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Where did Cristian Gabriel Romero’s story with the ball begin? Victor “Quito” Romero, his father, says that it all began in the vacant lots where he played football with his cousins. In that geography of the Rivadavia annex neighborhood, south of Córdoba capital, Cristian spent hours kicking a ball. Rosa González, his mother, remembers that the birth of her third child came with a “complicated pregnancy” and had reasons: Cristian weighed 4 kilos and 250 grams. Aldana, his sister, smiles and says that as a child, instead of calling him Cristian, she would babble and say “Tuti”, sometimes “Cuti”… The nickname survived and gave him identity. Cristian Cuti Romero’s story is also the story of a shy person, almost invisible outside a football field. The man who imposes his presence in every game is someone who enjoys going unnoticed, who quietly designed his own dream: to live off football. His childhood was accompanied by a ball: in those scenes he was seen playing with all his cousins. Worried, his father would tell him to play slowly. “I told him not to hang out with his older cousins because they could hit him.” Cuti never listened, his thing was going in another direction. “He liked to go hard, like he does now. Then he grew up and those images come to mind,” confesses dad Quito, who smiles easily and still allows himself to get emotional when remembering those moments. Subscribe to LA NACION: https://bit.ly/2GU7jVv See more content at: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/ln-t58215 Follow us on: Facebook: / lanacion Twitter: / lanacion Instagram: / lanacioncom Thanks for watching. #CunadeCracks