Roberto Martinez

Striker - Sol de America U18
16 Jan 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Roberto Martinez

28 Edition

The Sol de America Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Graduation day at Sol de America

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Sol de America come up short against General Caballero

General Caballero left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Sol de America training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Román 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.

Squad

Aquilino Giménez 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 Sol de America this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Fabricio Arce

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Joel Jiménez

“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

Juan Almiron steps up from the Sol de America academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Almiron has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Federico Sanabria joins the Sol de America first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Federico Sanabria is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Roberto Martinez joins the Sol de America first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roberto Martinez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief