A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE contender has appointed the world’s best fantasy football player as a club scout. Rui Marques, who’s accumulated more than £100,000 in winnings playing the fantasy game, has been employed as a scout by Polish side Legia Warsaw. The Portuguese is a former student of economics and has worked with MLS side Sporting […]
A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE contender has appointed the world’s best fantasy football player as a club scout.
Rui Marques, who’s accumulated more than £100,000 in winnings playing the fantasy game, has been employed as a scout by Polish side Legia Warsaw.
The Portuguese is a former student of economics and has worked with MLS side Sporting Kansas City.
Marques told Dream Team: “Last week I was in Scotland for the game against Cyprus. They sent me there to assess some Cyprus players as potential summer signings.”
Marques’ ability to spot talent is, he says, shown by more than just Fantasy Football success.
After a preliminary meeting with Portuguese giants Porto in 2013 came to nothing, he ended up working for Segunda Liga side Estoril Praia.
Marques said: “In the first season, the club signed two players who I included in my final work.
“One of them was sold six months later for a £1million profit.”
This all came from Marques’ success in Fantasy Football tournaments in England and Germany.
He came third in the Daily Mirror‘s 2006 edition of the game before winning in 2010, pocketing £25,000.
He followed it up by joining German newspaper Bild’s version and won £80,0000 after coming first.
And yet, as a child, Marques’ parents pushed him towards a career in economics.
He said: “Fantasy football was my hobby in the background of my career, which was to graduate in economics. That was not my passion, or my biggest talent.”
