The Sarmiento Herald
Match6 Feb 2027
Sarmiento end the wait against Chacarita Juniors
It had gone 12 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Manuel García
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Manuel García will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sarmiento the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Adrián Balboa, 33, rolls back the years — 8.02
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.02 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Osmar Giménez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sarmiento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 Feb 2027
Iván Arboleda has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Sarmiento can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Sarmiento
4 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Martínez 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Sarmiento
Yair Arismendi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market8 Feb 2027
Luis Peralta steps up from the Sarmiento academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Peralta 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Juan Medina joins the Sarmiento first team
- Match Adrián Balboa the difference as Sarmiento beat Chacarita Juniors
- Squad 100 appearances for Gabriel Díaz