MADRID – The Real Madrid squad was surprised yesterday with the debut with the Mallorca shirt of a Luka Romero, to whom several members of the white squad were more than twice their age.
Some players from the white club already knew the 15-year-old pearl from what has been read in the media in recent weeks but others did not even know about her existence and “were amazed” about sharing grass with someone so young.
In fact, in the morning, two Madrid players already joked during the concentration with the possible debut of the footballer born in Mexico but who, for the moment, has decided to play with the Argentina National Team. “If a thirteen-year-old boy makes thirteen fourteen, be careful, eh …”, they said according to a source, he told ESPN.
Luka had already had the option of playing in previous days but as the start of the match against Madrid approached, the possibility that the young man had a few minutes against Madrid, the day of the birthday of two Argentine historical as Lionel Messi and Juan Román Riquelme.
Some voices say that everything was scheduled because Mallorca wanted to take advantage of the showcase offered by a match against Zinedine Zidane’s team to show their young pearl to the world and make him the youngest player to debut in La Liga history, with such only 15 years and 219 days, beating Samson, former Celta player who debuted in 1939 with 15 years and 255 days.
Another source tells ESPN that already in the warm-up, two Valdebebas operatives stared at Romero saying to each other: “Well, he doesn’t seem to be 15 years old, really.”
For their part, Luka’s teammates knew that it was a matter of time to see him in action in the first division. “He is a quick little boy, he has quality and a physique that does not look like that of a boy his age,” a member of the first Vermillion squad tells ESPN. Another wardrobe companion goes further and assures that “since they put him on training” with the first squad, he had already “demonstrated little things because of his impudence and self-confidence.”
Another third player from Mallorca says that the footballers did not know that Vicente Moreno was going to make his debut against Madrid and dares to make an optimistic forecast about his future in professional football.
“He looks quiet and shy. Observer too, which says a lot about him because you can tell he wants to learn, but he’s very shy. A safe player will come out. Especially if, like now, he has his feet on the ground, ”he says when questioned by ESPN.
Luka’s trip with the rest of his companions was the usual one. Plane from Palma de Mallorca, concentration in a hotel in the capital, party, night in Madrid and, first thing on Thursday, return to Palma. Mallorca coincided that morning with Sporting de Gijón at the Barajas airport and several of the expedition members of the Asturian team stressed to ESPN that “it seems that he is 20 years old instead of 15” due to his physique. In addition, several of them also looked at his haircut and, jokingly, commented that it is something that “has to improve”.
Within the white squad, the debut of the young Romero was so surprising that, according to ESPN, it was the subject of conversation in the post-match. Several players had dinner with their respective friends and / or family members and Luka’s “self-confidence” was discussed in several of the after-dinner sessions. In fact, a member of the white squad shared via WhatsApp a tweet that highlighted that Sergio Ramos signed for Madrid just a year after the birth of the footballer who had just made history with the Mallorca shirt.
Meanwhile, the Mallorca footballers ask for calm and advise Luka to keep his feet on the ground so that nothing and no one interferes with his development. The future of young Luka is unknown, but on June 24, 2020 it will forever remain in the memory of the little one from Durango.
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