Cristian “Holiday” Romeroworld champion with the Argentine national teamrecalled his debut as a professional player in belgrano and told an emotional anecdote that he had with Esteban “Teté” Gonzálezwho was the Pirate’s coach at the time.
In an interview broadcast by ESPN From London, England, the current Tottenham player brought to mind the memory of that August 28, 2016, the day he made his official debut once morest Independiente, at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium.
“My soccer memory of Belgrano comes from my coach, ‘Teté’ González, when I made my debut in the first division,” began the central defender of the national team. With pauses in his words and a remarkable emotion to relive that moment, “Cuti” narrated that before playing his “first game as a professional”, “Teté” took him to “the stairs of the hotel where we were concentrating.”
“They were very tall and he put me on the lowest step. There he told me: ‘You are here today. Look at the ladder. You can raise it to the bottom and achieve many things, but it only depends on you’”he mentioned emphatically.
Continuing with the words of the then Pirate coach, Romero added that “Teté” remarked: “Today you start, it will depend on you if you stop or if you go up”.
After having conquered the World Cup in Qatar, the words of the former player and sky blue coach take on a remarkable weight. “I always remember that advice he gave me. Every time I get the chance I tell him that I’m still climbing that ladder that he taught me and that I want to go all the way to the bottom”, added the Tottenham defender.
The statements of the former Belgrano player reached the ears of Estebán González, who took advantage of the same publication and left a message to the world champion: “And wow you have uploaded it, it is a pride to see how you have done it! There’s a long way to go on that ladder. To give it everything and keep going up that continues to depend only on you “answered “Teté”.
The words of “Cuti” Romero
Cuti Romero told an anecdote with Teté González, who was his coach in Belgrano, prior to his debut in the First Division. pic.twitter.com/oELUpUrWF8
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