Talleres and Vasco da Gama reached an agreement for midfielder Juan Sforza to join on a 12-month loan. The deal contains a purchase option of US$1.8 million for 50 percent of the player's rights. Sforza, a 23-year-old who developed at Newell's, has arrived in Córdoba to join the team managed by Carlos Tevez. He has experience with Argentina's youth national teams and won two South American Championships with the U-15 and U-17 teams. Sforza had a prior loan at Juventude in Brazil, where he played eight matches, and he made 44 appearances for his parent club, Vasco da Gama. In the same transfer window, San Lorenzo had also shown interest in Sforza before he joined Talleres.