The Sarmiento Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Brandon Márquez
14 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Jonatan Gómez out for 138 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A one-man rearguard from Javier Burrai
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
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.
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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A masterclass from Manuel Mónaco
Marked 8.88 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market8 Feb 2027
Mateo Giménez steps up from the Sarmiento academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateo Giménez 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ezequiel Méndez steps up from the Sarmiento academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ezequiel Méndez 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Ezequiel Torres joins the Sarmiento first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ezequiel Torres is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Federico Arce steps up from the Sarmiento academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Junior Marabel at his very best
- Loan watch Jeremías Vallejos counts the days