The Sarmiento Herald
Match9 Sep 2026
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 ratings14 Sep 2026
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 ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Match9 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
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.
Match9 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Sarmiento
- Player ratings The one thing Ulises Delgado could not do
- Player ratings Nothing got past Lucas Suárez