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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ag\u00fcero and the second or maternal family name is del Castillo.

Sergio Ag\u00fcero

Ag\u00fcero with Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Personal information

Full name

\nSergio Leonel Ag\u00fcero del Castillo^[1]

Date of birth

\n2 June 1988 (age 36)^[2]

Place of birth

\nBuenos Aires, Argentina^[3]

Height

\n1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)^[4]

Position(s)

\nStriker

Youth career

\nLoma Alegre

\nLos Primos

1997\u20132003

\nIndependiente

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

2003\u20132006

\nIndependiente

\n54

\n(23)

2006\u20132011

\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid

\n175

\n(74)

2011\u20132021

\nManchester City

\n275

\n(184)

2021

\nBarcelona

\n4

\n(1)

Total

\n508

\n(282)

International career

2004

\nArgentina U17

\n5

\n(3)

2005\u20132007

\nArgentina U20

\n11

\n(6)

2008

\nArgentina U23

\n5

\n(2)

2006\u20132021

\nArgentina

\n101

\n(41)

Medal record

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Men's football\n
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Representing $\"\"$ Argentina\n
Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
Winner	2021 Brazil	\n
Runner-up	2015 Chile	\n
Runner-up	2016 United States	\n
$\"Third$	2019 Brazil	\n
FIFA World Cup\n
Runner-up	2014 Brazil	\n
Olympic Games\n
$\"Gold$	2008 Beijing	Team\n
FIFA U-20 World Cup\n
Winner	2005 Netherlands	Team\n
Winner	2007 Canada	Team\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sergio Leonel Ag\u00fcero del Castillo (born 2 June 1988), also known as Kun Ag\u00fcero,^[5] is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League.^[6]^[7]^[8] He played for Manchester City from 2011 to 2021 and is the club's all-time top goalscorer and holds the record for most Premier League hat-tricks, with 12.\n

Ag\u00fcero began his career at the Argentine club Independiente where, on 5 July 2003, he became the youngest player to play in the Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n at 15 years and 35 days, breaking the 27 year record previously set by future father-in-law Diego Maradona. In 2006, Ag\u00fcero moved to La Liga club Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in a transfer worth \u20ac23 million, establishing himself as one of the world's best young players and one of the most prolific players in La Liga, winning the Don Bal\u00f3n, the Golden Boy, and the World Soccer Young Player of the Year. Ag\u00fcero also won the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Super Cup while in Madrid.\n

Ag\u00fcero signed for Premier League club Manchester City in 2011 in a transfer for a reported fee of \u00a335 million. During his 10 years at the club,^[9]^[10] he won five league titles, notably scoring a last minute winner in the final league game of his debut season to win the club its first league title in 44 years. Further honours with the club include a record six EFL Cups and an FA Cup; he was also part of the club's first UEFA Champions League final. Ag\u00fcero won a Premier League Golden Boot and was twice included in the PFA Team of the Year. He is the fifth all-time Premier League goalscorer and the highest non-English scorer in the competition, with 184 goals. He held the record for the most Premier League goals scored by a player for any single club until it was overtaken by Harry Kane in 2022.^[11]^[12] In 2021, he joined Barcelona on a free transfer,^[13]^[14] before retiring from football aged 33 due to heart problems in the same year.^[15] He played just four matches for the club, with his only goal coming in the first El Cl\u00e1sico of the 2021\u201322 season.\n

