Hernán Castro

Right Midfielder - Talleres U18
10 Mar 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Hernán Castro

165 Edition

The Talleres Herald

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Talleres

Beaten 0‑4 by Newell's Old Boys, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

Talleres are in real trouble now

Position 13, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Luis Sequeira has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Talleres they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A row about effort at Talleres

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kevin Mantilla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Talleres

Malcom Braida 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kevin Mantilla

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kevin Mantilla, and the manager let it.

Squad

Talleres count the cost of losing Hernán Castro

42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Talleres

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Diego Barrera's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The Talleres Herald

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Giovanni Baroni takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

The run at home goes on for Talleres

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Talleres

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Talleres see off Platense

Three points for Talleres, 3‑1 the final word against Platense in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

One of our own: Ezequiel González joins the Talleres first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ezequiel González is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Talleres promote Hernán Castro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hernán Castro has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Luis Alberto Ponce joins the Talleres first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Alberto Ponce is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Leonardo Figueroa steps up from the Talleres academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Figueroa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Emanuel Reynoso 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.

In brief