Ulises Delgado

Striker - Sarmiento
11 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ulises Delgado

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The Sarmiento Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Sarmiento

A 1‑0 win over Boca Juniors, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Nothing got past Manuel García

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Matías Rosales at 21 — 8.47

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Matías Rosales did not need any: 8.47, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Nobody wants to play Sarmiento right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Sarmiento

Javier Burrai 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.

Squad

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.

The terraces

Sarmiento supporters have found a favourite in Matías Rosales

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Matías Rosales has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Sarmiento. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

No hiding place for Santiago Salle

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Salle, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Sarmiento Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Juan Manuel Insaurralde signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Manuel Insaurralde commits to Sarmiento for another 2 years.

Squad

Javier Burrai in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sarmiento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Jhon Renteria again

The phone has started ringing about Jhon Renteria again, and this time the name on the line is Betis. Sarmiento are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Manuel Insaurralde is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Juan Manuel Insaurralde shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market

Nicolás Pasquini is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sarmiento has been clear about where Nicolás Pasquini stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gastón González

“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.

Market

Nobody at Sarmiento has picked up the phone to Javier Burrai

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Player ratings

Ulises Delgado leaves them behind him

Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief