Sergio Aguero scored the most memorable goal in Premier League History, an iconic moment, three minutes and 20 seconds into injury time against Queens Park Rangers in 2012. It was sealed. City of ManchesterHis first title in 44 years and guarantees that his name will always be associated with the extreme drama and excitement that football can bring.
But as the sports world reflects on Aguero’s career, decided to retire – at the age of 33 – due to heart-related health problems detect while playing for Barcelona in October, his definite target was denied Argentina international status will his general achievements usually warrant?
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Aguero, who left City for the Camp Nou at the end of last season after 10 years at the Etihad, is undoubtedly one of the greatest players to have shown in the Premier League. He’s tough, with the ability to score in or out of the box deadly, and boasts a right-footed shot with brutal power and precision. He overtook Thierry Henry to become the highest scoring non-British player in Premier League history, finishing with 184 more than his former counterpart. Arsenal striker 175. Aguero has also eclipsed Alan Shearer, the all-time Premier League goalscorer, by scoring 12 hat-tricks to overtake the former Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United Football Club striker number 11.
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There are more records, too. Aguero has the best minutes-to-goal ratio of any player who has scored more than 10 goals in the Premier League, with an average of 108 minutes; Henry is second with a goal in 122 minutes. The Argentinian is one of five players to have scored five goals in a single Premier League game – he scored it in a 66-minute match against Newcastle in October 2015 – and he failed. Wayne Rooney from the top spot by scoring more goals for a Premier League club than any other player.
Aguero manages 184 for Man City – one goal more than Rooney Manchester United. Aguero also shares the record with Henry of scoring 20 or more goals in five consecutive Premier League seasons. But despite all of the above – and five Premier League titles, six EFL Cups and FA Cups – Aguero still lacks the acclaim and recognition that the likes of Henry, Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah have all earned in the Premier League era.
Perhaps that’s because Aguero is happy to live under City’s radar, choosing not to pursue the broader appeal that comes with the commercial branding that Henry, Cantona and Ronaldo are all happy to embrace. And maybe he didn’t develop the mystique that Salah had nurtured in Liverpool by selectively choosing when he speaks and to whom. Salah knows his commercial value and exploits it expertly with polished interviews on Vanity Fair and Time, ensuring that he is exposed to a much larger audience than the world of sports .
Henry, Cantona, Ronaldo and Salah also benefited from spending their Premier League days in red. Despite the successes of City and Chelsea For more than a decade and a half, United, Arsenal and Liverpool have remained the biggest clubs with the most extensive fan bases in English football and the players who shine for those teams automatically become a Celebrities are on a different level than any other football team.
City have given us some of the most important players of the Premier League era – Aguero, David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure – but they’re not in the same league as Henry, Cantona, Ronaldo and Salah, or Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane when it comes to long-term attraction and recognition. That’s probably one reason behind Aguero’s status below the absolute elite, even if his incredible records and consistency prove he deserves to stand alongside them all. those names on the great team.
Until signing for Barcelona this summer, Aguero had not played for one of football’s historic mega-clubs. He signed with Man City after stepping on the world stage at Atlético Madrid, where he won the Golden Boy award given to the most exciting young talent in the game, before spending the next decade at the Etihad.
Aguero also spent 15 years playing for Argentina during the fallout period for one of the great football nations in the world and at a time when Lionel Messi declare all the focal points, for good and bad. When Argentina finally ended their 28-year wait for international success by winning the Copa America earlier this year, Aguero became a player who played just one minute in the team’s knockout campaign and spent the semi-finals. and final on the bench.
A move to Barcelona in the summer is tipped to give Aguero a fairy-tale end to his career, side-by-side with close friend Messi and just maybe winning the always-elusive Champions League. He’s in Man City. But Messi has left for Paris Saint-Germain before a ball was thrown and Barca began to descend into a spiral of chaos, on and off the pitch, where they sacked coach Ronald Koeman and failed to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League for the first time since. from the 2003-04 season.
Aguero’s move went awry before he asked to be substituted, four minutes before half-time, in 1-1 draw against Alaves in October because chest pains that turned out to be heart disease forced him to retire. After just five games for Barcelona and one goal – a belated consolation in lost 2-1 arrive Real Madrid, his only appearance in classic – it was a sad end to a glorious career for Aguero. (It’s also a bit odd considering Barcelona was the site of his shock in Manchester, with Barca president Joan Laporta also expected to be present to announce Aguero, which is his limited time. It’s at Camp Nou.)
But if you want to reflect on his greatness, skip the goal against QPR and consider everything else. That one goal made him a Manchester City legend, but it arguably overshadowed everything he should have been as a global star. Aguero’s record is the best, and he should be remembered for more than one crucial goal.
