Football gives revenge, no matter when it happens.
If Martín Cauteruccio knows, he has a dream start to the season in Peru's League 1.
For that much?
Yes. His
fourteen goals in six games
played make him the player who has scored the most goals in the world so far this year.
What about Caute is surprising.
Because he is 36 years old and because, when he seemed to start the final stretch of his career, he regains his strength and surpasses world-class scorers like Haaland, Mbappé or Lautaro Martínez himself who, despite having 22 goals and being Inter's top scorer In Serie A, this year he only scored 7 goals.
Martín Cauteruccio arrived at Sporting Cristal after a controversial departure from Carlos Tévez's Independiente.
On date 1 of the local tournament against ADT he debuted with a hat-trick, being the figure of his team and establishing himself as number 9 of the beer team.
Martín Cauteruccio's shirt in Sporting Cristal of Peru/ Account X: Martín Cauteruccio
On the
second date he repeated his good performance with two goals against Boys
, then a double against Cienciano and again a hat-trick on date 3 against Chankas, he also scored in the Copa Libertadores against the Bolivian Always Ready.
On the last date of the Inca League, he surprised with another hat-trick, being the cover at the local level and trending on social networks internationally.
Cauteruccio's statistics show that his signing to Sporting Cristal is a complete success;
The club had had problems in recent seasons finding a striker and the lack of goals was the Achilles heel in the team led by Brazilian Ederson Moreira.
The last 9 that had an acceptable performance was Emanuel Herrera.
Martín Cauteruccio 🇺🇾 scored another HAT-TRICK with Sporting Cristal
⚽ 13 GOALS IN 5 GAMESpic.twitter.com/Bdp6nh6Xau
— Punto y Balón (@puntoybalon) February 25, 2024
However, what is most striking is that his numbers position him as first in the ranking of scorers in the world in 2024, surpassing elite forwards such as Erling Haaland, Mbappé and Lautaro Martínez himself.
His average is 2.3 goals per game and obviously "the best reinforcement of the year" for the Peruvian press.
Cauteruccio's time at San Lorenzo is the
highlight
of his career
: he scored 42 goals in 114 games played and became champion of the Copa Libertadores in 2014. He was also champion in Cruz Azul in the 2018-2019 season, where he was the highest scorer of the opening tournament, and in December 2022 he arranged his arrival at Independiente.
Caute played 38 games and scored 12 goals for Rojo.
After a good first stage, he contracted salmonella and was without training for several weeks.
From then on, he no longer had a chance in El Rojo.
The clearest example of what his second half was like is that his last goal was in July 2023, in a 1-0 draw against Huracán.
The footballer's departure ended in conflict and now he was sued by Independiente for five million dollars for having signed freely with Sporting Cristal.
"The player left declaring himself fired for lack of payment, which did not happen, Independiente complied. Then, we will initiate legal action," said the general secretary of Independiente.
In the last few hours, while breaking networks in Peru, the forward responded to Independiente's claim and demanded more than two hundred million pesos (exactly $210,952,450)