Meet the professional football-playing cocaine kingpin as he flees authorities under multiple aliases as a wanted criminal who uses his wealth to buy teams and stadiums.

Sebastian Marset always wanted to play football: when he was young, while working at a gas station, he spent his entire salary on a David Beckham track jacket.

Marset and his friends grew up playing in the streets, making goals out of stones and using markers to write numbers on their backs.

But since he was a semi-professional footballer, it was clear that he did not have the qualities necessary to continue his career.

It was clear to some that Marset’s desire to play football was motivated by money, having been seen by friends walking home from nightclubs because he could not afford to take the bus after rubbing shoulders with the wealthiest members of society.

Instead, the Uruguayan turned to a life of crime, where he attempted to cultivate the nickname “King of the South.”

His first interactions with the Monteviedo underworld were actually quite minor, as reported by the Washington Post.

He was arrested for possession of stolen property at age 18 and for drug possession a year later.

But it wasn’t long before he was entrusted with much more: at age 22, Marset took a job as a receptionist for a shipment of marijuana – a job usually assigned to a team of men but which had earned the trust of traffickers .

But the police had been notified and Marset found himself assailed by police officers, where he immediately went, where a police officer recalled him as being astute and respectful.

After taking his photo, one of the officers recalls telling a colleague “this guy is going to be a big problem for us one day.”

It wouldn’t be long before his worries seemed to become a reality, as Marset left prison in 2018, aged 27, with a series of criminal contacts.

He has managed to establish links with Brazilian and Italian organized crime networks and it will not be long before he heads to Paraguay to build his empire.

It was there that he formed his first pseudonym, under the name of Gabriel de Souza Beumer.

In 2021, Marset made his first foray into football, where he showed up at Deportivo Capiata, announcing himself as a new signing in his silver Lamborghini.

There, he made a deal with his teammates that he would pay them thousands of dollars on top of their current contracts for each victory.

The only problem was that Marset had paid for his starting place – wearing a number 10 jersey that his performances would not be up to par as Capiata struggled to win games.

Capiata was the pride of the Asunción suburbs, with the club having claimed the Boca Juniors title in 2014.

But the following years were difficult for Capiata, who was relegated to the Paraguayan second division.

After arriving in 2021, Marset began funding improvements for the team, there were new televisions, physical therapy beds and better food in the cafeteria.

Although not officially listed as an owner, investigators say he was pouring money into the club and taking a portion of its earnings, Marset was laundering money through Capiata.

Head coach Jorge Nunez had no intention of starting the drug lord, until the players surrounded the boss and insisted that Marset had to play.

“I kept asking myself, ‘Who is this guy?’ » Nuñez said, adding: “I had an obligation to win, otherwise they would fire me.”

“But it wasn’t the same for him. He was just having fun.

Marset seemed relatively unmoved about the potential to raise his profile by playing professional football, until May 2021, when he learned that agents were trying to track him down.

His training with Capiata stopped and his name was quickly removed from the team. Even though none of his teammates in Paraguay heard from him, Marset didn’t stop playing football.

After his failure, it was revealed in 2023 that the drug lord was now living in Bolivia and that same year he allegedly purchased Los Leones El Torno FC.

Only this time, Marset was following in the footsteps of his idol, he finally wore the number 23, made famous by David Beckham during his years at Real Madrid.

After speaking to Canal 4, Marset appears to have gone underground again, surrounded by the authorities.