The resurrection of Martín Cauteruccio: from cancellation in Tevez’s Rojo to top scorer in the world in 2024

Football gives revenge, no matter when it happens. If Martín Cauteruccio knows it, he has a dream start to the season in Peru’s League 1. For that long? If yours fourteen goals in six games the matches played make him the player who has scored the most goals in the world this year.

What about Caute is surprising. Because he is 36 years old and because, when he seemed to have entered the final phase of his career, he finds his strength again and surpasses world-class scorers such as Haaland, Mbappé or Lautaro Martínez himself who, despite having 22 goals and being Inter’s top scorer In Serie A has only scored 7 goals this year.

Martín Cauteruccio arrived at Sporting Cristal following Carlos Tévez’s controversial departure from Independiente. On the first date of the local tournament against ADT he debuted with a hat-trick, becoming the figure of his team and establishing himself as number 9 of the beer team.

In the on the second date he repeated his good performance with a brace against the Boys, then a brace against Cienciano and another hat-trick on the third matchday against Chankas, he also scored in the Copa Libertadores against the Bolivian Semper Pronti. In the last round of the Inca League, he surprised with another hat-trick, becoming the cover locally and trending on social networks internationally.

Cauteruccio’s statistics say that his purchase at Sporting Cristal is a complete success; The club had struggled in recent seasons to find a striker and the lack of goals was the Achilles’ heel of the team led by Brazilian Ederson Moreira. The final 9 who had an acceptable performance was Emanuel Herrera.

However, what is most impressive is that his numbers place him first in the world top scorers in 2024, surpassing elite strikers such as Erling Haaland, Mbappé and Lautaro Martínez himself. He averages 2.3 goals per game and is obviously “the best reinforcement of the year” for the Peruvian press.

The passage of Cauteruccio through San Lorenzo is the make evident of his careera: He scored 42 goals in 114 games played and became champion of the Copa Libertadores in 2014. He was also champion at Cruz Azul in the 2018-2019 season, where he was top scorer of the inaugural tournament, and in December 2022 he organized his I arrive at the Independent.

Caute played 38 matches and scored 12 goals for Rojo. After a good first phase, he contracted salmonella and was left without training for several weeks. From that moment on he no longer had a chance in El Rojo. The clearest example of how his second half was is that his last goal was in July 2023, in the 1-0 against Huracán.

The footballer’s departure ended in conflict and he is now being sued by Independiente for five million dollars for signing for free with Sporting Cristal.

“The player left declaring himself fired for non-payment, which did not happen, Independiente agreed. Then we will take legal action,” said Independiente’s general secretary.

In the last few hours, while breaking the nets in Peru, the attacker responded to Independiente’s requests and demanded more than two hundred million pesos (exactly 210,952,450 dollars).