This goodbye is like a fish in the throat, but it has to be said to the whole world.
At 7 p.m. Beijing time on the 15th, Argentine striker Aguero, who plays for Barca, held a press conference to announce his retirement due to heart problems.
"I decided not to continue professional football, it was a very difficult decision" - Aguero was already choking up when he said this...
"My physical condition led me to make this decision, a month and a half ago I found out about a heart problem and the doctor told me the best option was to stop playing football. I finally made the decision 10 days ago and I want to tell everyone – I did everything possible to preserve hope, but it didn't work. ”
Aguero tearful press conference.
The length of the 18-year career has been "returned" for ordinary players, but for the 33-year-old "AKUN (Big Empty Wing)", it is still regrettable to hang up his boots in advance due to non-competitive factors.
As one of the spurting frontcourt geniuses of the Argentine team after 85, Aguero, whose career was once highly bound to Messi, may be the biggest regret of his career, perhaps as a club teammate, and play with the dead party.
But manchester City's hallmark firepower output and championship resume have already laid the height of Aguero's career. For the stormy Barca, the loss of an old father with good ability and good character is undoubtedly another disaster suffered by the team.
Aguero collapsed on the field due to heart problems.
Nightmare memories
Since 2020, Aguero's health has continued to shine red lights: in the 2020-2021 Premier League season, Aguero, who has a serious knee injury, has said goodbye in advance and undergone surgery.
Just when Aguero himself was particularly optimistic about the speed of recovery, the hamstring injury came to the door again – not only that Aguero was infected with the new crown virus at one time and could only act as a spectator at home.
Although he was known as an iron man in the early years of his career, he may have become a "precocious" professional player at the age of 15 and 35 days, overdrawing Aguero's health reserves in advance.
In the 2014 World Cup, Aguero, who was reimbursed in the quarter-finals, suffered one of the most regrettable major injuries of his career, and under the extraordinarily fierce confrontation scale of the Premier League, the stout Argentine was helpless to spend 60 games + busy season. By the time he moved to Barca this summer, he hadn't even had time to make his appearance at Camp Nou before his new club released an injury report.
It wasn't until mid-October that Aguero made his red and blue debut against Valencia; his only goal at Barca came in the national derby in stoppage time; against Vallecano, the only time the Argentine played a full game for Barca.
The battle with Alaves became Aguero's last nightmare to recall: before the first half of the kick, the Argentine man covered his chest and fell to the ground in pain, and after the game he was diagnosed with a non-benign arrhythmia.
Since then, the news that he will retire early due to heart problems has gradually become a storm in the city, and it is unfortunate to be fulfilled today.
Life is higher than football
Heart disease is common in football, and in recent years, it is not uncommon to have attacks and even tragedies.
After the sudden death of Vivian Foo in the semi-finals of the 2003 Confederations Cup, heart problems received widespread attention, but since then, Fahr, Puerta, Halke, Theot and Astori have unfortunately died suddenly due to heart problems, which has brought fans to tears.
For Aguero's condition, Fernandez Lozano, an authoritative professor of cardiology, analyzed: "Arrhythmias are divided into ventricular arrhythmias and supraventricular arrhythmias, the former being dangerous malignant arrhythmias, which means that he will not return to the field under any circumstances. ”
"He needs to undergo at least 3 months of repeated examinations to determine the type of disease. Now, less than a month later, Aguero has made the decision to hang up his boots, proving that the condition has reached a very complicated point and I am afraid that I can no longer devote myself to high-intensity competition. ”
It is true that Eriksen, the core of the Danish team who suffered a cardiac arrest at the European Championship this summer, is preparing to sign a contract with danchao Odense after undergoing treatment to compete in the final attempt of next year's World Cup; while NBA star Aldridge once announced his retirement on social media due to heart problems, after 4 months of treatment, he is still alive in the Nets.
But Barca's official decision to hold a retirement ceremony for Aguero seems to have proved that Aguero's condition is far more serious than the two.
On 13 May 2012, with Aguero's 93:20-es shoot-out, City defeated Queens Park Rangers 3-2 to beat Manchester United with a goal difference to win their first Premier League title.
The first man in Manchester City's history
Although he is now a real veteran, Aguero, who became famous earlier than Messi, is even more brilliant than his best friend.
In 2003, at the age of 15 years and 35 days, Aguero made his career debut in the red shirt of the independent team. After breaking several of Maradona's youngest records in Argentine football, he moved to Atletico Madrid as an adult, becoming Torres' successor and continuing the tradition of "Atletico Madrid", scoring 101 goals in 234 games.
In the 2011-2012 season, Aguero, who had just completed his first league 20+ season at Atletico, instantly caused a sensation when he switched to Manchester City.
That season, Aguero faced all the other Big5 goals, and the final league round of 92 minutes and 30 seconds to beat the Queen's Park Rangers, which became a classic moment in the Premier League for 30 years.
