We tracked him down to Fort Lauderdale in Florida where he is better known as Dexter Rosa Monsalve who works as an occasional DJ, touring the country playing late night gigs at obscure venues.

The Colombian-American also has another secret though - five years ago, he was arrested by police and charged with a series of offences including car theft, criminal mischief...and fraud.

When he was just 20 years old in Cape Canaveral, Florida, he was arrested on a string of charges including credit card fraud after stealing a car for a joy-ride during a football match.

But at the time he was actually being charged by police in the US, his CV claimed he was in Argentina, ripping it up in the River Plate reserves.

According to the blockbuster CV sent round clubs including Adelaide United, he was a gun striker for the legendary side, notching up 26 goals and 12 assists in just 32 games.

However his success there was as much a myth as his sensational stint in Ajax reserves where his CV said he had scored  21 goals and set up another nine in just 17 matches.

Fake FIFA agent Dimitri Kascovic touted his impressive resume around clubs - and the blockbuster stats won him a trial at Adelaide United after attracting the attention of an Australian agent, Lou Nesci.

Alarm bells had already rung a month earlier when he was linked with a trial at Western Sydney Wanderers but they wisely pulled the plug despite an elaborate info pack of impressive stats, medical reports and a powerpoint presentation.

Videos of him cutting a swathe through the opposition turned out to be of another player with a similar name - Mauro Rosales - and were filmed years before Rosales was ever supposed to be at Ajax.

The only online references to "Dexter Rosales" were self-created websites designed to corroborate the fantasy and feature prominently in any Google search.

Despite that, Adelaide still offered him a trial after he offered to pay his own way...but he never turned up.

On his DJ listing, he claims to have a familiar-sounding manager, Christopher Kascovic, to handle his bookings - but he had very few engagements, and only has two mixes available online.

He told au.fourfourtwo.com today that DJ'ing was his hobby and his love of the nightlife was one of the key reasons he's never got a break as a professional footballer.

However he still insisted: "Most of my bio is true - just that my former agent exaggerated to an extreme."