The Talleres Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Talleres
Federico Versaci was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Talleres against Godoy Cruz
0‑2 to Godoy Cruz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Maxi joins the Talleres first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maxi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Juan Carlos Muñoz steps up from the Talleres academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Carlos Muñoz 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Joaquín Acosta joins the Talleres first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joaquín Acosta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Talleres promote Gael Vázquez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gael Vázquez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Talleres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eugenio Olivera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Malvacio
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Talleres are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Roberto Ponce: “No excuses”
- Squad Leonel Barrios has seen what the next man earns
- The dugout Federico Ulayar knocks on the manager's door