Accompanied by the super-long roar of the narrator "Aguerooooo", the stripped-down hero who celebrates the slaying, showing the rare domineering spirit of his career, Aguero is the most reliable gunner on the blue giant ship that has opened the championship route.
In 10 seasons at Manchester City, Aguero made 384 appearances in all competitions, scoring 257 goals, and was the double scorer king of the Blue Moon League and all fronts, far ahead of Brooke and Tommy Johnson, who were second and third, considering that the latter two were the legends of the 1920s, it is not an exaggeration to say that Aguero is the first person in Manchester City's history. After all, Aguero is also the holder of the Premier League foreign goal record.
Excluding the 2012-2013 season, which hit the rookie wall, only 17 goals were scored on all fronts, and City's season output has never been less than 23; until 2019, Aguero was the team's top scorer for eight consecutive seasons.
Although it was doubtful at the beginning of the franchise to adapt to the high intensity and fast pace of the Premier League, it turned out that Aguero, who had a keen sense of smell, first-class combination ability to combine people and balls, and made a decisive shot in front of goal, although it did not make fans adrenaline soar like Van Persie, Suarez and even Salah, but the Argentine won in efficiency and longevity.
Aguero is the first man in Manchester City's history.
The king of efficiency
Along with the gorgeous data is Aguero's humble, understated, peaceful personality.
Except for the breakdown of his marriage with Gianna Maradona at the beginning of his joining Manchester City, which was once on the front page of the Sun, the rest of the time, the Manchester City shooter was a real good mr. Good.
Whether it is in the early years facing competition with a number of strikers, or when Guardiola intends to correct Jesus and reduce his use of himself in the later stage, the Argentines are indifferent, and they are more supportive of the Brazilian little brother, always saying good things about their teammates in public, and they return with more eye-catching data.
In the Premier League 100-ball club, he scored an average of 1 goal per 108 minutes and is the king of efficiency. In addition, 12 hat-tricks and 9 monthly bests are also records that make the younger generations look up to the mountains.
However, in the years of Manchester City, Aguero still has great regrets: in the Champions League final last season, he was unable to reverse the team's deployment mistakes on the bench, and shed sad tears after losing to Chelsea.
Originally expected to be in the top three of the Premier League's historical top scorers, he finally failed to surpass Andy Cole with a difference of 3 goals, and the title of premier league foreign player goalscorer king is dazzling, but only the Premier League champion and the Golden Boot are blessed, and Aguero's talent is still regrettable.
Wu Lei took a group photo with Aguero and Messi.
The chicken ribs of the national team?
A often overlooked fact is that Aguero's national team career has been more bumpy than his best friend Messi, and the contrast with the club is more abrupt.
As the photo of Messi, Aguero and Wu Lei that has been circulating on the Internet so far shows, Aguero's youth is a real winner.
As early as 2005, Aguero won the World Youth Championship with Messi. In the summer of Beijing in 2008, Aguero was still one of the 18-man successfully defended Pampas Legion, and the youth team record of three crowns in four years was almost the only one among his peers.
However, in the 11 years since the completion of the first World Cup journey in 2010, Aguero, from youth to middle age, has always been awkwardly positioned in the national team - in the blue and white legions where small talents gather, Aguero is not a Higuain-style scarcity, and is often ignored or even ignored by successive managers.
Even if he once bore the aura of Maradona's son-in-law, he did not change his status as a substitute.
In 2014, Argentina returned to the World Cup final after 24 years, but Aguero, who was reimbursed in advance in the quarter-finals, although he played the most eye-catching performance of his adult team, he has no way to report to the country.
In the protracted selection battle before the 2018 World Cup, Aguero, who watched Benedetto, Divara and even Icardi take turns, repeated the fate of 8 years ago. Although the team's exit process is full of anger, Aguero, who is completely idle, seems to be out of the matter and has become a superfluous one.
Aguero and best friend Messi.
Copa America, merit is perfect
What is even more chilling is that due to the personal relationship with Messi, among the many rumors that smear Messi, the most eye-catching is that Messi decides the selection of teammates with personal estrangement, and Aguero, who lies on the gun for no reason, can only use self-deprecation to resolve the embarrassment: "If it is true as the outside world says, how can I only play and score goals in the national team?" ”
It is not difficult to explain why after argentina reached the top of the Copa America this summer, Aguero, who did not appear in the final, was even less excited than Messi - from the peak of the youth team to the trough of the adult team, Aguero, who is accustomed to cold and warm feelings, has waited for this moment to wait for the sky and the earth.
For Aguero, who is not difficult to compete for the 2022 World Cup roster, the Copa America is enough for him to complete his merits.
At the tail end of his career, Aguero's greatest wish is to fight side by side with Messi from 16 to 16 years, even if it is not for the championship, but for pure friendship and affection.
But the reality is always more cruel than the simple "AKUN" imagined - Messi, who could not renew his contract with Barca, tearfully cut off the red and blue love affair for 21 years, and just 4 months after Messi left the team, Aguero also ushered in the end of his career...
Perhaps, this is the creation of people. (Supine Braces/Yang Jian)
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