Talleres de Escalada has gone 10 games without scoring in the Primera Nacional, a new record in Argentine football history.
“Score a goal” , the famous banner that Ferro fans hung up in 1999 when the matches were passing and the team still hadn’t scored, could appear at any moment on the pitch of Talleres de Remedios de Escalada , whose team has just achieved a new record of ineffectiveness in Argentine football: they have gone 919 minutes, 10 matches, without scoring a goal .
Fourteen rounds of the Primera Nacional tournament have now been played and Talleres is last in Zone B with just six points from one win and three draws. They only scored two goals in a single match, against Agropecuario (2-0) on Matchday 4. They have not scored since. Thus, against Colón de Santa Fe on Monday night, they surpassed the two previous worst records : Ferro's 874 minutes in the First Division in 1999 and Central Ballester's 884 minutes in the First D in 2023. All three clubs of railway origin have missed the goal-scoring train .
The last goal for the team coached by Martín Rolón was scored by striker Franco Vedoya in the 26th minute of the second half. The first goalless match was in the fifth round against San Telmo (0-1) on Isla Maciel and the drought continued: 0-2 with Chacarita (L); 0-0 with Defensores de Belgrano (V), 0-2 with Estudiantes de Río Cuarto (L), 0-2 with Nueva Chicago (V), 0-3 with Deportivo Morón (V), 0-1 with Estudiantes (L), 0-0 with Defensores Unidos (V), 0-0 with Temperley (L) and 0-1 with Colón.
One of Talleres' chances to end their losing streak was saved by the Colón goalkeeper. Photo: Talleres Press.
It's curious that the teams with the longest goalless streaks are all from the railways. In addition to British bank and commercial company managers and employees, who planted the first seed back in 1863, and sailors arriving by ship, it was the railway that brought football to the entire country . Although all three records belong to the Buenos Aires AFA, that is, to those directly affiliated with it.
The "Verde" of Caballito was first the sporting arm of the employees of the Ferrocarril Oeste (West Railway), hence its name. The team was in a bad way and in the Clausura 99, it had a forgettable run: nine matches without scoring and 874 minutes between Sergio Rodríguez 's goal on December 12, 1998 (the last matchday of the Apertura 98) and Cristian Chaparro 's goal in the 2-2 draw with River on April 28, 1999, and in June, in the 4-3 win over Gimnasia de Jujuy until the end of the Clausura 99, its last tournament in the First Division. "Score a goal" was the plea on a banner of the "Verdolagas" fans.
Central Ballester is the heir to Central Argentino, located in Villa Maipú, San Martín, the old club belonging to the workers of that same railroad, now the Mitre line. Although it is a new foundation, it uses the same colors—blue and yellow—and retained membership in 1975, following the dissolution of the old railway club in 1974.
Los Canallas had a 2023 to forget, going nine games without scoring in the last tournament played in the AFA's fifth tier of Primera División D. The streak ran from April to June and surpassed Ferro's by 10 minutes: 884 without scoring.
Talleres United Football Club was the original name of the current Talleres de Escalada. Quite British . It was founded four years after the inauguration of the Los Talleres station and many workers from the Southern Railway lived in the area, mostly of British descent, although there were also Italians, such as the brothers Juan and Raúl Perinetti. Almost 120 years after its founding, the Albirrojo also missed the goal-scoring train, setting a new record that could surpass 1000 minutes if in the next match, Saturday against Mitre de Santiago del Estero, they still don't score .
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