Football player Lukaku biography

Interesting facts biography Romelu Lukaku are one of the best forwards of the Belgian team. The athlete is known for his dimensions and pressure, for which he received the nickname Tan. The football player himself admitted that he was going to success “with anger in the heart”, promising his grandfather to take care of her mother, and that - that she would never cry.

Childhood and youth Romelu Menam Lukaku, like his brother Zordan, is a hereditary football player. Father, Roger, played for different Belgian teams, Adolfina's mother worked as a cleaner. When the desire to play football woke up in Romelu, his father had already ended his career. The family lived very poorly, some of the earned went to relatives to the Republic of Congo.

When, in addition to general education, Lukaku began to go to a sports school, his father was taken there as a youth coach. Moreover, parents allowed their sons to drive the ball if there are good marks. Roger gave Romel his boots, and in order to perform at competitions, the first coach bought shoes. Romelu began with local youth teams. The guy had to carry a birth certificate everywhere, since the parents of the other peers did not believe that such a tall and powerful boy did not confuse the age category.

At 14 I went out on the field in the youth and Anderlecht U, and there was a turning point in the biography of the football player. Romelu argued with the coach that he would clog 25 goals in six months. If it doesn’t work out, it will remain on the bench, and if he wins a bet, then the mentor will wash off the buses and bake pancakes for the whole team. A month before Christmas, a daring guy treated his friends with a treat.

In addition, Anderlecht on his birthday offered Lukaki a contract and an official car, and the family - a new house. Romelu held back the word given to his mother that life would change. The first thing Lukaku did was bought his favorite computer console and connected cable television to watch the final of the Belgium championship. From one of these views he was the basis of Anderlecht.

The young striker played in the Europa League for school graduation. Club football Romelu became a star in the first professional season - received the Golden Butsu as the best scorer of the country and was included in the national national team of a lawyer. The young football player was laid by Chelsea, Juventus and Manchester United. The “blue” approach to negotiations turned out to be more systemic, even Didier Drogb connected.

The game practice of Romelu in Chelsea was not impressive, the same Drogba and Fernando Torres were a priority at the coaching staff. In addition, from the balance of Belgian, the situation with a father who went to prison on charges of attacking a woman knocked out. Lukaku Sr. was hiding from justice, which only worsened his position, as a result was punished by correctional works.

The son found the best lawyer for his father, but the relationship between men was very deteriorated. Perhaps this fact influenced the decision of Chelsea to refuse Romel to consider the younger brother’s candidacy for inclusion in the main or duplicate composition. In Mm Romel, he went on a lease in the West Bromvich club, and from there to the Liverpool Everton.

In addition, Lukaku was recognized as the best scorer of the Europa League, exceeded the achievements of Graham Sharp, Dankan Ferguson in the quantity and stability of the balls, became the author of the fastest goal in the history of Everton. The Belgian striker signed a contract for 5 years with an extension option for another year and took a T-shirt with the 9th number in the new club.

Speaking in the team of “Red Devils”, Lukaku played in 96 matches and scored 42 goals on the gates of opponents, one of which became a football player in his career. Cooperation with the club lasted only 2 seasons. He became the most expensive acquisition of the “snakes” in the history of the club. The attacker’s contract was calculated before June 30. In the summer transfer window, Romelu became the player of Chelsea.

In the fall of the year, the football player fell into the short list of applicants for the Golden Ball. As a result, the striker took the place. Meanwhile, in the club, his relationship with the head coach Thomas Tukhel did not develop in the best way. In an interview, Lukaku criticized the tactics of the mentor, and also expressed a desire to return to Inter. Subsequently, the athlete apologized for his words, after which he was restored in the main team.

The Belgian national team at the World Cup, the striker of the Belgian team, competed with Cristiano Ronaldo himself in the number of goals scored. But the mission of Romelu, according to the head coach Roberto Martinez, was not to become the best scorer of the tournament, "he is here to help the team win the mundial." The Belgian national team defeated the teams from Panama and Tunisia, while the forward in each meeting was marked by a double, thereby repeating the achievement of Diego Maradona and Gary Lineker, established at the world championship of the year.

In June, Lukaku, having scored the ball into the gate of the Egyptian national team in a friendly match, became the record holder of Belgian football. Romelu, as one of the best scorers of the championship, received the Bronze Butsu.In the year, Romelu became part of the Belgian euro team in the group in the Belgian team met with the Russian team and won the striker opened an account in the minute of the match and dedicated his goal to the goal of Russia to his teammate under the “International”, Danish midfielder Christian Ericksen.

The football player spent his anniversary hundredth match on the field with the Czech team as part of the selection tournaments for the World Cup at this meeting athlete scored a goal to the opponent in the 8th minute. Personal life is the first and main friend and adviser to Romelu - mother. Adolfina, in fact, is the manager of Lukaku, although the athlete cooperates with the ROC Nation Sports agency, owned by the musician Jay-Z.

In the year, the football player began to meet with a girl - model Sarah Mens, daughter of Harry Mens, the Dutch broker and a popular TV presenter. The couple met in the USA during the vacation. In December, the chosen one of the athlete gave birth to a son, who was called Romeo Emmanuel. The couple broke up, which Sarah’s father stated by the press, the details of his personal life and the reasons for the gap were not reported.

It is known that she has African roots, older than her lover for 4 years, and also built a career in the tourism industry. True, after meeting Lukaku, Julia abandoned the work and took the duties of his personal assistant. The English media considered that the Belgian footballer of Congolese origin is a Muslim, but he is a devout Catholic. On its page on Instagram, the social network is prohibited in the Russian Federation, it belongs to the META corporation, which is recognized in the Russian Federation of an extremist football player posts photos from training matches.

And in August it became known that the athlete was ready to sign a contract with Inter and went to Milan to undergo a medical examination. However, the fans of the “snakes” were not perceived with enthusiasm, remembering that the football player easily parted with the club as soon as possible. To solve problems, a “crisis meeting” was even organized. Now the football player wears boots 46.5 sizes.

The athlete is a working foot left. But in childhood, the football player developed the right one, for this, in training, the guy took off his left boots. Romelu received a diploma in the field of tourism and PR, in addition, speaks 6 foreign languages. The heroic power of Lukaku growth cm and the weight of 80 kg at one time was the object of ridicule on Twitter, the football player was compared with the angry Marvel's Hulk.