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Sergio Aguero will always be remembered as one of the best and most important players in the history of Manchester City.
Sergio Aguero spent a glittering 10 years at Manchester City and was astonishing in several different eras.
The Argentine was already world-class when he arrived and remarkably clinched the Premier League in his first season.
But somehow he got even better under Pep Guardiola and managed to revolutionise his game on his way to becoming the highest foreign goalscorer in Premier League history.
But what else is there to know about Aguero? What does his nickname mean? What’s his relationship with Lionel Messi? What does he do after retirement? Who is his girlfriend?
We answer all those questions and more right here.
Sergio Leonel ‘Kun’ Aguero del Castillo was born on June 2, 1988, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
As of April 2024, he is 35 years old.
Sergio Aguero stands at 5 feet 8 inches (173cm) tall, which helped make him an incredibly quick striker in his playing days.
Sergio Aguero has an official Instragm account with 30.8m followers, on which he regularly shares pictures and videos from his career and offers a glimpse into his life.
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He also has an official X account which has over 16.7m followers.
No, they are not. Sergio Aguero was married to Giannina Maradona in 2008 and she gave birth to their son, Benjamin, in Madrid, in February 2009. The couple divorced after four years of marriage in 2012.
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Giannina Maradona is the youngest daughter of the late Argentina icon Diego Maradona. While the couple were married, Maradona was Aguero’s father-in-law. Maradonna died at age 60 in 2020.
According to The Sun, Aguero quickly moved on from his marrige and started dating Argentine singer Karina Tededa shortly afterwards.
He has also had flings with Italian model Zoe Cristofoli and reality TV star Taylor Ward but is now with current partner Sofi Calzetti.
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According to The Sun, Calzetti is Aguero’s first ‘confirmed girlfriend’ since Tejeda after the pair revealed their relationship on Instagram in 2019.
The Daily Mail reported in September 2023 that Aguero had broken up with the model after four years together after she was filmed allegedly kissing another man in a nightclub, though she denied it happened.
However, they have seemingly made amends as it was announced in March 2024 that the couple are expecting a baby daughter.
The pair shared an image on Instagram of them holding hands next to two pictures of Calzetti’s ultrasound.
The caption read: “Immense excitement! We’re waiting for you little girl.”
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During the break in football and world lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Aguero launched his own Twitch channel in which he streams himself playing video games.
Aguero’s channel, SLAKUN10, has 4.8m followers and he once even called Lionel Messi while live on air.
According to the Metro, he was briefly banned in 2023 after his channel was hit with a copyright strike.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Sergio Aguero’s net worth is £64.2m.
Sergio Aguero sadly had to retire at the young age of 33 just a few months after leaving City to sign for Barcelona.
The former striker was forced to stop playing the game due to a heart condition.
He was taken off in the first half in a match with Alavez in October 2021 after suffering chest pain and it was later discovered to be caused by an arrhythmia.
According to ESPN, he was advised it would be a risk to continue playing so he hung up his boots in December 2021.
In a press conference, Aguero said: “This conference is to announce I have decided to stop playing professional football.
“It is a very difficult moment. The decision I have taken for my health; the problem I had a month and a half ago.
“I have been in good hands with the medical staff. I made the decision 10 days ago after doing everything possible to have some hope of playing on.
“I am very proud for my career. I always dreamed of a professional career since the first time I touched a ball at 5.
“I want to thank Atletico Madrid, who took a chance on me when I was 18, and Manchester City — everyone knows who I feel about City and how well they treated me there.”
He played just five times for Barcelona but at least did manage to score his only goal in an El Classico against Real Madrid.
Sergio Aguero joined his first professional club as an 11-year-old and would play for just three more teams during his glittering career.
Manchester City paid £35m to Atletico Madrid to sign Aguero, according to the Independent, which turned out to be an absolute bargain.
Sergio Aguero scored an amazing 260 goals during his 10 seasons at the Etihad Stadium, making him the club’s record goal-scorer by a considerable distance.
It did not take Sergio Aguero long to start scoring his record tally in Manchester. The Argentine bagged a brace on his debut, and grabbed an assist, in a 4-0 win over newly promoted Swansea City.
Just like in his first game, Sergio Aguero marked his last Premier League match for City by scoring a brace after coming on off the bench.
The Blues destroyed Everton 5-0 on the final day of the season, with Aguero coming on for the final 25 minutes and getting the perfect send-off with two final goals.
