Vasco open to loaning midfielder to Argentine club | OneFootball

Vasco is not expected to create obstacles for the loan departure of midfielder Juan Sforza to San Lorenzo, Argentina. The Argentine club has intensified its interest in recent days, and the Vasco board sees a deal that allows the player to gain more minutes on the field in 2026 as favorable.

Sforza recently returned from a loan to Juventude but is not in the plans of the coaching staff led by Fernando Diniz. The internal assessment is that the Argentine lost his place in the squad throughout 2025 and failed to meet expectations since joining the club.

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Sforza is out of Vasco's plans — Photo: Leandro Amorim/Vasco

Signed at the beginning of 2024 in a deal led by Alexandre Mattos, Sforza cost Vasco around R$ 25 million and arrived with the status of a starter. However, he ended up being a reserve for most of the season, with Hugo Moura and Mateus Carvalho taking the position. In 2025, the midfielder played only five times — twice in the Série A and three times in the Campeonato Carioca — and was left out of the squad lists on several occasions, both with Carille and with Felipe and Fernando Diniz.

Despite the expectations created after a good performance in the Pre-Olympic tournament for Argentina and a long negotiation with Newell’s Old Boys, the club where he was revealed and even became captain at a young age, Sforza failed to establish himself at São Januário. His contract with Vasco is valid until the end of 2028.

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Sforza in action for Vasco (Photo: Thiago Ribeiro/AGIF)

The loan to Juventude, in the middle of last season, also did not yield the expected sequence. Given this scenario, a return to Argentine football is seen as a positive alternative for the player's recovery, especially considering his history of prominence at Newell’s.

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