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29th Jun 2015

Video: Xherdan Shaqiri dresses up as old coach to dupe youth team

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The kids started smelling a rat when he began pinging 40-yard crossfield passes

Everybody loves a good undercover prank and Inter Milan star Xherdan Shaqiri’s old man ensemble certainly had this youth team going.

The Swiss star arrived at a local club to advise the youngsters, and was presented as ‘coaching legend Hansueli Strasser’.

He proceeded to put a distinctly unimpressed squad through some gruelling fitness tests before finally beginning to raise eyebrows by smacking diagonal passes and curling free-kicks into the top corner.

Shaqiri finally took removed his disguise and was mobbed by the players and their families.

[h/t 101 Great Goals]

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