El Mundo Talleres is already in Liberators mode. Next Thursday at 7 p.m., the first Albiazul team will play against Cobresal, for the third date of Group B.
The leader’s objective is to win to move towards the round of 16, the institutional objective, after the elimination in the Professional League Cup, in the regular phase, something undesired.
And in pursuit of that goal, there will be Diego Ulises Ortegoza. “Uli”, as they call him on campus, has just turned 27 and is doing well. Since the match with Riestra, he regained his place in the midfield, and has been rising.
He wants to be “the most unbalanced player” again, according to the definition of Javier Gandolfi, in his Talleres version 2023. In 2024, he finally managed to gain the consideration of Walter Ribonetto, the current coach. And last March he was pre-summoned by Chile – led by Ricardo Gareca – for the Fifa double date, although it was not finally confirmed.
As you can see, he writes a very important chapter in his history as a professional player.
old promise
His story became known because the man born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos came to football “without inferiors.” He himself told Mundo D that he played in the neighborhood until he was 18 years old. For silver, piglets or lambs. In his free time, he was a bricklayer and learned the trade well.
That was until Silvia Latoff, a lawyer and agent for soccer players, got him several tests until he ended up in Los Andes de Lomas de Zamora. He stayed, at the time he signed his professional contract; The transfer to Gimnasia came and his arrival to Talleres, which he had to force. Here is his present and future.
Part of what he promised his paternal grandfather Basilio Ortegoza, who acted as a father and who died when Ulises was 12 years old and was in Rosario Central. In front of the coffin, he promised her that he was going to reach big football, according to the note by Ignacio Arámburu, from Súper Sport Nicoleño.
“On the day of his son’s funeral, wrapped in sadness and with tears in his eyes, the boy Ulises left his Central jersey on the coffin and promised him that one day he would reach big football in Argentina,” the journalist wrote. .
However, there was no case. Little Ortegoza stopped playing. For several years he played on the street, in the baby and even in a club of the same name whose shirt he has defended since 2022.
“Six years later, Ulises resumed the practice of the round at Talleres de Villa Constitución, where he began to exhibit his brilliance. Then, he stood out in Argentino Oeste, runner-up in the 2017 Apertura (in the final he missed the last penalty that gave Belgrano the title) and then paraded his talent for General Rojo, until Nicolo from Silvia Latoff, agent advisor, appeared on his way. of soccer players, and he took him from San Nicolás,” Aramburu commented.
“He emigrated to Buenos Aires with his bags full of hopes. He tried himself in Ferro, he liked it but they gave him a run for his money. He also excelled in Defensores del Bajo Belgrano although they did not find him housing. “He finally ended up in Los Andes de Lomas de Zamora,” the journalist stated.
When he scored his first goal in Los Andes, he celebrated by raising his arms to the sky, symbolizing “the promise fulfilled.”
The same thing he did when he scored the great goal against River in 2022, as you can see here.
Workshops, this 2024 and its present
Ortegoza has been rising in level. He had a terrible start, because he suffered the loss of his other grandfather. But he straightened up, little by little. He returned to the team and Chile, as mentioned, preselected him since his mother has trans-Andean residence. Plus, he will be a dad for the second time, in a short time.
Ortegoza has been fulfilling that old promise. He came to First Division and Conmebol football, he will soon be on the national team.
Talleres enjoys it.
