Romero is again all the way down to Earth at Spurs after Argentina’s World Cup triumph – and the much more madcap victory parade the place the gamers needed to be airlifted to security by way of helicopter.
The 24-year-old centre-back will characteristic in Spurs’ Premier League conflict with Aston Villa in north London on New Yr’s Day, with Conte admitting the World Cup triumph will solely crank up Romero’s on a regular basis footballing strain.
“He must know very well that a more difficult period will now start for him,” mentioned Conte.
“Because this expectation is going to become high for him, and for this reason he has to work much harder and he must not lose the desire to improve himself.”
Argentina edged out France 4-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw within the World Cup last on December 18, handing Lionel Messi the dream international triumph to cap his glittering profession.
Romero and team-mates rightly revelled in that triumph, each for the victory parade and for a number of days afterwards.
Conte insisted that Romero has returned to Spurs obligation in high quality psychological vogue nonetheless, with the Cordoba-born defender in line to characteristic towards Villa.
“From what I saw in the last few days in the training sessions, I have seen him with great focus, and with great desire to come back and to play with us, and to go with this mind into Tottenham situation,” mentioned Conte.
“For sure I’m really happy for him, for us it’s important to have in our team a World Cup champion, Cuti, to go along with Hugo [Lloris].”
Romero’s return will increase Tottenham’s choices in central defence, with Conte insisting rotation will probably be the secret to deal with a busy begin to 2023.
“You know very well last season we played with Dier, Cuti and Davies, on the bench was usually Tanganga or Sanchez and Joe Rodon,” mentioned Conte.
“We sent Rodon to play to have more time this season, and we made a substitution with Clement Lenglet.
“I think all of these players have to be able to play, and we work every day with all of these players. And for sure the moment that one player can be in a good form, another maybe needs a bit of rest to recover well, because maybe mentally he’s a bit tired, or physically, but I trust in my players.
“We work with them every day to improve the situation.”
