Bernardo Daniel Romeo (born 10 September 1977) is an Argentine former

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who played as a striker. He amassed

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totals of 226 games and 85 goals, mainly at the service of San Lorenzo with whom he had three spells. He also spent four seasons in Germany with

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, in a 17-year professional career.

Club career

Born in

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, Romeo started his professional career in 1995 with

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, playing exactly 40 Primera División matches. He blossomed as a top-rate player with

San Lorenzo de Almagro Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Boedo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its football team, which plays in the Primera División, the first tier of the Argentine foot ...

, scoring 15 goals in only 17 matches in 2001's ''Clausura'', in an eventual league conquest. Romeo's performances caught the eye of German club

, and he continued to net at ease abroad, in two complete season plus two-halves, but came out empty in silverware (a

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notwithstanding). In January 2005, he was loaned to

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for six months, after which he was released. Having signed with another team in Spain and

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, in July 2005, Romeo scored four times in 24 matches as the

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se finished fourth, a best ever (tied). In the following season he was only a backup or third-string, ending up playing in as much games in the league and in the

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, netting against

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in a 3–1 home win with his team eventually reaching the last-four in the latter competition. In the 2007 summer, Romeo returned to Argentina and San Lorenzo, going on to eventually score more than 100 official goals (both spells combined) for them. He was released in July 2010, signing with freshly promoted

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International career

Romeo was influential as

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won the

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, scoring six times in seven contests in

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. He received, however, only four

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with the senior side, during three years.

Honours

Club

San Lorenzo *

: Clausura 2001 (also top scorer) *

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(also top scorer) Hamburger SV *

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Country

Argentina U20 *

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* at Fútbol XXI * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Romeo, Bernardo 1977 births Living people Footballers from Tandil Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent Argentine men's footballers Men's association football forwards Argentine Primera División players Estudiantes de La Plata footballers San Lorenzo de Almagro footballers Quilmes Atlético Club footballers Bundesliga players Hamburger SV players La Liga players RCD Mallorca players CA Osasuna players Argentina men's youth international footballers Argentina men's under-20 international footballers Argentina men's international footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Germany Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain People from La Plata Partido