The former goalkeeper of the Argentine national team Sergio Romero denied contacts with Boca Juniors, and advanced his desire to continue his career in European football after completing the rehabilitation of an injury suffered last March.
“From Boca they didn’t call me at the moment, I think they have a great goalkeeper like (Agustín) Rossi. When they called me, at the time of Guillermo (Barros Schelotto), it was difficult to come because at that time I was in (Manchester) United with chances to play,” he commented in dialogue with the ESPN and TyC Sports channels.
Romero, 35, is training at Racing Club’s Tita Mattiussi venue, his soccer cradle, waiting to be discharged, something he expects over the next week. “I am already in the last stage of recovery after the event that I had to live in Venice when I collided with a colleague, a piece of cartilage came off my knee and they had to do a cleaning,” he said.
Given the tensions over the renewal of Rossi’s contract in Boca, Romero was mentioned as a possible target of “Xeneize” but the footballer himself expressed the family’s desire to return to Europe: “That’s the idea, I have many offers from abroad. Last week I ruled out three from Arabia.
In the future, he did admit the possibility of playing in his country: “One never rules out any proposal, if it comes. I would be willing to return to Racing if they ever need me. Today the club has three very good goalkeepers, two very young like ‘Chila’ (Gastón Gómez) and (Matías) Tagliamonte and it would be a great shame to come and cover up their place”.
“I know that I have the doors open to Racing because it is part of my life, as is the National Team,” he added.
Incidentally, Romero predicted that the national team will host “a great World Cup” in Qatar after winning the Copa América last year. “The team is doing very well and the fact of having won a title reinforced the unity of the group. It was needed to decompress”, he considered.
The goalkeeper stated that currently “the best version of Leo (Messi) is being seen” in the national team “simply because he is bigger and thinks things much better.” He also highlighted the work of DT Lionel Scaloni, relativizing his lack of experience at the time of taking office: “When a coach convinces the player, his age or career does not matter.”
Romero, world runner-up in Brazil 2014, is the goalkeeper with the greatest historical presence in the Argentine team with 96 games and currently remains without a club after leaving Venice, where he played his last game against Sassuolo (1-4), on 6 March of this year.
