The youngster from the Catholic University, who signed his first contract this year with the San Carlos de Apoquindo team, is one of the figures of Vinotinto in the global competition in the category.
The Catholic University is rubbing its hands while watching the Under-17 World Cup. The San Carlos de Apoquindo club considers the competition taking place in Indonesia as one of its most promising youth assets. It is not a Chilean, logically, since La Roja did not qualify, but a Venezuelan: Leenhan Romero.
The footballer, class of 2006, was the great figure of Vinotinto during the debut of the World Cup. He scored two goals in the Llaneros’ 3–0 win over New Zealand. In the 86th minute, Alejandro Cichero recovered and quickly cut into Romero. UC attacking midfielder He showed speed and good finishing ability to score 2-0 and the first in his personal account.
Then, in the sixth minute of addition (11 had been added), he beat the goalkeeper with a left-footed shot from the inside edge from the edge of the area. A very close shot which sealed the victory for the South American team. This is a historic victory for Venezuela , since it is the first in the World Cup in the category. He previously visited UAE 2013, where he failed to score three goals.
After this commitment, the newspaper El Universal, from the country of the plains, praised the performance of the team of young students, calling it a surprise factor. “Few people expected that Leenhan Romero, the boy who replaced (David) Martínez, would be the undisputed protagonist of the match. He scored a double, one better than the other,” they noted.
A long way
Romero’s good performance makes him think that next season he could win a place in Nicolás Núñez’s cast. In May this year, he signed his first professional contract with the Foothills institution. “I am very happy with this step that I have taken. Things went well for me. “I have to keep working,” he told Cruzados’ official channels after first establishing his signing with the club.
“Catholic University is an institution that first teaches you how to be a person and then the key elements to becoming a professional football player. Its very important. I want to continue with desire and humility to achieve exploits with the club,” he added on this occasion.
Leenhan Romero arrived in Chile at the age of 12. With his family, they left Maracay to try their luck in another country. He arrived at San Carlos de Apoquindo in 2020. After working in the Quilicura subsidiary, the coaches recommended him to the lower divisions. He took part in a week-long trial and was informed he had passed.
He spent a year training in the youth team and Ariel Holan He decided to add it to the work of the honor team. The trans-Andean strategist referred to the young Venezuelan in an interview with the Bolavip website. “He has the skills, he is dynamic and has very good foundations. From a training point of view, we don’t care about age. A 15-year-old boy recently made his debut for Arsenal. It is important that they play well and that the maturation processes are not violated if we take a boy to the First Division, even if he is younger,” he said.
His first training with the adult team was a moment he remembers vividly, as he described it to AS. “Rodrigo Astudillo called me around nine in the evening to tell me that he was training with the first team the next day. I couldn’t believe it, because at that time I was 15 years old and at my young age things happening like this for me is crazy,” he said.
“My teammates discovered it when they saw the photo on the club networks. They asked me why I didn’t tell them and the truth is that when I found out I didn’t think about it at the time. “I was just really happy,” he added.
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