David Sotelo

Twice, David Sotelo's career has stopped mid-stride. On 26 January 2024, in a Copa de la Liga match against Central Córdoba, he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Surgery followed, and he was out for the rest of the 2024 season. In August 2025, a fractured left ankle sidelined him again, reportedly into 2026.

He came up through the Newell's Old Boys academy and was promoted to the first team in September 2022. No fee was involved — he was already theirs. He still wears the number 8 shirt there.

What the record shows of his playing is narrow. He is right-footed, and the numbers bear it out: in one season, all six of his registered shots came off the right. Detailed season-by-season figures for 2023 and 2024 are thin, split as they are between league and cup.

The absences accumulated around the two major injuries. He was unavailable from 24 February to 1 September 2024, then again from 19 October to 5 November that year, and once more from 27 February to 16 March 2026.

There are no trophies in his career so far, and no individual awards. Newell's did not win an Argentine championship during his time in the first team. Nor is there any record in the public sources of a call-up to Argentina's youth sides at under-17, under-20 or under-23 level, to the Olympic squad, or to the senior national team.

He remains at the club that raised him.