Sergio Aguero

Sergio Aguero
Sergio Aguero (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Sergio Leonel Aguero del Castillo
birthday	June 2nd, 1988
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size	172 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1997-2003	CA Independiente
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2006	CA Independiente	53 0(23)
2006-2011	Atlético Madrid	175 0(74)
2011–	Manchester City	263 (180)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006–	Argentina	97 0(41)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 18, 2018

Sergio Leonel Aguero del Castillo [ aˈɣweɾo ] (also Kun Aguero , born June 2, 1988 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine football player . He has been under contract with Manchester City in the English Premier League since 2011 and is an Argentine international .

Career

societies

Agüero began his career in 1997 in the youth of the Argentine first division club Club Atlético Independiente from Avellaneda in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires .

Independiente

Aguero made his debut in the A-team of Independiente on July 7, 2003 in a game against CA San Lorenzo de Almagro . At this point he was 15 years, one month and three days old, holding the record as the youngest player in the Argentine Primera División .

Atlético Madrid

Sergio Agüero in the Manchester City shirt (2014)

In 2006, various clubs from Europe were interested in signing Agüero for the 2006/07 season. He finally moved in late May 2006 for 23 million euros from Independiente in the Spanish Primera División to Atlético Madrid . He scored his first league goal in his third league game on September 17, 2006 against Athletic Bilbao .

In 2010 he won the UEFA Europa League with Atlético by defeating Fulham 2-1 in the final. As a result, Atlético Madrid qualified for the UEFA Super Cup . The game against Inter Milan could then also be won, with Agüero scoring the goal to make it 2-0.

At the beginning of January 2011, he extended his contract, which ran until June 2012, prematurely by two more years until June 2014. Only four months later, in May 2011, Agüero announced that he wanted to leave Atlético Madrid. He had placed third in the list of top scorers in Spain behind Cristiano Ronaldo (40 goals) and Lionel Messi (31) and together with Álvaro Negredo ( Sevilla FC ) with 20 goals.

Manchester City

In July 2011, Aguero moved to the English Premier League club Manchester City , where he signed a five-year contract. According to media reports, the transfer fee was 43 million euros. Already in his first game for his new club Aguero was against Swansea City scored two goals and another goal to prepare . In the decisive game for the championship on May 13, 2012, Aguero scored the goal to 3-2 against Queens Park Rangers in stoppage time . With this hit Manchester City won the English championship for the first time in 44 years.

In the 2014/15 season he scored 26 goals in 33 games of the season and was thus the top scorer in the Premier League.

His contract with Manchester City runs until 2021.

In the national team

Agüero (right) in a duel with Mats Hummels at the 2014 World Cup final

With the youth selection of the Argentine national team , he won, among other things, the junior soccer world championship in 2005 in the Netherlands. Aguero played his first game in the Argentine national team on September 3, 2006 against Brazil when he came on for Carlos Tévez .

At the Junior World Cup in 2007 he won first place with the Argentine national team, where he scored his team's equalizer in the final. In addition, he was voted the best player of the tournament and won the Golden Shoe as the most successful goalscorer (six goals and four assists).

In August 2008 he won the Olympic soccer tournament in Beijing with the Argentinian selection . Agüero scored two goals in the semi-final win against Brazil in this tournament .

At the 2014 World Cup , he was one of the “Four Fantastics” of the Argentine national team with Lionel Messi , Ángel Di María and Gonzalo Higuaín . He reached the final with Argentina, in which Germany lost 1-0. After the lost Copa America final, he announced his resignation from the national team together with Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano, which he revised again.

He was part of the national team of Argentina for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In the penultimate World Cup preparation game against Haiti, he scored the last goal to make it 4-0 after a long injury break after Messi presented him. In the subsequent tournament, the team was eliminated after a 3: 4 defeat in the round of 16 against France. Agüero scored a total of two goals in the four games.

While Agüero was still on the bench in the 1-0 win over Brazil in the Superclásico de las Américas on November 15, 2019 in Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia ), he played in Tel Aviv ( Israel ) on November 18, 2019 at America's oldest Superclásico against Uruguay (final score 2-2). He scored the 1: 1 equalizer with a header.

Achievements and Awards

society

Atletico Madrid (2006-2011)

• UEFA Europa League : 2010
• UEFA Super Cup : 2010

Manchester City (2011–)

• English champion : 2012 , 2014 , 2018 , 2019
• English cup winner : 2019
• English league cup winner : 2014 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020
• English Supercup winner : 2012 , 2018

National team

• Junior World Champion : 2005 , 2007
• Olympic Champion : 2008
• World Championship : 2nd place 2014
• Copa América : 2nd place in 2015 , 2016

Personal honors

• Tuttosport Golden Boy : 2007
• Best player in the Junior World Cup : 2007
• Top scorer at the Junior World Cup : 2007
• Best foreign player in the Primera División : 2008
• Argentina's Footballer of the Year : 2009
• World Soccer Young Player of the Year : 2009
• Premier League top scorer : 2015
• PFA Team of the Year : 2017/18 , 2018/19

family

Agüero was in a relationship with Giannina Maradona, the daughter of the former Argentine national player Diego Maradona . Together they have a son who was born in 2009. The two separated in January 2013. His nickname "Kun" which he also carries on the jersey comes from his grandfather and goes back to an alleged resemblance to the figure Kum Kum from the Anime -Cartoon- Wanpaku Omukashi Kumu Kumu , Agüeros Favorite show as a child. “I like it because it's unique. It doesn't often happen that someone is named after a cartoon character. "

Web links

Commons : Sergio Agüero  - Collection of Images

• Official website (Spanish and English)
• Sergio Agüero in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sergio Agüero in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Sergio Agüero in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Sergio Agüero on the Manchester City website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF
2. ↑ La hora de partir ( Memento of November 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Manchester City: Sergio Aguero joins Manchester City
4. ↑ kicker online: Aguero signs with the Citizens for five years
5. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Manchester City - Swansea City (accessed on August 29, 2011)
6. ↑ AGUERO EXTENDS CITY CONTRACT on the Manchester City website, accessed September 21, 2018
7. ↑ Report: World Cup out for Argentina's striker Agüero. Retrieved December 19, 2014 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Superstar Messi saves Argentina a draw against Uruguay. November 18, 2019, accessed November 18, 2019 . 
9. ^ A. Burgo: Uruguay-Argentina: muertos y treguas del superclásico más antiguo de América . In: El País . August 30, 2017, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed November 18, 2019]).
10. ↑ Found at www.thesun.co.uk
11. ↑ https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sergio-aguero-on-how-kun-4501690