First contacts for Luka Romero, the 15-year-old jewel of Mallorca, to play for Spain

The president of the Management Commission of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Miquel Bestard, admitted this Tuesday that he had “spoken a couple of times” with the young Argentine-Mexican talent from Mallorca Luka Romero (11-18-2004 , 15 years old, Durango, Mexico) to try to convince him to play in the lower categories of the Spanish National Team.

“I know that they (his family) want me to play for Argentina. It is an issue that has to be worked on, although we have the advantage that it is here (in Mallorca), “Bestard explained in statements to IB3 Television.

Luka was born in Durango (Mexico), has a Spanish passport and defended Argentina's Albiceleste shirt in the South American U-15 past. He decisively settled any doubts about the country he wants to represent: “My whole family is Argentine; my dream is to wear the national shirt”, he pointed out.

The young Mallorcan pearl made history last season in the Real Madrid-Mallorca match played at the Alfredo Di Estéfano stadium. He entered the field in the second half and became the youngest footballer in Spanish football when he made his debut at 15 years and 229 days, surpassing a record of 81 years ago (December 31, 1939) that belonged to the Celtic player Francisco Bao 'Sansón' (15 years and 255 days).

Luka is already part of the first team and the vermilion coach Luis García Plaza has given her the title in several of the friendly matches of the preseason: “He is a player that I like a lot. He is young and I think we have a real pearl. We have to take small steps forward. He has made me fall in love,” confessed the Madrid coach.