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00:00 He was born in Mexico, a Spanish nationality, but his veins have Albiceleste blood, Argentine DNA.
00:08 For the rest, his whole family is Argentine.
00:10 It was a coincidence that the boy was born in Mexico,
00:12 just because at that time his father played in that country.
00:15 So the possibility of playing for Mexico or Spain, where he later grew up,
00:19 never really crossed his mind with all due respect.
00:22 He always wanted to play for the Argentine team, for the Argentine nationals,
00:26 from those young people, you can call them if you want, roots.
00:29 Luca Romero lived only a few months in Argentina, as a child,
00:33 some time after being born in Mexico.
00:35 His first childhood memories and his period of growth
00:38 happened mostly in Spain, but the boy could never miss feeling Argentine.
00:44 To be precise, a "chilmeño", or a football talent born in Chilmesh,
00:50 an Argentine city in the province of Buenos Aires,
00:53 located in the south of the metropolitan area of ​​the capital,
00:56 an important industrial and tertiary center.
01:00 The boy, who joined the first division of the Mallorca,
01:04 at only 15 years, 7 months and 6 days to become the youngest player
01:09 to debut in the Spanish championship,
01:11 has a family heritage rich in roots in football of all kinds.
01:15 His parents are from Chilmesh, but the work of Papa Diego Romero,
01:19 as a footballer, led him to travel the world.
01:21 Really, a citizen of the world, Papa Diego, a citizen of the world, the son of Luca.
01:27 To be precise, between 1985 and 2020, Diego Adrian Romero
01:33 played in Slovenia with Mura, in the second Mexican division with Durango,
01:38 but also later in a couple of Ecuadorian teams,
01:42 until he wore, as a central defender,
01:44 the shirts of two Andalusian teams, such as Los Barrios and San Pedro.
01:50 To then tour, in the final part of his career,
01:53 many smaller teams of the Balearic Islands, starting from Formentera
01:57 and ending at San Giordi, Montuiri and Sant'Anchi.
02:02 However, every year they returned in the summer with their children in Argentina,
02:06 in Chilmesh, in Romero, so that both Luca and his brother Tobias,
02:10 another young player, kept a close bond with this country.
02:15 Elements, flash, background, all confirmed by Vito De Palma,
02:20 the commentator of ESPN's Telechronica in Argentina.
02:24 Speaking of Luca Romero, the boy has played so far
02:27 for all the youth divisions of Argentina,
02:31 first the U-15, then the U-17, now the U-20.
02:36 The World Cup, a good participation in the World Cup,
02:40 with four appearances, 222 minutes in total and two goals and one assist.
02:46 So a good presence, even if then Argentina was eliminated
02:50 from Nigeria in the round of 16.
02:53 He was the first in 2004 to score a goal in Serie A.
02:57 The boy seems very promising and therefore I believe that Milan
03:01 makes an excellent acquisition because he is a versatile player,
03:05 he is left-footed but he can play on the entire attacking front,
03:10 so he can play possibly as a substitute for Leão,
03:13 he can play behind the goal, he can play on the right,
03:16 in 4-3-3 he makes more than in 4-2-3-1.
03:21 In short, a young player, versatile,
03:24 I think he is an excellent acquisition,
03:29 above all he reaches the zero parameter,
03:31 he will reach 19 in November,
03:34 so he is still 18 years old, he is just to be seen.
03:38 I think that with the Milan shirt he can do very well.
03:43 De Palma looks ahead and declines a possible,
03:47 probable, hypothetical Milanista and Argentine history.
03:51 It remains to be seen if the roots of Luca Romero
03:54 will prove strong to the need.
03:56 His father was a professional player,
03:58 his grandfather a former Kilmash coach,
04:00 and even the uncles have experienced football in different ways.
04:04 In the cradle of a football family,
04:06 little Luca Romero was born in 2004,
04:09 while his father defended the shirt of the Alacranes de Durango.
