One of the players there, Lisandro Lopez, said when I arrived: “Here’s this ‘young lad [Chiquito] Romero’.“ Ever since then, everyone around the world has come to know me as ‘Chiquito’.
When I was younger, I had another nickname, or ‘extra name’ as we say in Argentina, which people knew me as when I played at another club as a youngster. That was ‘Checho’ but, from 2004 onwards, it has always been ‘Chiquito’ and everyone knows me as that, including my team-mates here at United.
It isn’t strange when players like Juan Mata and Ander Herrera use the nickname.