The Sarmiento Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
32 days out for Adrián Balboa after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sarmiento will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Juan Manuel Insaurralde falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Sarmiento
Junior Marabel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
Independiente Rivadavia take the points off Sarmiento
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Manuel García makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Manuel García
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ezequiel Castro faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ezequiel Castro after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Julián Mavilla dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Cristian Zabala faces his old club
Tigre next, and one man in the Sarmiento dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- The dugout No place in the plan for Carlos Villalba
- Player ratings Santiago Salle beats them one at a time
- Market Sarmiento put Ulises Echevarría up for sale