Luka Romero makes history against Madrid: he is the youngest rookie in the First Division

The 83rd minute of Real Madrid-Mallorca on this 31st day is already the history of Spanish football. The person in charge has his own name, Luka Romero (Durango, 18-11,2004), since Wednesday June 24, the youngest debut ever in the First Division, at 15 years and 219 days. Nicknamed the Mexican Messi, the playmaker enjoyed a little while in which he could not help his team excessively, which he lost to Zidane's men. In any case, your comfort should not be less: improve the record of Francisco Bao Rodríguez 'Sansón', who premiered with Celta in 1939-40 at 15 years and 255 days.

Romero, who started training with the Mallorca first team on June 1, he had needed a LaLiga car to be summoned by Vicente Moreno, first against Villarreal and then against Leganés and Real Madrid. Not having reached the age of 16 and not having a professional contract for the same reason, it was necessary to resort to that route for this milestone to occur.

Born in Mexico and with triple nationality, Mexican, Argentine and Spanish, Romero is, in the words of Dani Pendín, Mallorca's second coach, “left-handed, quickie, rogue, bug, competitive … He has that prototype of an Argentine 10”. In the Balearic club, logically, there are many hopes placed on him and he has been taken care of for a long time. Two examples of this include the personal and the economic terrain: the entity covers the cats for renting the family home and pays him a salary of around 1,000 euros per month.

Mallorca hopes to be the club that finishes training this promising footballer project which has been monopolizing the interest of many suitors from Spain and abroad. The idea is, for next November, when Romero turns 16, to sign his first professional contract, with clause included. It is not ruled out, however, that an irrepressible offer truncates those plans …