It emerged in River Plate of Uruguay, Cholo Simeone’s team fought with Manchester United and Benfica to have him, but everything changed: he was arrested for carrying a pistol with various ammunition.
What happens when fame comes too soon? The life of Nicolás Schiappacasse made a resounding change in recent weeks. The Uruguayan footballer, 23 years old, debuted at the age of 15 in River Plate of Uruguay, his future was very promising, so much so that the Atletico Madrid from Diego Pablo Simeon he fought with Manchester United and Benfica to get their services. Today, far removed from that reality, He is in prison where he will have to serve a 90-day preventive sentence, after being arrested on January 26 when he was going to see the classic charrúa between Peñarol and Nacional with a 9-millimeter pistol with various ammunition.
Premature debut and signing for Atlético Madrid: the arrival of Nicolás Schiappacasse in Europe
His football career began in the Club Atlético River Plate from Uruguay at the age of 15. His future was so promising that he burned stages at an enviable level for the rest of the players of his generation. With his National Team he was also a fixture in the lower teams and his destiny was in Europe. Before landing on the Atletico Madrid, teams like the Manchester United and Benfica They also noticed him.
“He was fast, elegant, he hit it well, he could play in various positions… but he had the brain of a ten-year-old and had to be treated as such. To motivate him we put challenges”, explained to the Spanish newspaper Marca, who was then one of those responsible for the Colchonero Academy.
in 2016 he came to the rojiblanca quarry, but during the four years he was in Madrid he failed to debut with the first team. After several assignments, including the Lightning Majadahonda, Parma and Famalicao, Atleti sold it to Sassuolo, an institution that a year ago ceded it to Peñarol.
The return of Nicolás Schiappacasse to Uruguay: “The beginning of the end”
Just as he did with the clubs, he also repeatedly changed representatives. One of the last to manage his career on the old continent was Santiago Castelló, from the Eleven Talent Group agency, who was very clear that the return to his homeland was going to be the kickoff for Nicolás’s professional career to begin. to be diluted: “It was clear that if he went back to Uruguay, that was going to be the beginning of his end.”
And unfortunately, he was right. Is that last january 26, during a police control carried out on the Interbalnearia Route, the security forces’ device was effectively for the friendly that Penarol and National, eternal rivals, were going to play hours later in the town of Maldonado, about 130 kilometers from Montevideo. When stopping and searching one of the vehicles, a firearm was seized, in addition to ammunition, and its four occupants were arrested.
It soon became known that one of them was Schiappacasse, that could not play due to injury but, on loan from the Italian Sassuolo, currently plays for Manya. The vehicle was driven by another 22-year-old with a criminal record, and in addition to the footballer, two women aged 22 and 18 were accompanying him.
Schiappacasse was sent to preventive detention as a precautionary measure for 90 days, after being charged with arms trafficking and illegal possession. The investigation carried out by the prosecutor Ana Dean has confirmed in just a few days that the athlete bought pistols on several occasions without the corresponding authorization and that he even took them to soccer games. As evidence, numerous photographs and messages from the soccer player’s cell phone were harvested. “A well-known military friend of mom wants to sell it to me, he leaves it to me for a thousand I think”, one of them prayed.
Schiappacasse himself stated that the weapon he was carrying, loaded and hidden in his clothes, was for the members of the Peñarol brava gang. It is worth noting that so far this year there have already been several violent events linked to the ultra groups of Peñarol and Nacional, because in fact in different incidents a fan of each team has already died. In that environment, Schiappacasse, who is now awaiting trial, handled himself with weapons. Unless a dribble of fate prevents him, everything points to Nicolás playing his next game away from the green grass.
