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"Belly" with fake Felipão makes headlines around the world

The publication of a chat with a lookalike of the Brazilian national team coach by Mario Sergio Conti, a columnist for Folha and Globo, which has already become an international joke on the Eurosport website, was also the subject of a BBC international publication, under the translated title: "Brazil confused by interview with 'fake Scolari'"

The publication of a chat with a lookalike of the Brazilian national team coach by Mario Sergio Conti, a columnist for Folha and Globo, which has even become an international joke on the Eurosport website, was also the subject of a BBC international publication, under the translated title: "Brazil confused by interview with 'fake Scolari'" (Photo: Roberta Namour)

247 – The "blunder" of the year committed by Mario Sergio Conti, currently a presenter on Globonews and a columnist for the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and Globo, has had repercussions around the world (read more here).

He published a fake interview with Luiz Felipe Scolari after meeting a lookalike of the coach on a plane. The incident, which has already become an international joke, even being reported on the Eurosport website, was also the subject of a BBC international publication, under the translated title: "Brazil confused by interview with 'fake Scolari'" (read here).

Vladimir Palomo spoke with columnist Mario Sergio Conti as if he were Felipão himself, in a chat recorded by the journalist in his column published in the online versions of the newspapers O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo.