The Sarmiento Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Mauricio Martínez out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sarmiento will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for Sarmiento
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sarmiento are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Gastón González
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thiago Santamaría 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Junior Marabel’s goal not enough for Sarmiento
Junior Marabel scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Banfield, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Toro joins the Sarmiento first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Toro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Sarmiento promote Bruno Villalba from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bruno Villalba 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Bautista Lucero joins the Sarmiento first team
- Market Gabriel Correa steps up from the Sarmiento academy
- Squad Sarmiento lose Tiziano Delias