Sergio Romero and the brutal honesty of a “small” comment that made too much of a “big” noise

“The races are the third largest in Argentina.”

The sentence did not say Sergio Chiquito Romero, one of the best goalkeepers in the recent history of the Argentine national team. came out of the mouth of Vittorio Biancothe president of Racingwho only a year ago wanted to remove the patina from the great present that the Academy is going through, recognizing in his analysis the primacy of Mouth Y River locally. On that occasion he made noise the sentence of the Avellaneda boss, even if not as much as the one generated by Romero this week, when he had not yet worn the xeneize gloves.

“the mouth is the biggest club in Argentina and I come to show that I am prepared for this bow as I demonstrated at the time with the Argentina national team“Romero declared in his official presentation, a few hours after training at the Racing facilities, the club where he trained professionally.

The comment made a profound impression on the racing people, and Blanco himself was one of those who came out to question it, pointing to it as “misleading, unfortunate and unnecessary”, initiating an incomprehensible debate.

Romero, Olympic champion, vice world champion in 2014 and record attendance with the national team diver (96 games and just 74 goals conceded), among other merits, did not seem to “sell smoke” in his statement but declared “as a European ”, Perhaps conditioned by having lived since the age of 20 in a culture where people tend to judge more with reason than with passion.

In that armed conference in the heart of the candy boxRomero himself also said in front of the so-called “Mundo Boca” that he was a Racing fan. But this is now thanks to the company that called him at this point in his career, at 35 and with the desire to feel fully again.

No, he did not return to Racing, it is true, despite having trained in the club’s facilities until a few moments before his signing with Boca. And it doesn’t make much sense now to determine whether or not he was called to cut the Academy short.

With the serene tone that characterizes him, Chiquito recently explained that he understood that the club of his loves did not have it in his plans and that it was not logical “to cover the guys who are doing things well”, referring to Gaston “Chila” Gomez Y Gabriele Ariasthe goalkeepers of the national team who currently compete for the three sticks of Gago’s team.

It is also true that in 2018 Romero had said that if he returned to Argentina he would do so to play “in Racing or in Boca”, in view of a World Cup, the third of his career, which he should have played but an injury and the Sampaoli’s intransigence excludes him.

To make matters worse, this all happened just before a new classic between Racing and Boca, particularly also because it presents with ownership issues in both arch. And with an atmosphere of revenge for the Academy after the unjust but indisputable elimination by the League Cup, which still hovers like a fog on both sides of the Riachuelo.

Social networks have done their duty and the disastrous “folders” appeared. against small. For example, a recent statement in which he tells the guys at Racing to have fun being “in the best team in the world”.

There he does not speak as a professional but as a fan and the son of an institute where he played only four games: Romero is with the Academy diver, at the Tita Mattiussi property, the legendary boarding house and training ground where he arrived from Comodoro Rivadavia when he was just 15 years old. The same place also where he was always in charge of attending with financial and material donations, for example by donating a field that bears his name.

All this mattered little: a message inside Twitter He encouraged the idea of ​​having a barbecue with that facility’s poster. This week, the humor? dedicated to the hero of penalties against Holland would become an irony of what our wonderful but sometimes sick football is. It was in Mar del Plata, the night when the cars of five Aldosivi footballers went up in flames.