The Sarmiento Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javier Burrai
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sarmiento lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Feb 2027
Yair Arismendi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sarmiento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market8 Feb 2027
Sarmiento say no — this time
The offer from Elche for Francisco Razzeto was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
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
Matías Rosales runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Sarmiento
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
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
The manager makes an example of Gastón González
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Jorge Marino steps up from the Sarmiento academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jorge Marino 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 Roberto Cabrera steps up from the Sarmiento academy
- Match Cristian Zabala sends Sarmiento past Banfield
- Player ratings Cristian Zabala was on a different afternoon to everybody else