Career
Football player career
Romano played in Argentina for Club Atlético Huracán before leaving for Mexico in 1980 to play for Club América. He played in other 7 Mexican clubs: León, Necaxa, Puebla, Querétaro, Cruz Azul and Atlante and Veracruz. He was a left footed player with a great talent for free kicks as well as extraordinary play maker.
His best times lived in Leon and the Atlante.
He retired as a player at Atlante last week of season 1994-1995 (Atlante 6-6 Puebla) with 2 goals. In total Romano signed 102 goals in the Football Mexican.
He is listed among the 100 best scorers of all time in Mexico. The same year he became the assistant coach for Ricardo Lavolpe of Club Atlas.
Cruz Azul qualified for the Mexican playoffs in Romano"s first season with the team, but lost to rivals América.
Romano has qualified for the play offs on six occasions for different teams. Romano was kidnapped on July 19, 2005 near Xochimilco, in Mexico City. He was then rescued on the night of September 21 of 2005, 65 days after the kidnapping, by agents of the Federal Investigation Agency (American Film Institute).
He returned to work a few days after.
He was named head coach of Club América on February 18, 2008 due to president Guillermo Cañedo White"s dismissal of Daniel Alberto Brailovsky after a run of disappointing results. He was presented as the head coach of Santos Laguna on December 5, 2009.
With the Santos Laguna, on his first tournament he got the team to the final, and on the second tournament he has the Santos on the first place on the table and of goals. He ceased to coach Santos Laguna on February
20 2011, after losing several home games and making obscene gestures at the fans.
On August 14, 2013 Rubén Omar Romano replaced Manuel Lapuente at Puebla.
