From promise from Argentine football to a lifted chain: what happened to Lautaro Carrachino

Argentine football is the cradle of many stars. However, there are many soccer players who in inferior or their early years in the highest category were outlined as great promises, but for different reasons they have failed to exceed the expectations that were had in them.

This is the case of Lautaro Carrachinoknown as many to be the ‘New Carlos Tevez’, but who, having a complicated environment, ended up imprisoned. Today he is serving a sentence and, due to it, he has no chances of even having a rematch in sport.

The star that was never: Carrachino’s passage through Argentine football

Born in Ciudad Evita, He arrived in San Lorenzo in 2006 to be part of the club’s children. There was no one to deny that it was the next Argentine crack every time they saw him dazzle in the playing fields. Even, with the age of seventh division, it already integrated the reserve division.

He quickly began to compare with Carlitos Tevez, due to similar contexts. Of humble neighborhoods and families of few resources, even Adrián Ruocco, representative and friend of Apache, was interested in himalthough once he met him they say they noticed that they were not going to have the same destination.

For 2016, after Avoid being imprisoned for having participated in a band fight in Villegaswhich ended with a deceased, the first professional contract would arrive by the club. Edgardo Bauza, coach of San Lorenzo’s first team, noticed that Carrachino was born to play football. But his surroundings did not help him at all.

Training began to be missingrumors arrived at the club that went a lot at night and They decided to give it to Almagro in 2018but had no remarkable performance. Just some games in first and once his assignment culminated, the cyclone gave up trying to progress and left it without a contract.

All your life behind bars: condemned to life imprisonment

The bad board that moved him away from football finished burying any dream. He was already of legal age and was not San Lorenzo to protect him, so instead of devoting himself to sport and finding revenge, He joined a drug band.

The monoblocks of Villegas in Ciudad Evita were the place where everything was over. There happened the fact that his life changed forever, since, in a usurpation of an apartment, where they tried to establish a bunker for sale of drugs, He was accused of another member of the group of being co -authors of the crime of aggravated homicide For the premeditated contest of two or more people, in addition to the use of firearms.

The witnesses identified Carrachino, ensuring that he and another member of the band murdered a shot to another person. After 10 months fugitive, Police found him and was convicted. The conviction was firm: life imprisonment And he is in compliance, leaving those years in football behind since he will be a lifetime behind bars.