Frank Darío Kudelka, a coach with several spells at top division clubs in Argentina, took charge of Talleres at the beginning of 2015. The traditional team from the city of Córdoba played at the time in the Torneo Federal A, the national third division.
In two years, Kudelka managed to lead the team to two consecutive titles and put Talleres back in the top division after a 12-year hiatus. The good work, however, was not limited to the lower levels of Argentine football.
Upon returning to the elite, he managed to stay in his first season. In the second, he finished the championship in fifth place, as he led Talleres to the 2019 Copa Libertadores.
For his achievements at the head of the club in the 2017/2018 cycle, Kudelka was elected the best coach in the country. A sign that not only the coach was doing things correctly, but Talleres was also consolidating his recovery work, which was confirmed by the successful sequence of professionals who passed through the coaching role.
With the departure of Kudelka to Universidad de Chile, Juan Pablo Vojvoda, now the coach of Fortaleza, took over Talleres for the following season and was responsible for eliminating São Paulo in the second phase of the 2019 Libertadores.
His passage was not brilliant (the club did not reach the group stage of the continental tournament) and ended with the team only in 12th place in the Argentinian league, but Vojvoda left the club as the coach that most players from the base revealed (seven) during the presidency of Andrés Fassi, leader who led Talleres’ return to the first division.
In mid-2019, after the departure of Vojvoda (who did a good job at Chile’s Unión La Calera before arriving in Fortaleza), the club looked for Uruguayan Alexander “Cacique” Medina. Until then, he had only one experience as a coach on his resume, at Nacional, in Uruguay.
The gamble, however, paid off once again. The success of Medina’s visit to Córdoba caught the attention of Internacional, who signed him for this season.
“Talleres has ambition in all its structures. And this ambition drives the interactions between the coaches and the president Andrés Fassi, which are not always rosy, because the club almost always needs to quickly sell the players that stand out. But, from Kudelka to Medina, ambition was the engine. And this ‘pressure’ generated a protagonist Talleres, who potentiated the coaches’ careers: Kudelka went to Chile, Vojvoda and Medina are now in Brazil. The ambition has paid off”, analyzes Seba Roggero, reporter from the Cordoba daily La Voz.
In 2021, “Cacique” Medina led Talleres to third place in the Argentine league with the same number of points as second-placed Defensa y Justicia, who surpassed the Cordobes in goal difference.
In addition to the good classification in the championship, the club reached the final of the Copa Argentina. After a 0-0 tie in normal time, they lost on penalties to Boca Juniors. Despite having left the club without titles, he put the institution in another Copa Libertadores dispute.
In comparison with some of the most traditional clubs in the country, Talleres has changed fewer coaches in the last five years than Boca Juniors, Independiente, Racing and San Lorenzo, who together with River Plate form the so-called “big five” group. from Argentina.
River, as we know, is an exception. He has been with the same coach since 2014, Marcelo Gallardo, who renewed his contract and will remain at the club.
To follow the positive path that it has been following in recent years, Talleres inaugurated the Centro de Alto Rendimento Amadeo Nuccetelli in November, with a 1,500 m² building for the professional team, in addition to six official natural grass pitches and two synthetic turf pitches. for use by all categories.
A physical structure that will allow the continuity of the work that places the club, today, as one of the best to work for in Argentine football.
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