How shining is Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero?
With his idea opposite Burnley, Sergio Agüero has turn Manchester City’s joint-all-time tip scorer, equalling Eric Brook’s 78-year-old record of 177 strikes from a club, scored from 1928–39. UEFA.com gives ‘Kun’ his due.
What they say
“When we arrived during Independiente they told me there was a materialisation in a academy. One day we called him in to sight with a initial organisation and he killed everyone. He assured us immediately.”
Oscar Ruggeri, former Independiente coach
“Playing with him was one reason we assimilated Atlético Madrid. I’d initial seen him on radio in Argentina, where he done his entrance aged 15 for my aged organisation Independiente. A child stood out opposite men. He scored one idea in a derby and we jumped adult off a lounge in astonishment. Agüero has a healthy instinct for scoring goals.”
Diego Forlán, former Atlético team-mate
“He’s a legend, and it’s a partial of story in a club. Agüero’s numbers pronounce for themselves – he is amazing.”
Josep Guardiola, Manchester City manager
Current tally
International: 82 appearances, 34 goals
UEFA bar competition: 86 appearances, 50 goals
European domestic competition: 409 appearances, 229 goals
Claims to fame
Atlético Madrid
• Agüero had a superb record in home games opposite Barcelona, scoring twice in a 4-2 feat in Mar 2008 and a double in a 4-3 thriller accurately 12 months later.
• He won a 2009/10 UEFA Europa League, induction dual essential divided goals that sent Atlético by to a quarter-finals during Sporting CP’s expense.
• Agüero totalled 75 Liga goals opposite 5 seasons with Atlético, reaching a 20-mark in 2007/08 and 2010/11.
Manchester City
• “Agüerooooooooo! we swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again!” commentator Martin Tyler famously yelled when, with 93:20 on a clock, City’s No10 scored a idea opposite Queens Park Rangers in May 2012 that won a Citizens their initial top-flight championship given 1968.
• Both of Agüero’s UEFA Champions League hat-tricks, organisation theatre to final, have come in a City shirt. His side were 2-1 down at home to Bayern München in Nov 2014 when a Argentinian general famously struck twice in a final 5 mins to finish his three-way and give City a shot during gift divided to Roma on matchday six.
• Agüero picked adult a Premier League Golden Boot for his 26 goals during 2014/15.
• Became a fifth actor to measure 5 in a singular Premier League diversion on Saturday 3 Oct 2015. With a Sky Blues trailing during home to Newcastle United, City’s categorical male struck 5 times in 21 mins possibly side of half-time as his side incited a 1-0 necessity into a 6-1 win.
• Became a 16th actor to strech 50 UEFA bar competion goals when he scored for City in their opening UEFA Champions League organisation theatre diversion of 2017/18 – a 4-0 win during Feyenoord.
• The second idea in his hat-trick in a successive joining game, a 6-0 success during Watford, was his 200th top-division strike given he came to Europe.
• Scored his 177th City idea – a chastisement in a home win opposite Burnley on 21 Oct 2017 – to compare Eric Brook’s 78-year-old bar record.
What we competence not know
• Agüero was given a nickname ‘Kun’, that he sports on a behind of his Manchester City shirt, as a child by his grandparents overdue to his similarity to a Japanese animation impression called Kum Kum from his favourite TV series.Â
• Agüero became a youngest debutant in a Argentinian initial multiplication when he was sent on as a surrogate for Independiente opposite San Lorenzo on 5 Jul 2003, usually a month after his 15th birthday.
• Agüero was a FIFA U-20 World Cup leader in 2005 and 2007. He was awarded a Golden Ball and Golden Boot during a latter contest in Canada after scoring 6 goals in 7 appearances.
• Agüero is not a fan of prohibited continue and likes a sleet in Manchester as it helps him get to sleep.
• Lionel Messi wrote a foreword to ‘Sergio Kun Aguero: Born to Rise: My Story’, that was published in 2014. He is Messi’s room-mate with a inhabitant team.
• Liverpool were Agüero’s choice of organisation on video games when he was a kid.
What he says
• “My nickname is opposite in comparison to many athletes and so we have grown to conclude it since it’s unique. It’s not each day an contestant is nicknamed after a animation character!”
“I like tricks, we like to dazzle. Dribbling and withdrawal your foe on his backside is what life is for. If we grasp what we wish to, afterwards I’ll symbol a graphic epoch in football. I’m a Che Guevara of complicated soccer.”
“[The final day of a 2011/12 season] was a crazy conditions since we knew a unfolding compulsory to win a pretension yet we felt I’d die if we didn’t win or that I’d kill myself if we blew a pretension chance! OK, maybe that’s a small dramatic, yet it felt like there would be zero to demeanour brazen to if we failed.”
What he competence grasp yet
• Win a vital UEFA foe prize with City. For all of their new successes, a club’s usually vital honour stays a 1969/70 European Cup Winners’ Cup – yet encouragingly, carrying won that now gone competition, they can demeanour to emulate Manchester United and finish a set in a future.
• Complete his set of English foe winners medals; during City he has won dual Premier League titles and dual League Cups, yet needs a FA Cup finish his collection.
• Win a vital foe with Argentina. Agüero and a Albiceleste have been a scarcely organisation in new summers, losing to Germany in a 2014 FIFA World Cup final and pang chastisement shoot-out defeats by Chile in a 2015 and 2016 Copa América deciders.
• Break into a tip 3 of Argentina’s many inclusive internationals. For now, Agüero (34) is turn with Diega Maradona and one idea bashful of third-placed Hernán Crespo. Messi (58) and Gabriel Batistuta (54) are initial and second respectively.