At international level, Ag\u00fcero represented the Argentina under-20 team as they won the 2005 and 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cups.^[16] He played at the 2008 Olympics, scoring two goals in the semi-final against Brazil as Argentina won gold.^[17] Ag\u00fcero is Argentina's third-highest all-time top goalscorer and has earned over 100 caps, representing the senior team at three FIFA World Cups (in 2010, 2014 and 2018) and five Copas Am\u00e9rica (in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2021), winning the Copa Am\u00e9rica in 2021.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National Cup\n	League Cup\n	Continental\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n	Apps\n	Goals\n
Independiente\n	2002\u201303^[278]\n	Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\n	1	0	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	1	0\n
2003\u201304^[279]\n	Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\n	5	0	\u2014	\u2014	2^[a]	0	\u2014	7	0\n
2004\u201305^[280]\n	Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\n	12	5	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	12	5\n
2005\u201306^[281]\n	Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\n	36	18	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	36	18\n
Total\n	54	23	\u2014	\u2014	2	0	\u2014	56	23\n
Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\n	2006\u201307^[282]\n	La Liga\n	38	6	4	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	42	7\n
2007\u201308^[283]\n	La Liga\n	37	19	4	2	\u2014	9^[b]	6	\u2014	50	27\n
2008\u201309^[284]\n	La Liga\n	37	17	1	0	\u2014	9^[c]	4	\u2014	47	21\n
2009\u201310^[285]\n	La Liga\n	31	12	7	1^[d]	\u2014	16^[e]	6	\u2014	54	19\n
2010\u201311^[286]\n	La Liga\n	32	20	4	3	\u2014	4^[f]	3	1^[g]	1	41	27\n
Total\n	175	74	20	7	\u2014	38	19	1	1	234	101\n
Manchester City\n	2011\u201312^[287]\n	Premier League\n	34	24	1	1	3	1	10^[h]	5	0	0	48	31\n
2012\u201313^[288]\n	Premier League\n	30	12	4	3	0	0	5^[c]	2	1^[i]	0	40	17\n
2013\u201314^[289]\n	Premier League\n	23	17	3	4	2	1	6^[c]	6	\u2014	34	28\n
2014\u201315^[290]\n	Premier League\n	33	26	1	0	1	0	7^[c]	6	0	0	42	32\n
2015\u201316^[291]\n	Premier League\n	30	24	1	1	4	2	9^[c]	2	\u2014	44	29\n
2016\u201317^[292]\n	Premier League\n	31	20	5	5	1	0	8^[c]	8	\u2014	45	33\n
2017\u201318^[293]\n	Premier League\n	25	21	3	2	4	3	7^[c]	4	\u2014	39	30\n
2018\u201319^[294]\n	Premier League\n	33	21	2	2	3	1	7^[c]	6	1^[i]	2	46	32\n
2019\u201320^[295]\n	Premier League\n	24	16	2	2	3	3	3^[c]	2	0	0	32	23\n
2020\u201321^[296]\n	Premier League\n	12	4	0	0	1	0	7^[c]	2	\u2014	20	6\n
Total\n	275	184	22	20	22	11	69	43	2	2	390	260\n
Barcelona\n	2021\u201322^[297]\n	La Liga\n	4	1	0	0	\u2014	1^[c]	0	0	0	5	1\n
Career total\n	508	282	42	27	22	11	110	62	3	3	685	385\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
Argentina\n	2006	2	0\n
2007	4	1\n
2008	9	4\n
2009	6	2\n
2010	5	2\n
2011	8	5\n
2012	7	2\n
2013	8	5\n
2014	10	1\n
2015	10	10\n
2016	11	1\n
2017	4	2\n
2018	5	3\n
2019	8	3\n
2020	0	0\n
2021	4	0\n
Total	101	41\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n
1	17 November 2007	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Bolivia	1\u20130	3\u20130	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
2	26 March 2008	Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt	$\"\"$ Egypt	1\u20130	2\u20130	Friendly\n
3	4 June 2008	Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, United States	$\"\"$ Mexico	4\u20131	4\u20131	Friendly\n
4	6 September 2008	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Paraguay	1\u20131	1\u20131	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
5	11 October 2008	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Uruguay	2\u20130	2\u20131	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
6	28 March 2009	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Venezuela	4\u20130	4\u20130	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
7	12 August 2009	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	$\"\"$ Russia	1\u20131	3\u20132	Friendly\n
8	24 May 2010	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Canada	5\u20130	5\u20130	Friendly\n
9	7 September 2010	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Spain	4\u20131	4\u20131	Friendly\n
10	20 June 2011	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Albania	3\u20130	3\u20130	Friendly\n
11	1 July 2011	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina	$\"\"$ Bolivia	1\u20131	1\u20131	2011 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
