Valentino Simoni: reserve top scorer eyeing first-team chance | OneFootball

Valentino Simoni is going through an extraordinary moment in the Reserves, with 11 goals and 3 assists in the last 17 games over the past four months. A record that, by itself, explains why he is the great figure of the category and deserves an opportunity, which he has not had so far.

The native of Cipolletti comes from scoring in the last match, against Unión, and with this goal, he reached a truly impressive mark. The most striking thing is that those 11 goals scored in this 2025 equal the figure he had accumulated in the previous three and a half years in the same category. Before this explosion, he had scored the same number of goals in 60 matches played, with the particularity that he had only been a starter in 11 of them.

Valentino Simoni has 11 goals in the last 17 games. Photo: Gerónimo Marino.

Valentino Simoni was born on April 30, 2004, and in March 2024, he signed his first professional contract. The club from the Ribera gave him a contract until December 2028. Between 2022 and 2023, the forward suffered a ligament injury that kept him inactive for ten months.

That long wait conditioned his growth and slowed down the natural impulse that young footballers experience when joining the first team. However, after overcoming the recovery and resuming training, he began to vindicate himself match by match until this great present.

When will Valentino Simoni make the leap to the First Team?

It is incomprehensible that, with such a brilliant present, Valentino Simoni has not yet debuted in the top category or been an alternative in the first team. His goal-scoring ability and firm step in the Reserves should be more than valid arguments for Miguel Ángel Russo to start considering him for a call-up list, something he did only once with Mariano Herrón as interim, and he went to the bench without the chance to debut.

Valentino Simoni is asking for a chance in the first team.

The intensity and training with the first team he has already had, and it's starting to be time for him to have some opportunity to play. Otherwise, at the end of the year, the possibility of him being loaned to another team in Argentine football or abroad should be considered to avoid slowing down his growth, because he is already 21 years old and the category is already too small for him.

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