The only Premier League team Sergio Aguero didn’t score against
Erling Haaland has scored against every Premier League opponent he has faced since signing for City, something Aguero wasn’t able to achieve.
But the legendary striker did come incredibly close, with just one team eluding him for a decade: Bolton Wanderers.
Aguero only came up against Bolton once, in his first start for the club, but didn’t score in the 3-2 win and was then left on the bench for the return fixture.
He did face Bolton when playing for Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Cup but was even unable to score in that match, in which he was sent off for spitting at Matty Taylor.
| Season | Appearances | Goals | Assists | Yellow cards | Red cards | Minutes played |
| 2011/12 | 48 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3,471 |
| 2012/13 | 40 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2,716 |
| 2013/14 | 34 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2,287 |
| 2014/15 | 42 | 32 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 3,201 |
| 2015/16 | 44 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3,523 |
| 2016/17 | 45 | 33 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3,503 |
| 2017/18 | 39 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2,933 |
| 2018/19 | 46 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3,370 |
| 2019/20 | 32 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2,092 |
| 2020/21 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 720 |
| Total | 390 | 260 | 72 | 32 | 1 | 27,817 |
| Club | Appearances | Goals | Assists | Yellow cards | Red cards | Minutes played |
| Independiente | 56 | 23 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4,112 |
| Atletico Madrid | 234 | 101 | 45 | 31 | 3 | 17,510 |
| Barcelona | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165 |
Caps |
Goals | Assists | Yellow cards | Red cards | Minutes played |
| 101 | 41 | 19 | 10 | 0 | 5,525 |
Yes, Lionel Messi is the godfather of Aguero’s son, Benjamin.
Aguero and Messi are long-term friends and often roomed together when travelling on away trips for Argentina.
Aguero was left ‘in shock’ when he discovered Messi was leaving Barcelona in the same summer he joined, via ESPN, and previously said on their friendship to Diario Sport: “He always complains, we are like an old married couple.
“I always fall asleep with the TV on and when I wake up the next morning he is always complaining to me.
“He arrives at the hotel and is instantly take a shower while I’m just sitting talking on my mobile phone.
“Then he will remind me that we need to go down to dinner and we do not have time.”
Messi wrote the foreword in Aguero’s auto-biography Born to Rise and said: “I can clearly remember the first day that I saw Kun, that moment has remained etched in my memory.
“Back then I didn’t know who he was or even what he was called, let alone that I would later meet him in person or that, from then on, we would become great friends.
“We roomed together at the Under-20 World Cup in Holland and we hit it off really well. So from that moment on, we have always shared a room together.
“Don’t worry we are just friends! When he is asleep I have to tiptoe to the toilet and stop my phone from vibrating in case it wakes him up. He is like a brother.”
Though he scored well over 400 goals in his remarkable career, Sergio Aguero will always be remembered for one goal above any other.
In his first season at City, Aguero clinched the club’s first Premier League title when he scored the last-gasp, stunning winner against QPR to send the Etihad into delirium.
It has already gone down as the best moment in Premier League history and it will take some topping.
Aguero always wore ‘Kun Aguero’ on the back of his shirt at City, above either his No16 or later his No10.
‘Kun’ became Aguero’s nickname in childhood, given to him by his grandparents, as they believed he resembled the character ‘Kum-Kum’ from the anime Wanpaku Omukashi Kumu Kumu, Aguero’s favourite show as a child.
Explaining the nickname to the BBC in 2008, Aguero said: “Kun actually represents a Japanese cartoon character from my favourite series that I used to watch as a child.
“I coined the nickname Kun because of my resemblance to the character, who was actually named Kum Kum.
“My grandparents were the first ones who gave me the name. I think my nickname is different in comparison to most athletes and so I have grown to appreciate it because it’s unique.
“It’s not everyday an athlete is nicknamed after a cartoon character!”
Speaking in February 2024, Aguero discussed what would have to happen if he were to make a heroic return to football.
He has joked that he expects to get a call from his boyhood club Independiente, who are now managed by former teammate Carlos Tevez, but while his health is progressing he is not cleared to return to the pitch.
He said, via The Sun: “Sometimes things are invented. I repeat that the cardiologist said that I am well, that it is important that I am in good health.
“But to return to training at the First Division level, I would need to undergo a lot of tests.”
Tevez would love him to link up with his side, he said: “Who doesn’t want to have Kun. I do – first as a team-mate and now as a coach, even if it was just for 10 or 15 minutes.”
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