Ezequiel Herrera

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sarmiento U18
28 Sep 2028
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Process

Marked for Ezequiel Herrera

56 Edition

The Sarmiento Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yair Arismendi

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Elián Giménez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sarmiento they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A row about effort at Sarmiento

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mauricio Martínez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Rosario Central take the points off Sarmiento

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Tempers go at Sarmiento

Juan Manuel Cabrera 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

Sarmiento lose Ezequiel Herrera

42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Nicolás Vázquez faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Nicolás Vázquez after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Mauricio Martínez left out for tactical reasons at Sarmiento

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

The dugout

Julián Mavilla asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Sarmiento Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Julián Mavilla says Sarmiento went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Santiago Salle

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Sarmiento

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

Ezequiel Herrera steps up from the Sarmiento academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ezequiel Herrera 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: Mario Otero joins the Sarmiento first team

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

Market

Sarmiento promote Daniel Ojeda from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Ojeda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Franco Medina joins the Sarmiento first team

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

In brief