Simón Monterroza

Defensive Midfielder - Talleres U20
21 Oct 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Simón Monterroza

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The Talleres Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Simón Monterroza breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Emiliano Daghero at 20 — 7.87

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Emiliano Daghero did not need any: 7.87, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Only the photograph left for Cristian Ludueña

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cristian Ludueña will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Talleres the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Talleres

Franco Cristaldo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Matías Galarza falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rick

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Talleres and Independiente take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Giovanni Baroni runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Matías Galarza asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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Player ratings

Diego Valoyes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A fracture rules Simón Monterroza out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Talleres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Laureano Martínez keeps Talleres in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Tobol come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Talleres did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words exchanged at Talleres

Franco Cristaldo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Talleres training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Galarza is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Talleres agree a free transfer for José Canale

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Match

Newell's Old Boys take the points off Talleres

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Loan watch

10 goals on loan for Nahuel Bustos

7 appearances at Santa Fe and the goals keep coming. Talleres are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief