When Alejandro “Kaku” Romero Gamarra was told about the importance of family at the club, he knew he was coming to the right place.
“That is what I want, that we become a great family and that we can make it far,” Kaku said through a translator.
Family, for Kaku, goes beyond just his teammates on the pitch.
“All the feedback we’ve ever gotten about Kaku, from every single person that has ever known him, is about what an incredible person he is,” Head Coach Jesse Marsch said. “You learn about the fact that he’s from a family of 13 children, and you learn about the responsibility he feels to his big family, and the kind of value system he has.