Chiquito Romero admits he misses Boca’s goal: “I never really left” | OneFootball

After long months of being practically ‘disappeared’, not giving many statements as he used to and lacking playing time, Sergio Romero broke his silence amid the doubts surrounding Boca’s goal due to Agustín Marchesín’s poor performance. When asked “When are you coming back?” by a fan who stopped him, Chiquito replied: “I never left.”

His approach of keeping a lower profile during this 2025, in which he hasn’t played since he’s not considered by Miguel Ángel Russo, hasn’t changed. The brief words that a fan ‘extracted’ from him happened in a civil context, right on the street.

Romero parked his car outside the Martín Fierro gala to wait for his wife, Eliana Guercio, and during that time he was approached. “Chiquito, when are you coming back to Boca? Come back to Boca,” a Boca fan said to him, to which the goalkeeper replied: “I never left.”

The exchange, which took place during those seconds when Romero’s partner was taking photos with fans, continued with a phrase from the goalkeeper that made waves amid his ‘sidelined’ situation at La Ribera. “Yes, of course,” he concluded when asked again if he “missed Boca’s goal.”

Marchesín’s natural competitor, due to his career and stature, is out of the running. Since the incident with a fan in 2024 and his subsequent knee surgery, Chiquito hasn’t played in 2025 and isn’t even considered, as Russo prioritizes Leandro Brey as the backup and even Javier García as the third option.

In fact, it was only against Aldosivi, when the coach decided to take everyone except Cristian Lema (who was left out), that Romero reappeared for the first time on the squad list. Nevertheless, as has been the case all year, he wasn’t even among the substitutes. The last match the former Argentina national team goalkeeper played was on November 23, 2024, at Huracán’s stadium, when he kept a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw in Parque Patricios, just before Boca was eliminated from the Copa Argentina by Vélez.

His story at Boca, with extreme ups and downs between the glory that slipped away in the 2023 Copa Libertadores and the debacle in 2024, is nearing its end: his contract expires at the end of the year and, barring an unexpected early departure, he will leave the club as a free agent without playing any more minutes.

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