Usually occurs.
No matter how global football is today, no matter how simple it is for a spectator to watch a Spanish League match as it is to watch a Serie A, Premier or Bundesliga match, the national talent that plays outside our borders always has less recognition from the it deserves.
It appears less in the news, social gatherings, newspapers ... and, therefore, there is less.
And if you have not had an important previous career in one of the main clubs in Spain, your relative anonymity is even greater.
And so there are paradoxes like that of
Luis Alberto Romero
.
While in his country of birth nobody notices his absence in
Luis Enrique's
plans
, in Rome nobody understands how one of his best footballers has practically no international career.
Two calls for four games is his little background with the selection.
16 minutes in a friendly against Costa Rica in November 2017 under the orders of
Julen Lopetegui
, the only participation that will include his international record, at least for now, already 28 years old.
His numbers, however, speak of the Lazio midfielder as one of the best Spanish players this season.
In their demarcation, only
Marcos Llorente
and
Sergio Canales
, nine goals each, surpass - in top-level leagues - the seven that Luis Alberto has scored with Lazio.
Only in the 2017/18 season, the best of his entire career, did he exceed such production.
And with almost half a year to go, he still has plenty of time to beat that 12-point mark across all competitions.
If he succeeds, and despite the fact that there are many and very good candidates, it will be difficult for Luis Enrique not to make a hole for him in the next European Championship.
Confinement in solitude
Despite their fantastic numbers and Lazio's good overall performance - it is only the third time in their history that the Roman side have made it through the Champions group stage - Luis Alberto's season has not been easy on a personal level.
At the end of October, he tested positive for coronavirus, which forced him to miss two Champions League matches and one in Serie A. The pandemic already forced him to spend solitary confinement in Rome, since both his wife and two children were in Seville at the beginning of March and could not get together until international restrictions were lifted.
Later, he was involved in a controversy with the club's management, chaired by the always controversial
Claudio Lotito
.
The purchase of a plane was the trigger.
They could pay us.
They buy things and they don't pay us, "he denounced during a Twitch direct and added on Instagram:" Everything is very nice, but when do we take care of what's inside? "
"I have always said what I think and I assume my responsibilities, I have said nonsense," he apologized later.
And in good faith he says what he thinks: in recent days, he has shared tweets criticizing
Pablo Hasél
and the riots that have occurred in several Spanish cities as an alleged protest reaction to his imprisonment.
His last negative incident of the season came just a month ago.
When he was most fit, five goals in the previous six games, he suffered appendicitis, leaving him out of a league game and two in the Cup, in which Lazio was eliminated by Atalanta, Real Madrid's rival.
The match against Bayern comes full of motivation, after scoring a goal on Saturday that gave Lazio victory against Sampdoria, placing them just two points behind third place.
50 million
Formed in the quarry of Sevilla -club in which he barely played 200 minutes in nine games-, his performance has made him appear in several markets on
Monchi's
agenda
, without his return ever coming to fruition.
Now, with a contract until 2025, it seems complicated that a club like Seville can face the transfer of a footballer valued, according to Transfermarkt, at 50 million euros.
A price that can skyrocket if Lazio manages to surprise Bayern to sneak in for the second time in its history in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
The doubts that the current champion has thrown in recent weeks and his absences -
Müller, Pavard, Tolisso, Gnabry and Douglas Costa
- feed the hopes of the
Simone Inzaghi team
, which also has
Pepe Reina
and
Patric Gabarrón
in its ranks
.
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