Club Career
Romero made his debut with Racing Club de Avellaneda in the Argentine Primera División and at the end of his first season in 2007 was transferred to Dutch club AZ Alkmaar managed at the time by Louis van Gaal for a fee of 1.5M euros.
In the 2007–08 season, Romero made 12 appearances, initially being third choice behind Boy Waterman and Joey Didulica before making the first team spot his own starting with a debut on 30 September 2007 in a 2–1 loss against Heracles Almelo in which he also picked up a yellow card.
His European debut came in a 0–0 draw with Paços de Ferreira followed with another appearance in the group stage 1–0 win over Greek side AEL after goalkeeper Waterman was injured.
It took until the 23 February 2008 for a league clean sheet to be kept in a 0–0 draw against FC Twente. Afte a series of poor performances from Boy Waterman van Gaal selected Romero until the season's end with AZ finishing eleventh in the Eredivisie.
Romero achieved 18 clean sheets in the subsequent 2008/9 season until he broke his hand in the team locker room in frustration after a quarterfinal cup loss against NAC Breda. In April, his team became Eredivisie champions in the 31st round of matches, with three games to spare. He returned to first team action in April of that season to cap off a fine season in which AZ only conceded 22 goals, nine less than the next team in the division. Romero himself set a personal record of not conceding a goal for 950 minutes and thus setting the fourth longest stretch of time for goalkeepers not to have conceded a goal.
Romero played with AZ until the 22 August 2011 when he joined serie B side Sampdoria for an undisclosed fee estimated to be € 3.5 million. He debuted on 26 August against Calcio Padova but injured in September in a match against U.C. AlbinoLeffe returning to action in October and being an ever present in the side that eventually won promotion back to serie A.
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