04:13 And while Luca grew up with his father Diego,
04:16 now appropriated on the Spanish coast,
04:18 the Patriarch of the Ball became less and less
04:21 the football avant-garde of the family
04:23 and more and more the father of Luca, the little star that continued to grow.
04:28 It was precisely in that passage from footballer to father of Luca
04:33 that he was surveyed by the young people of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
04:36 The iconic key fragment is not missing.
04:39 There is in fact a video in which,
04:41 under the eyes of Papa Diego,
04:43 Luca Romero played with Dani Alves on the beach.
04:46 Take some pictures of him,
04:48 that and Leo Messi, the great Brazilian third
04:51 on that boy with long hair
04:53 who skillfully wrestled with the ball,
04:56 also dribbling the golden grains of the sand of Ses Illetes in Formentera,
05:00 the island where Romero settled before closing as a professional.
05:04 This is why Luca moved to Mallorca,
05:07 a real Europebes,
05:09 as the happy definition of Martin Seldes,
05:12 a famous Argentine journalist, radio and television.
05:16 Luca Romero is part of several Europebes
05:20 who decided to play for Argentina,
05:22 like Nico Pass and Alejandro Garnaccio, for example.
05:25 In Lazio, after a year of playing in Mallorca,
05:29 he arrived in Lazio,
05:30 where he played little because Maurizio Sarri
05:33 decided to take him little by little.
05:36 Off the field, Romero is a very shy, measured, respectful boy
05:42 and thinks that every word is a type of few words.
05:46 Let's see if when he grows up he will become a little more Argentine
05:51 to speak as the South Americans usually do.
05:56 As a player, you can say that his natural position is that of an outsider,
06:02 but also play as an attacker in the right, left side
06:07 and where they put me I do it well, said Luca.
06:12 Despite his height, which is 1.65 meters,
06:16 he is very strong to protect the ball with his body,
06:19 so he can do many things in attack.
06:23 He is a very fast player who can beat rivals for his speed,
06:27 but also for his dribbling.
06:28 And despite being a very dynamic and vertical guy,
06:32 he can also unlock a game with his passes.
06:35 Congratulations guys, congratulations,
06:38 you have done a real wonder, a jewel.
06:43 A good boy according to Martin Seldes.
06:46 For the rest, on the streets of the southern periphery of Buenos Aires,
06:49 it was a secret of Pulcinella for a long time that little Romero
06:52 was a talent on the verge of breaking,
06:55 even before Dani Alves' lightning strike.
06:58 It was all a big deal about Luca
07:00 and Diego's previous career in the city club of Chilmesh
07:03 was not about anything.
07:05 In short, that boy had been adopted day by day by his Argentina,
07:09 despite having grown up in Spain.
07:12 And it is for this reason that Luca Romero
07:15 immediately chose to wear the jersey of the youth
07:17 of the national Albi Celesti since he was a child,
07:20 first in the U-15, then in the orbit of Pablo Aymar in the U-17,
07:24 until the national U-20 when he was already a Lazio player.
07:29 Even if, among the white Celestis, with Maurizio Sarri,
07:33 he did not have the minutes of play that he expected
07:35 to continue to develop his potential.
07:38 An incomprehensible situation,
07:40 but that had also put his presence in the U-20 World Cup at risk.
07:45 Then, however, at the last, Luca entered the roster of Javier Mascherano,
07:50 an opponent of a player from Milan,
07:53 in the 2007 Champions League final,
07:55 won by the Rossoneri in Athens on the Reds of Liverpool.
07:59 And it was with the Argentine under-20 of Mascherano
08:01 that his family followed him in every seat of the U-20 World Cup,
08:05 with a flag with Argentine colors and a Kilmash stamp.
08:10 And the chintils he showed in the U-20 World Cup,
08:13 then won by Uruguay in the final over Italy,
08:16 aroused the interest of many other teams on the planet,
08:19 including Milan.
08:20 But it is right here that another story will begin,
08:23 the next adventure.
08:25 (whooshing)