Twin brothers were arrested for "fighting on behalf of others"? The "cheated" club faces a penalty of relegation

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2024-05-14 11:35Posted on the official account of Guangdong Football News

Reporter Han Bing reported on May 11 that Romanian journalist Daniel Sendrey broke the news on social media: The senior management of the Dynamo Bucharest Club of the Romanian First Division seriously suspects that Guinea-Bissau international Edgar Yee, who joined in February this year, may let his twin brother Edlino impostor play! The reason for the suspicion is that the team's "Edgar Yee" only speaks Portuguese, but the real Edgar Yeh has played in Spain, France, Turkey and the Netherlands, and his English skills are completely fine. Such a "cheating" scandal is really bizarre, and as soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of Romania and even the world football community.

As early as the beginning of May, the Romanian media identified the problem: Edgar Yer, one of the highest-paid players in the Dynamo squad (€216,000 a year), clearly did not match his resume with the Ligue 1, Turkish Super League, Eredivisie giants and Portugal international. The team's coach, Kopić, is said to have been deeply disappointed with Edgar's skills when he first attended a training session. Edgar Yeer played the first two games of the league after joining, and was replaced by the coach at half-time in the third game. After that, he sat on the field three times in the first four rounds of the relegation play-offs, and only one substitute appeared for 11 minutes, and the last five rounds of the relegation play-offs did not even enter the squad.

Reporter Luo Shu followed up with a report that the Dynamo club asked the team's "Edgar Yee" to show his driver's license to prove his identity, but the player refused. The Dynamo team is about to participate in the relegation play-offs, and if Edlino's cheating in place of Edgar is true, the eight points obtained by Dynamo in the previous five games he played will be deducted, and the Dynamo club will be directly relegated.

At the moment, Dynamo FC is preparing to conduct a DNA test to determine if there is Edgar Yeer himself in the squad. Former Dynamo player Peterre, who believes the club should not have made such a low-level management mistake, said he had twin brothers in the squad when he played, but everyone could tell the difference between brothers. He also revealed that the lower leagues have the same twin brother cheating. The older brother played in the first half, and the younger brother, who was full of energy, played as the tired older brother in the second half.

Romanian professional league officials said that if DNA tests confirm the impersonation, Edlino Yer's eight points from five games will be deducted and the club will be relegated. But Dynamo could defend themselves against ignorance and perhaps avoid being deducted points. It will be very difficult to prove that the club did not know, unless the twin brothers admit that the impostor was entirely of his own volition. Even so, Dynamo is held accountable for failing to identify registered players.

The 30-year-old Guinea-Bissau international defender Edgar Yee, who and twin brother Edlino both came from the Portuguese sports youth system, Edgar Yee was signed by Barcelona at the age of 18, but then played almost exclusively in the Barcelona B team for the next three seasons, making only one substitute appearance for the Barcelona first team. In the summer of 2017, he joined Ligue 1 giants Lille, then moved to Nantes, Trabzonspor Sport, Feyenoord, Istanbul Valley City and in February this year to Dynamo Bucharest. Edgar Yeh was selected from the Portugal Under-18 national team to the Portuguese national team, reaching the last eight with the Portuguese Olympic team at Rio 2016. In 2021, he opted for naturalization and made his international debut in June 2023.

Edlino's football resume is too far apart from Edgar's, and the two entered the youth team of Sporting Club at the same time, Edlino joined Sporting B in 2013 with a release fee of up to 45 million euros. But he has been playing almost always in Portugal's lower leagues, joining Poland's fifth division side Tuukhovia from Portugal's fourth-tier side Resende last summer, before being released from his contract earlier this year and out of his job. Compared to Edgar, who has traveled all over France, Turkey, and the Netherlands, Edlino, who has mostly lived in Portugal, can only speak Portuguese, which is very reasonable. But this time, it is likely that he will pay a huge price for legal responsibility because his language skills are worse than that of his twin brothers.

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