12	11 July 2011	Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina	$\"\"$ Costa Rica	1\u20130	3\u20130	2011 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
13	2\u20130\n
14	15 November 2011	Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Mel\u00e9ndez, Barranquilla, Colombia	$\"\"$ Colombia	2\u20131	2\u20131	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
15	2 June 2012	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Ecuador	1\u20130	4\u20130	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
16	12 October 2012	Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina	$\"\"$ Uruguay	2\u20130	2\u20130	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
17	6 February 2013	Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden	$\"\"$ Sweden	2\u20131	3\u20132	Friendly\n
18	11 June 2013	Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador	$\"\"$ Ecuador	1\u20130	1\u20131	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
19	10 September 2013	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay	$\"\"$ Paraguay	2\u20131	5\u20132	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
20	18 November 2013	Busch Stadium, St. Louis, United States	$\"\"$ Bosnia and Herzegovina	1\u20130	2\u20130	Friendly\n
21	2\u20130\n
22	3 September 2014	Esprit Arena, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany	$\"\"$ Germany	1\u20130	4\u20132	Friendly\n
23	31 March 2015	MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, United States	$\"\"$ Ecuador	1\u20130	2\u20131	Friendly\n
24	6 June 2015	Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan, Argentina	$\"\"$ Bolivia	2\u20130	5\u20130	Friendly\n
25	3\u20130\n
26	4\u20130\n
27	13 June 2015	Estadio La Portada, La Serena, Chile	$\"\"$ Paraguay	1\u20130	2\u20132	2015 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
28	16 June 2015	Estadio La Portada, La Serena, Chile	$\"\"$ Uruguay	1\u20130	1\u20130	2015 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
29	30 June 2015	Estadio Municipal de Concepci\u00f3n, Concepci\u00f3n, Chile	$\"\"$ Paraguay	5\u20131	6\u20131	2015 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
30	4 September 2015	BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, United States	$\"\"$ Bolivia	2\u20130	7\u20130	Friendly\n
31	4\u20130\n
32	9 September 2015	AT&T Stadium, United States	$\"\"$ Mexico	1\u20132	2\u20132	Friendly\n
33	10 June 2016	Soldier Field, Chicago, United States	$\"\"$ Panama	5\u20130	5\u20130	Copa Am\u00e9rica Centenario\n
34	11 November 2017	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia	$\"\"$ Russia	1\u20130	1\u20130	Friendly\n
35	14 November 2017	Krasnodar Stadium, Krasnodar, Russia	$\"\"$ Nigeria	2\u20130	2\u20134	Friendly\n
36	29 May 2018	La Bombonera, Buenos Aires, Argentina	$\"\"$ Haiti	4\u20130	4\u20130	Friendly\n
37	16 June 2018	Otkritie Arena, Moscow, Russia	$\"\"$ Iceland	1\u20130	1\u20131	2018 FIFA World Cup\n
38	30 June 2018	Kazan Arena, Kazan, Russia	$\"\"$ France	3\u20134	3\u20134	2018 FIFA World Cup\n
39	23 June 2019	Arena do Gr\u00eamio, Porto Alegre, Brazil	$\"\"$ Qatar	2\u20130	2\u20130	2019 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
40	6 July 2019	Arena Corinthians, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil	$\"\"$ Chile	1\u20130	2\u20131	2019 Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
41	18 November 2019	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel	$\"\"$ Uruguay	1\u20131	2\u20132	Friendly\n

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Club career

Independiente

Atl\u00e9tico Madrid

2006\u201309: Transfer and fast rise to stardom

2009\u201311: UEFA Europa League win and departure

Manchester City

2011\u201312: Record transfer and Premier League win

Final game of the season

2012\u201313: Injuries and league runner-up

2013\u201314: Second Premier League win

2014\u201316: League top goalscorer and individual success

2016\u201320: All-time club top scorer, sustained domestic success

2020\u201321: Final season, European finalist

Barcelona and retirement

International career

Youth teams

Senior team

Debut, 2010 World Cup and 2011 Copa Am\u00e9rica

2014 World Cup, and 2015 and 2016 Copas Am\u00e9rica

2018 World Cup, 2019 Copa Am\u00e9rica, and 2021 Copa Am\u00e9rica

Style of play

Personal life

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

See also

References

External links

Sergio Agüero

Talks

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