The Sarmiento Herald
Squad7 Feb 2028
Osmar Giménez damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match5 Feb 2028
No end in sight to Sarmiento's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sarmiento has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 Feb 2028
Sarmiento cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A move Ignacio Roberts would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ignacio Roberts is living that version at Sarmiento, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Zabala 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Sarmiento
Iván Peralta 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.
The terraces7 Feb 2028
The crowd has taken to Agustín Wierna
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market7 Feb 2028
One of our own: Tuerto joins the Sarmiento first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tuerto 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 One of our own: Benicio Bianchi joins the Sarmiento first team
- Market Sarmiento promote Luis Alberto Arias from within
- Market One of our own: Pancho joins the Sarmiento first team