2023-10-06 12:42:26
Eliana Guercio’s emotion on the air and the message regarding Chiquito Romero
Sergio Romero was the great hero of Boca Juniors in the semifinal of the Copa Libertadores. The emblematic goalkeeper was fundamental during the 90 minutes, blocking key balls and was once once more the protagonist in the penalty shootout that gave Xeneize the victory over Palmeiras to qualify for the grand final that will be played on November 4.
Jorge Almirón’s team landed in Argentina around 7 in the morning and an hour later the 36-year-old goalkeeper appeared on the floor of the program El Club del Moro that is broadcast on La 100 (FM99.9) to give a surprise to his wife, Eliana Guercio, who works there.
“What a beautiful love story. He comes from playing and is going to give her a kiss,” said Costa, one of the members of the program when they noticed that Romero was at the door of the place. “Let’s yell at him over the balcony to not leave. This shows that if he doesn’t call you it’s because he doesn’t feel like it. Because the boy is coming,” said Maju Lozano, one of the co-hosts. “We were doing the program and Guercio ran down. There is Chiquito Romero who stopped by to greet Guercio, just kissing Chiquito, following Boca’s victory last night. That’s love, it came here from Ezeiza,” said driver Santiago del Moro.
Chiquito entered the studio and stayed for a few minutes giving an interview where he talked regarding what happened, but also expressed himself regarding his career. There they both had an emotional moment talking regarding the difficult process they went through as a family due to the knee injury that caused the goalkeeper to suffer for many years.
The surprise that Chiquito Romero gave Eliana Guercio
“Throughout my career we have fought a lot. She doesn’t really like me saying it but we have fought for 15, 16 or 17 years once morest a rather annoying, restless knee. This last operation that I had last year in Boca with Dr. Batista changed the lives of both of us, of everyone. It became a knee like when I was 16 years old, a new knee, without fluid, without pain, without discomfort. She allowed me to return to work in the best way. Nowadays, being able to enjoy this present for us is spectacular. Demonstrate once more to everyone that you are whole, active, that you can. Because so many things have been said last year… It wasn’t regarding killing me, it was regarding killing the Boca leadership,” Romero said.
The runner-up in the world with Argentina in 2014 stated that, in any case, these sayings do not “affect” him and explained: “I have a rather particular head. I was never bothered by a criticism. I know who said what, yes, because I am a person who likes to be informed. But it’s not my turn, it doesn’t reach me, that’s why it affected her (Guercio) more than it did me. But not to me”.
One of the most emotional scenes came when Romero began to review that he “transcended the colors” of a club: “I am a Racing fan, but I take photos with people from Independiente, San Lorenzo, Huracán, from all over the world…” While saying this, Del Moro noticed that Eliana was visibly excited.
“The Guercio who doesn’t stop crying because she knows the inside, the suffering,” said the driver.
“I know the job and not give up. The truth is that beyond what one can collaborate, if that inner strength is not in him, it is like everything else. You can, you can, but I’m the one who has to go, do the rehabilitation, do the exercise, let it hurt, it’s a lot. He really had a job for many crazy years. Like everyone with problems. Living with pain, because it is living with pain, was very hard. Then he got used to it… And now, I’m from Boca, being here and being able to be like he is now makes me happy because I know that he can enjoy it, that he doesn’t come to my house to put on the ice. It was 14 years,” Guercio said.
When they asked him who the goalkeeper thought of following being a hero in the penalty shootout, he laughed and clarified: “Here I have her next to me… My daughters who I knew were happy, content, that it was a riot, they were like crazy.” . When I got to her locker room, the first thing I did was call her on the phone and she told me, there’s one who’s already sleeping, the other one was sleeping with the dog on her head. Luca, who called me dad, pointed to the phone and the TV. Jazmín is already another bostera, he is more fanatical than ever.” Guercio and Romero are parents of four children: Jazmín, Chloe, Meghan and Luca.
The footballer had already mentioned Eliana as soon as they qualified for the final and a journalist in the stadium asked him if they had won “a la Boca”. And he recounted the call he had with Guercio: “My wife, the first thing she said to me when she answered the phone was ‘a la Boca’, so it must have been a la Boca.”
In the radio program, Guercio noted the deep hug that her husband gave with goalkeeper Javi García: “Yesterday there was a lot of talk regarding the hug they gave each other when the game ended…”. And Chiquito spoke regarding the subject: “We know each other since we were little, he pushed at the time for me to be here. He told me you should be here and try this. That so much time has passed, because I hadn’t spoken to Javi in regarding 14 years, that it happens, that we are together today, that we hug each other, that’s why when he approached me yesterday it wasn’t just to hug him and give him a kiss, but to lift him up, we are where we wanted . “They are priceless moments.”
