Midfielder Romero aims for Impact’s opener after missing 2016 with knee injury
MONTREAL — Having Andres Romero back after missing an entire season will be almost like adding a new player for the Montreal Impact.
The Argentine midfielder feels at home in Impact blue and black, having been with the club for four years and winning the Guiseppe Saputo Trophy as the team’s most valuable player in 2014.
“I’m not 100 per cent yet but I feel very good and I’m very happy to be here with the group,” Romero said Tuesday after a 90-minute workout with his teammates on the synthetic turf at Olympic Stadium. “It was difficult. It was my first injury like this and I hope it was my last, but that part is gone and I’m looking forward.”
Romero, 27, hasn’t played in a game that counts since he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a game in Denver on Oct. 14, 2015. He was supposed to be out between six and nine months, but last August the club announced he would miss the rest of the season.