Career
Foreign the Brazilian football player, see Romero Mendonça Sobrinho. He is the only Paraguayan named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living football players in March 2004. Romero started his career at local club Sportivo Luqueño in 1977, by 1979 Romero"s consistent performances had earned him a place in the Paraguay national football team that played in the Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship and was considered one of the best players of the tournament along with Maradona.
In 1980 he joined now defunct New York Cosmos where he played alongside such greats as the Brazilian and German World Cup winning captains of 1970 and 1974 Carlos Alberto and Franz Beckenbauer.
In the 1980 Soccer Bowl he scored the game-winning goal of a 3–0 victory over Fort Lauderdale. Romero moved to Brazil to play for Fluminense where he was selected as the.
He became a fan favorite after leading the team to a Campeonato Brasileiro. In 1986 he was a key player in helping the Paraguayan national team return to the finals after a 28-year hiatus.
At the finals in Mexico, he scored against Iraq and the host nation in the first round.
After a short spell with Football Club Barcelona in Spain and a stint in Mexico with Puebla F.C. Romero returned to South America where he played out his career with Olimpia, Club Cerro Corá and Sportivo Luqueño in Paraguay and Louisiana Serena in Chile. During his career, he scored a little more than 400 goals. Romero is the equal 3rd highest goalscorer in the history of the Paraguay national team with 13 goals.
Romero is a politician for the Colorado Party in his native city of Luque and works as a city counselor
In September 2006 Romero made his debut as a rock singer in the Paraguayan music festival called "Pilsen Rock". He took the stage as a guest of the popular local band Revolber and sang the opening words of the song "Siete hermanos, 1 misil" in front of a crowd of 40,000.