In a more relaxed tone, Eliana recalled that Romero trained during the pandemic in the garden of the house and they reviewed a curious event that they experienced: “He tried the loot and it was torn!” Romero said with a laugh. And Eliana reviewed: “I told him you want me to kick you until Ale, who was the goalkeeper coach, arrives. In the garden of my house, between the gallery, the space that there was. He tells me yes, but put on booties so your foot doesn’t hurt. I found it really fun. I went, I put on my knee-high stockings, my ankle boots, I buttoned myself up, everything was tight. I go to the ball and wow, I said oh that’s great. You hit it with a boot and the ball flies. I got excited and in the second I was distraught. The whole calf, I asked for the change.”
The funny anecdote of Chiquito Romero and Eliana Guercio
The footballer remained for almost half an hour on the program floor in a gesture that Del Moro himself highlighted: “I can’t believe that following last night, having traveled, without sleeping and everything, you came here to say hello. They are Romeo and Juliet.” “I came to give him a kiss and I was leaving,” Chiquito clarified. And he added: “Can I say one thing? This show is not regarding interviews, it is for people to have fun, we are doing an interview! I didn’t sleep but it was worth doing the jump on the radio.”
“It is not the best moment of my career, I have had very good moments. Not only in the National Team, I had very high peaks in the National Team, but I am lucky that in every club I have been to I have left a nice memory. That for us is priceless. I always tell her: we can go back to Holland where they welcome us with open arms, to Italy, to France where we were only there for a year, to United not to mention, in United I have had moments when we played a game there and they shouted Argentinian Argentinian . Those moments are unique, within countries like England where they come first and then others. It’s incredible. In Boca I have found a unique moment, I felt good once more, happy, to enjoy,” he clarified.
OTHER PHRASES OF ROSEMARY
The synthetic grass that generated controversy in the preview: “Happy for what we achieved yesterday. The floor of the court was not good at all. I suffered more than the team because of my knee, because that floor was very hard. But the goal was achieved.”
Returning to the Maracaná following the 2014 World Cup final: “It’s a joy, not a revenge.”
The dream of returning to the Argentine national team: “Since the age of 15 or 16, the National Team has been a goal. 15 days before I knew that the National Team list was coming out and I was already waiting for it.”
Objectives in his career: “In football I have no objectives. The truth is that. May my family enjoy it, be able to go to the field to watch the game and enjoy it. That is my goal. Then if good games come, achievements, football is very changeable: today they applaud you, tomorrow they insult you.”
What to say to critics: “Nothing, Monday’s newspaper tells you that alone. He was not a retired goalkeeper, he was not a broken goalkeeper, he was a goalkeeper who needed my time and in Boca I got it. Nobody rushed me, they operated on me, they gave me my time, my space, we missed a break with the family because in November I didn’t take a vacation, I stayed at the club working every day only with the kinesiologists. Today, being where we are was worth that effort and we are going for more.”
Rituals in prisons: “They are crazy things that I have in my head. It was born in 2014 (the ritual) and it’s over. When you cling to those things, they are cabals, they are moments. I think it’s also a little bit that the forward has to wait for you to finish doing all the nonsense you’re doing. A little bit of all that. But I’m not going to take charge of the penalties alone, we have a great working group with Gayoso, with Javi García, Lea Brey. I said it yesterday, that this group of goalkeepers is so good humanly, very healthy. I have known Javi García since I was 16 or 17 years old, he was one of the crazy people who said that one day you have to take a shortcut in this club. I told him to call him… How might you not?”
The promise to his teammates in the penalties and the curious dialogue with Marcos Rojo: “Yes, two… (he was going to save). A unique moment from the previous day, we were with Marquitos Rojo lying on the stretcher massaging each of us on our operated knees and one of the kinesiologists thought to tell me: ‘Well, black, you told us once morest Almagro that you were going to save one and you saved two, once morest Nacional and Racing that you were going to save two, tomorrow is the day you have to save three.’ I look at Marcos and say: ‘Listen to me, black man, what if I don’t say anything?’ ‘No, I’m dying of a heart attack. Lie even if it’s ‘. When I went there I felt inside that I was going to be able to do something good for my classmates. And sometimes those crazy things happen to me when I say it.”
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