‘I already left once, I would leave again’

Argentine defender Cristian “Cuti” Romero assured today that winning the World Cup in Qatar was “the best thing that happened to him in life” and guaranteed his presence in the March friendlies with the national team and warned that if his team , Tottenham, from England, tells him “don’t go, I’d go again.”

Speaking to TyC Sports and regarding how he marked the Norwegian striker Erling Haaland in the recent match between Tottehnahm and Manchester City, the Cordoba defender indicated: “I am a student of (Nicolás) Otamendi when it comes to defending, I am still learning”, although He did not elaborate on the expulsion he suffered in that match.

“I always went from playing man to man. To press very high. With Gasperini we did it a lot in Atalanta. I understand the risks. If I had to mark Julián, I didn’t touch him. Julián runs a lot. Luckily he was on the other side” he added.

Regarding his presence in the friendlies of the National Team in March, Romero was clear: “If Tottenham tells me to stay, I already left once, I would leave again” and then added that, from the concentration in Qatar, he misses “everything, the group is missed, the day to day, the dunks, the trick matches”.

Regarding his partner in the defense of the selected team, Lisandro Martínez, he indicated that many English journalists asked him about him and told them that “they were going to end up loving Licha. It is not easy to adapt to the Premier League.”

Like Lionel Messi recently, Romero rejected the accusations against Argentine players of “bad winners”, indicating that “lately, Argentines for the rest of the world are misplaced or bad winners. The only thing we did was win at whatever cost “.

“Two days before the match against the Netherlands, in the trick matches we analyzed the things they said, the things that one and the other said, and those things are annoying. Football is like that, the World Cup is just a game. Our way of winning It was that, but whoever reviews the whole film will see that they were the ones who talked a lot before the game,” he added.

In addition, he indicated that “anyone who analyzes and questions the temperature with which the game was played is because they do not breathe soccer and have never experienced soccer.”

“We won fairly and we won it well because we played an excellent game, we deserved to go through,” he added.

Regarding the match against France, Romero said he believes that he is “the one who watched the final the most” and that he must have seen “the entire game about 20 times.”

“When I raised the cup I thought of my son and I broke down, it was the most beautiful thing to live next to him,” said the Tottenham central defender, who added: “The 40 days of concentration in Qatar were the best thing that happened to me in my life “.

From his beginnings as a footballer, Cuti recalled that he went to try River, Independiente and Racing, but he wanted to be in Córdoba and play in Belgrano.

“I wanted to leave Belgrano because I didn’t play and they told me to come back here in three months. Leaving was the best thing that has happened to me in my career. I suffered a lot leaving Belgrano. It was the dream of my life to play there,” he said.