivation though, why would he send his twin unless he didn't want to play football anymore and his twin did.

Could the team solve this problem by signing his brother just in case

Identical twins have the same DNA how is that going to even prove anything?

WHAT?

Why don’t they buy Edelino so that they have both? He’s a free agent as well

I know a guy the actually married her wife's twin sister because at the time she was living abroad and couldn't show up 😂

That's fake, Edgar ie is the player over there.

How can they do a DNA test? Identical twins have identical DNA lol

Why is everyone talking about drivers license and DNA when clearly the things to ask for are passport and fingerprints

of course its romania 😭

So did the journalist just make it all up for fame? That seems really risky Also, I just always assumed that any team with "Dinamo" in their name was always at/near the top of their league

I don’t think Dinamo can be worried about not becoming a laughing stock, they’ve been one for a loooong time.

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Its fake

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fake news

saying transfermarkt instead of transfermarket lowkey triggers me

Peep Frogiola would not stoop to this type of tactic. He's a better coach than any of us ever would be.