Sergio Aguero Retirement: Aguero’s career achievements in18 years of professional Football – Barcelona had called a press conference today which saw Sergio Aguero make an announcement regarding his future. Club president Joan Laporta will accompanied the Argentine striker, indicating that he is retiring from football due to a heart condition that was first noticed in Barcelona’s game against Alaves on October 30. Follow Live football news & updates
Sergio Aguero ended his career with Barcelona but will forever be associated with Manchester City and in particular with the goal that won them the Premier League title in 2012.
Top Scoring overseas player in Premier League History:
Aguero is the top-scoring overseas player in PL history with 181 goals, a total that leaves him fourth on the all-time scorers’ list behind Premier League Legends Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney & Andrew Cole.
He became the leading foreign goalscorer during a 6-1 victory over Aston Villa in January 2020.
Most Premier League hat-tricks:
Sergio Aguero in the same match against Aston Villa claimed the record for the most PL hat-tricks, netting his 12th to beat Alan Shearer’s total of 11.
2nd highest for most Shots in the Premier League:
Wayne Rooney who left the Premier League in June 2018 had a total of 1,237 shots in front goal in his whole Premier League career and only Sergio Aguero with 1,015 shots
10 major trophies with Manchester City:
During his time in Manchester, Sergio Aguero won an impressive four Premier League titles, an FA Cup and five League Cups in his 10 year stay at Manchester City.
“The facts speak for themselves – Sergio is quite simply the most ruthless striker in the history of the Premier League. It is extraordinary that his statistics, more reflective of two careers, are in fact those of a player whose time in the game was cut short.” pic.twitter.com/JMx9syu3xS
— Manchester City (@ManCity) December 15, 2021
Manchester City’s All-time leading goal scorer:
In 2017 he became the club’s all-time leading goal scorer, overtaking Eric Brook, who had led City’s goal scoring charts for 78 years. In total, he has bagged 260 goals in 390 appearances. He is known as one of the greatest players of the Premier League era and is the competition’s most lethal goal scorer in terms of goals scored per minutes played.
Kun joined City from Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2011 and made an immediate impact, scoring two and assisting one in a brilliant 30-minute cameo against Swansea on his debut.
It was a sign of things to come. He scored 30 in his first season, including the winner against QPR on the final day of the season that sealed the Club’s first league title in 44 years in dramatic circumstances, which is widely considered to be the greatest Premier League moment of all time. He scored 28 in 34 games as City won the Premier League again two years later, despite an injury hampering the second half of his campaign.
Sergio Aguero Retirement: Aguero’s Career achievements in 18 years of Football; Check out all his major accomplishments
Aguerooooooooo:
On May 13, 2012, Roberto Mancini’s City came into the final day of the Premier League season ahead of rivals Manchester United at the top of the table only on goal difference.
With United winning 1-0 at Sunderland and City losing 2-1 at home to Queens Park Rangers going into the 90th minute, it looked like a first league title since the Abu Dhabi takoever of 2008 would escape them.
But Edin Dzeko headed in the equaliser before Mario Balotelli pushed the ball into the path of Aguero to score the most dramatic of winners. “I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again,” said Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler, and the goal has gone down as arguably the most iconic moment in the history of modern English football. There is even a 93:20 lounge at City’s Etihad Stadium in a nod to the timing of Aguero’s dramatic title-clinching winner.
AGUEROOOOOOO
A true Premier League legend has retired today ⭐️
Congratulations on a great career @aguerosergiokun 👏
— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) December 15, 2021
Aguero at Atletico Madrid:
The impish forward was sold to Atletico in 2006 for a reported club record fee of over 20 million euros. He was just 18 when he first appeared for Atletico, coming off the bench to make his La Liga debut up front with Fernando Torres. He scored 74 La Liga goals for them having won the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup in 2010.
Sergio Aguero Retirement: Aguero’s Career achievements in 18 years of Football; Check out all his major accomplishments
Success with Argentina: Aguero helped Argentina win the Copa America in Brazil in July, their first major international trophy since 1993. He won his 100th cap in a 4-1 win over Bolivia in the group stage but played just one minute in the knockout phase and was an unused substitute in the final. It was the second medal of his international career, though, as he also helped his country win Olympic gold alongside the likes of Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria in Beijing in 2008.
Breakthrough at Independiente: The record seven-time Copa Libertadores winners are one of Argentina’s traditional giants and the club where he broke through as a youngster. Aguero made his debut in the red shirt of Independiente aged just 15 in 2003 and thus surpassed the late, great Diego Maradona as the youngest player to play in the Argentine top division.
Barcelona: Aguero signed a two-year deal with Barcelona in May, attracted by the prospect of teaming up with his friend Messi. They never played together, however. With the Catalan club in crisis, Messi departed for Paris Saint-Germain in August.
Because of injury, Aguero didn’t appear in a Barcelona shirt until October. He played just five matches, once from the start, before being taken to hospital with breathing problems after a match against Alaves on October 30 and being diagnosed with a heart condition.
Sergio Aguero Retirement: Aguero’s Career achievements in 18 years of Football; Check out all his major accomplishments
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