But it was Ajax Orlando Prospects in Florida - a kids team when he was just 16 in 2003.

The club - an academy-style affiliate of the Eredivisie side - shut its doors in 2006, four years BEFORE Rosales's fake CV claimed he joined the real Dutch side in Amsterdam.

Today he admitted: "There is a huge misunderstanding. My former agent exaggerated to an extreme..."

Rosales - real name Dexter Rosa Monsalve - spoke exclusively to au.fourfourtwo.com from his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he has been laying low since the storm broke.

He was due to fly to Adelaide this week for a trial with Reds coach John Kosmina after he appeared to be an undiscovered sensation, with an amazing record in the reserves for River Plate in Argentina and Ajax in Holland.

An Achilles tendon injury was said to have ended his deal in Holland and he'd snubbed overtures from Valencia to recover from surgery and look for a new club elsewhere.

In reality though, Monsalve has never played professional football.

"Never got the opportunity," he said today. "Have I trained with these clubs? Yes, and I was impressive!

"Most of it was because I knew many connections in Miami and I travel and actually squeeze myself in to playing with big clubs just to have the experience, even though I never took money from any club.

"But then I noticed I was as good or even better than some of these 'professionals'.

"As a matter of fact, three weeks ago I played with Edgar Davids in Miami - we played at an indoor soccer cage in Brickell."

Colombian-American Monsalve blamed his elusive agent "Dimitri Kascovic" for the mess and said he was unaware the agent was not FIFA-registered.

He insisted the agent did exist despite being unknown outside of Monsalve's fake CV. Monsalve also moonlights as a DJ and had an agent Christopher Kascovic for that, but said the two were unrelated and the unusual surname was just a coincidence.

"I believe my agent did things to show me off to a good club so that my game will speak for itself," Monsalve said.

"My former agent does exist - that he is not registered with FIFA, I don't know. When you're a player, you truly don't ask for someone's credentials.

"He exploited me with some false pretences. He thought he could get me a shot at a good club so I could show my  talent. Not any club will take a look at a player just like that.

"It was wrong from his side and mine for allowing it to happen to an extreme. I am a footballer and only my game will speak for itself."

Monsalve admitted he was arrested and charged with grand theft auto and credit card fraud five years ago but insisted it was a one-off.

"I took a car for a joyride and I was charged with GTA, and I bought a couple of things at a gas station with his credit card," he confessed.

"To be honest, I hated that guy, so while playing football, I took his keys and parked the car somewhere else.

"But I do admit it was wrong and childish."

He said he changed his football name to Dexter Rosales because he got stick as a child as Rosa means 'flower' in Spanish.

"Dexter Rosales was given to me in Argentina when some of the kids said that my name was weak so I changed it so it sounded cool," he said.

"It's like Ronaldinho or Gaucho, or many footballers who don't like their name and they put a different name."

Despite the furore over his faked credentials, Monsalve still hopes to trial at Adelaide and take them to glory in their Asian Champions League campaign.

He added: "I never intended to do anything wrong to Adelaide United. If anything I was determined to win that Asian Champions League.

"I have nothing to hide and I will go to Adelaide and pay my way to try out - and let my game speak peacefully.

"I want to apologise to Kosmina, Lou Nesci and Adelaide. My intention was to finally be disciplined and show my skills on the pitch and the Asian Championship.

"And do it well...never asking for a single dime."