Marco Romero: “Lionel Messi is the best because he does wonderful things”

1. What number would you wear if you were a soccer player?

The 4.

2. Who is the best Peruvian player of all time?

Cesar Cueto.

3. Which Peruvian World Cup team did you like the most?

That of Spain 82.

4. What would your dream goal with Peru be like in a World Cup?

A goal feigning players from midfield, scoring a shot from outside the area and also another from Chalaca.

5. What rival would make you tremble?

None.

6. What is the phrase of a football narrator that you remember the most?

“Glory to Peru in the heights” (Daniel Peredo).

7. The Peruvian goal you shouted the most?

The one of the classification (to Russia 2018) of Jefferson Farfán.

8. What is the best goal in the history of the World Cups?

The one from Diego Armando Maradona to England in Mexico 86. For the play, for the courage. He scored a goal that had a double connotation.

9. The best soccer memory?

The triplets with my old man at the National Stadium, sitting in the stands.

10. The saddest moment in football?

The fall of the Fokker with the Alianza Lima team.

11. What is the weirdest cabal you followed for a match?

When I started tattooing, something I always said I wasn’t going to do.

12. Pele or Maradona?

Both.

13. Messi or Cristiano?

Lionel Messi is the best because he does wonderful things.

14. The World Cup player you would never have on your team? Why?

To Australia goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne, for being a clown.

15. Do you think we will reach the next World Cup?

We will be there anyway.

16. Who do you think will win this World Cup?

France.

17. What female soccer player do you most admire?

The ‘9′ of Alianza Lima, Adriana Lúcar, and internationally Linda Caicedo, from Colombia.