{"id":142857,"date":"2018-06-18T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/london-sixth-former-plays-pogbas-double\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:00:59","slug":"london-sixth-former-plays-pogbas-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/london-sixth-former-plays-pogbas-double\/","title":{"rendered":"London sixth-former plays Pogba&#8217;s double"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Pogba\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/3579\/production\/_102098631_pogba2.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      Efeme Temienor (right) took a selfie with Paul Pogba, as he appeared as the footballer in an advert                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A sixth-former from south London has been used as a body double for France&#039;s World Cup star Paul Pogba.<\/p>\n<p>Efeme Temienor had previously been told by his friends and family how much he looked like the footballer.<\/p>\n<p>But the resemblance proved to be unexpectedly valuable, with Efeme being paid to stand in for Pogba in an Adidas advert.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old is going to use his fee to help fund his ambition to go to university.<\/p>\n<p>Efeme, a keen footballer himself, is studying at Christ the King Sixth Form, a Catholic college with several campuses across south London.<\/p>\n<h2>&#039;Even my mum said I looked like him&#039;<\/h2>\n<p>In an unlikely collision of different worlds, he was hired to go to Manchester and then Madrid to film the advert, where he also met Pogba himself.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had tried not to be &quot;star-struck and overwhelmed&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Efeme was also keen to use the experience and the pay as a stepping stone for his career.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I knew I needed to make something out of this. I didn&#039;t want it to just be a case of &#039;I&#039;ve done this,&#039;&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But this chance to take part in the advert nearly did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>He had initially been approached by an advertising agency to play Pogba the year before.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Even my mum said I looked a lot like him,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Efeme&#039;s father had made him turn down the filming so he could focus on his GCSEs.<\/p>\n<p>With the World Cup looming, the chance came around again and he found himself an unlikely star in his college, when people began seeing the advert.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everyone looks at me. I think people hadn&#039;t really believed me when I talked about the ad.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Efeme Temienor (right) took a selfie with Paul Pogba, as he appeared as the footballer in an advert A sixth-former from south London has been used as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}