:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/RG5OR2C7AFF2HA5YBJLHMI4U2Q.jpg "He was better than Buffon but ended up addicted to cocaine and convicted of drug trafficking: the sad story of Mateo Caterini 1")
His sporting qualities were enough to develop a fantastic career, maybe he could have won trophies in big teams and been more than Gianluigi Buffon in the Italy national team, mainly because he was once at youth level. But the former footballer Marc-Catherine sentenced on Monday to one year and six months in prisonsuspended, for drug trafficking, resistance to a public official and injuriesas the newspaper reports The messenger.
Katherinewho trained as a player in the lower categories of AS Roma and was runners-up in Europe Under-16 with Italy as team-mates Francesco Toti there Gigi Buffon, he has not finished becoming the star he was referring to. He worked as a surveyor and insurance producer, but had to deal with his cocaine addiction and was first arrested on June 2, 2022.
On this occasion, he was surprised by two plainclothes agents in the district of Quarticciolo when he tried to smuggle drugs in small quantities in the Italian capital and, in the words of Marc-Catherinehe resorted to the sale of narcotics to cover only the cost of his own doses.
“At that time, I was in a state of turmoil and, fearing see the officer who arrested me a month beforeI instinctively had the reaction to run away. While running away, I tripped several times until I found myself on the ground. At that moment, they grabbed me but I struggled jerkily to be able to free myself and I fled. Then I realized that they weren’t chasing me anymore and that I had lost my wallet with my papers.so that was probably enough to identify me. My life moved to the drug dealing areas of Romelike San Basilio, Tor Bella Monaca, Quarticciolo, and as a regular consumer I ended up selling it. I was selling the minimum doses needed to be able to maintain mine“, said Katherine during the hearing.
His teenage life was very different. He was one of the great gems of youth Azure in the early 90s, had as a substitute Gigi Buffon, currently one of the most important players in the history of Italian football. He seemed destined for success after this silver medal in the European Under-16 Championship and after having conquered with the AS Roma he Scudetto studentsthere Italian Spring Cup and an international tournament in Paris.
Everything collapsed with a slight injury that caused him to lose his position with buffon and what made that AS Roma He will not renew his contract. He did not want to accept a proposal from the club to go on loan to Tricase of Puglia Since D-Series, and from that moment, nothing was like before. His short career was recorded in a documentary by Paolo Geremei titled “Zero One Zero” released in 2013, where he recounts his brief career in football with two other former promises of the capital’s youth team (Andrea Giulii Capponi and Daniele Rossi).
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