The Sarmiento Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian Zabala
112 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Athletic Bilbao come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sarmiento did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Vintage Michael Hoyos — 8.03
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.03, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nicolás Pasquini 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Sarmiento come up short against Barracas Central
Barracas Central left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Hoyos 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Arboleda
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Jhon Renteria runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matías Rosales stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Rosales and Sarmiento agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Sarmiento has picked up the phone to Cristian Zabala
- The dugout Martín Ponce answers for it
- The dugout Sarmiento pick somebody else ahead of Yair Arismendi