Luka Romero Bezzana was born in Durango, Mexico, on Thursday November 18, 2004, but she may well have been born in Argentina, Slovenia, Ecuador or Spain; Yes, in one of the many countries in which his father, Diego Adrián Romero Oivadis, has played in his already long career that has transitioned to amateurism.
But it was in Mexico, just in the year in which Diego played for the Alacranes de Durango, in the defunct Primera A, when Luka was born. Seven months later, the Romero family grabbed their things and left for Ecuador. And since then Luka had had no more reference to his birthplace until he began to amaze with his football in the children’s categories of Spanish football. It was there that he began to be strongly called the “Mexican Messi”, an erroneous nickname by all accounts.
THINK ABOUT ARGENTINA
Everything indicates that the fact that Luka was born in Mexico was a mere coincidence, because in his head there is only the idea of playing for Argentina.
He is the boy of the moment, because with 15 years and 219 days of life he debuted professionally with Mallorca in Spain, no less than against Real Madrid, a baptism of fire, but at the same time, the dream of many who aspire to make footballer life.
Luka has come to say the “Mexican Messi”, Messi, comes from the talent he shows with the ball with his left leg, he is a gambetero player, with good driving, imbalance and definition, for something he is compared to the 10 of Barcelona and the Argentine team. The Mexican thing is a mere reference to the place where he was born, because Luka did not grow up in the country, does not know the idiosyncrasy and does not show a sense of belonging to the country in which he was born. There is nothing wrong with it, because you have made your life miles from this land.
Just look at his Instagram account where he has 61 posts and none of them is an allusion to Mexico. But there are for Argentina and Mallorca, the places with which he feels identified. The Argentine Soccer Association (AFA), had already followed him, they called him to know his feelings and in an interview granted to said Association, on July 14, 2018, he spoke with his heart.
“My whole family is Argentine; my dream is to wear the national shirt, ”she said naturally. It was Alejandro Saggese who was in charge of the contacts, he felt Luka’s conditions in the first instance and who convinced the managers that it must be the bet of the future. They say that when he arrived at the Ezeiza farm, the place where the Argentine national teams train, he put on the albiceleste and decided that this was his destiny.
COULD STILL CHOOSE
Javier Aguirre, coach of Leganés and the great benchmark of Mexican soccer in Europe, said that he knows from a good source that the Mexican Soccer Federation will invite Luka Romero to represent his country of birth. “Mexico knows that it wants to invite him to participate with the Mexican National Team,” he said. And yes, it is still time to convince him, but it seems that there will be no going back.
The rules of FIFA manage that Luka could play with Mexico because he has not yet played an official match with the highest albiceleste team; however, the action plan that the AFA implemented a couple of years ago seduced him. Romero says that his idol is Lionel Messi, he assures that he tries to imitate him in some things, perhaps he also does the same as Leo, who was always clear that his heart was with Argentina even though Spain and Barcelona have been and are the place where he became a footballer and a man.
Luka was born in Mexico and today that he is talked about so much, the fact that he was born in Durango seems to be a mere anecdote, his roots are not here, but in Argentina, the land of his parents. Fate only wanted him to be born in Mexico, but his football passport does not appeal to it. When he said that he would always play Argentina he was 13 years old, he was a boy, and they say that children always tell the truth.
THE KEYS
YOUR RECORD
With his debut in LaLiga, Luka Romero broke an 80-year-old record in Spanish territory.
THE DUE
Before debuting against Real Madrid, he was called up for duels against Villarreal and Leganés.
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