Romerito

**Julio César Romero** (born 28 August 1960) is a former Paraguayan football player. He has played for Paraguay national team.

## Club career statistics

|-
|1980||rowspan="4"|New York Cosmos||rowspan="4"|NASL||32||14
|-
|1981||21||4
|-
|1982||21||6
|-
|1983||25||10

|-
|1984||rowspan="5"|Fluminense||rowspan="5"|Série A||12||5
|-
|1985||17||5
|-
|1986||9||0
|-
|1987||15||3
|-
|1988||25||6

|-
|1988–89||Barcelona||La Liga||7||1

|-
|1989–90||Puebla||Primera División||13||2
99||34
78||19
7||1
13||2
197||57
|}

## International career statistics

|-
!Total||34||13
|}

## International goals

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|31 October 1979|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil||**2**–2|2–2|1979 Copa América|
|2.|28 November 1979|Asunción, Paraguay||**1**–0|3–0||
|3.|**3**–0||||||
|4.|31 May 1981||**3**–0|3–1|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification||
|5.|5 October 1983|Lima, Peru||**?**–0|2–0|Friendly|
|6.|7 October 1983|Asunción, Paraguay||**?**–?|4–1||
|7.|**?**–?||||||
|8.|9 June 1985|Asunción, Paraguay||**3**–0|3–0|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification|
|9.|23 June 1985|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil||**1**–1|1–1||
|10.|27 October 1985|Asunción, Paraguay||**2**–0|3–0||
|11.|17 November 1985|Santiago, Chile||**2**–1|2–2||
|12.|4 June 1986|Toluca, Mexico||**1**–0|1–0|1986 FIFA World Cup|
|13.|7 June 1986|Mexico City, Mexico||**1**–1|1–1||

## Honours

**New York Cosmos**
- NASL: 1980, 1982

**Fluminense**
- Série A: 1984
- Campeonato Carioca: 1984, 1985

**Barcelona**
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1988–89

**Puebla**
- Primera División: 1989–90
- Copa Mexico: 1989–90

**Olimpia Asunción**
- Torneo República: 1992

**Paraguay**
- Copa América: 1979

**Individual**
- South American Footballer of the Year: 1985; Silver Award: 1979
- South American Team of the Year: 1986
- Paraguayan First Division top scorer: 1990
- FIFA top 125 greatest living footballers: 2004

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Romerito
- **fullname**: Julio César Romero Insfrán
- **height**: 1.73 m
- **birth place**: Luque, Paraguay
- **position**: Attacking midfielder
- **years1**: 1977–1979
- **clubs1**: Sportivo Luqueño
- **caps1**: 113
- **goals1**: 33
- **years2**: 1980–1983
- **clubs2**: New York Cosmos (1971–1985), New York Cosmos
- **caps2**: 104
- **goals2**: 37
- **years3**: 1983–1988
- **clubs3**: Fluminense FC, Fluminense
- **caps3**: 211
- **goals3**: 59
- **years4**: 1989
- **clubs4**: FC Barcelona, Barcelona
- **caps4**: 7
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 1989–1990
- **clubs5**: Puebla F.C., Puebla
- **caps5**: 81
- **goals5**: 16
- **years6**: 1990–1991
- **clubs6**: Sportivo Luqueño
- **caps6**: 35
- **goals6**: 11
- **years7**: 1992
- **clubs7**: Olimpia Asunción
- **caps7**: 24
- **goals7**: 9
- **years8**: 1993–1994
- **clubs8**: Sportivo Luqueño
- **caps8**: 43
- **goals8**: 13
- **years9**: 1995
- **clubs9**: Deportes La Serena
- **caps9**: 3
- **goals9**: 1
- **years10**: 1995
- **clubs10**: Club Cerro Corá
- **caps10**: 1
- **goals10**: 0
- **years11**: 1996–1998
- **clubs11**: Sportivo Luqueño
- **caps11**: 66
- **goals11**: 33
- **totalcaps**: 626
- **totalgoals**: 180
- **nationalyears1**: 1979–1990
- **nationalteam1**: Paraguay national football team, Paraguay
- **nationalcaps1**: 64
- **nationalgoals1**: 26