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Explosive and intelligent, Sergio Agüeros skills, honed on a dirt pitch in Argentina, then at Independiente and Atlético Madrid, are now reaching their peak for City as striker and playmaker
Agüero scores the winner to clinch title in 2012As Manchester City celebrated winning the league title in 2012, a number of their players festooned themselves in flags. Edin Dzeko wore the blue and yellow of Bosnia, Mario Balotelli the red, white and green of Italy and Aleksandar Kolarov the red, white and blue of Serbia. Sergio Agüero, the player whose goal deep into injury time had sealed the title, also draped a flag across his shoulders, but it wasnt the blue and white of Argentina: his cape was red, the colours of his first club, Independiente. Thats where I was born, he said. And thats where Ill end my career.
Agüero grew up in Los Eucaliptos, a villa miseria in the south of Buenos Aires. His family was poor. There were days when dinner was maté, a herbal tea, and stale bread. Most of his friends from those days, he has said, are now in jail. In that regard he fits perfectly the model drawn by Borocoto, the editor of El Grafico, in 1928. If a statue was erected to the spirit of Argentinian football he said, it would be a pibe (kid) with a mane of hair, intelligent, roving, trickster and persuasive eyes and teeth worn down by eating yesterdays bread.
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Agüero scores the winner to clinch title in 2012As Manchester City celebrated winning the league title in 2012, a number of their players festooned themselves in flags. Edin Dzeko wore the blue and yellow of Bosnia, Mario Balotelli the red, white and green of Italy and Aleksandar Kolarov the red, white and blue of Serbia. Sergio Agüero, the player whose goal deep into injury time had sealed the title, also draped a flag across his shoulders, but it wasnt the blue and white of Argentina: his cape was red, the colours of his first club, Independiente. Thats where I was born, he said. And thats where Ill end my career.
Agüero grew up in Los Eucaliptos, a villa miseria in the south of Buenos Aires. His family was poor. There were days when dinner was maté, a herbal tea, and stale bread. Most of his friends from those days, he has said, are now in jail. In that regard he fits perfectly the model drawn by Borocoto, the editor of El Grafico, in 1928. If a statue was erected to the spirit of Argentinian football he said, it would be a pibe (kid) with a mane of hair, intelligent, roving, trickster and persuasive eyes and teeth worn down by eating yesterdays bread.
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