The two signings yet to play a single minute for Unión | OneFootball

The 2025 sports year came to an end for Unión after their defeat against Gimnasia at the 15 de Abril stadium, in a year that had two clearly defined halves. The first semester was one to forget—last place in the Apertura as well as in their Sudamericana group—and a completely different second half, where the team avoided relegation and fought at the top in the Clausura. All of this with a squad that hardly changed and added very few new names.

Among those additions, two cases stood out at the end of the year: the only signings who didn’t play a single minute. They are goalkeeper Tomás Durso and Paraguayan defender Fernando Díaz, protagonists of very different situations but with the same outcome: zero participation.

Durso was the last to join, coming from Atlético Tucumán, and arrived to compete for the goalkeeper spot, but the level shown by Matías Tagliamonte, one of the stars, closed off any chance for him to fight for the position.

Díaz’s case is the most striking. He was one of the first to arrive this semester, with a background that generated excitement and the feeling that he was coming to take over the left back position, an area Unión needed to strengthen. However, he never managed to convince Leonardo Madelón, who quickly stopped considering him. The Paraguayan was hardly ever on the bench, and his adaptation seems to have been more complicated than expected.

Díaz has a contract for one more year, so his future will be one of the issues to resolve in the next transfer window. In a semester where Unión responded, competed, and showed character, the two signings who didn’t play ended up as an exception in a season that went from disappointment to recovery.

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