Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero has retired from football with immediate effect due to health reasons. Argentine striker Aguero says goodbye to football with a heavy heart. Earlier on October 30, the 33-year-old walked off the field with a hand on his chest during Barcelona’s match against Alavés in the Spanish league La Liga. After that, he did many tests related to the heart. One of the world’s most popular players, Aguero joined Barcelona in the off-season after playing for Manchester City for 10 years.
Sergio Aguero held a press conference at Camp Nou to announce his retirement, where he said: “This news conference is to communicate that I’ve decided to stop playing soccer. It’s a very hard moment but I’m at peace with the decision I made. It’s a decision that I made to preserve my health. It’s what the doctors said to me, that it would be better to stop playing. I made the decision around 10 days ago. I’m very proud of my career, it was a dream come true. I just wanted to be a professional player and never thought that I would play in Europe.”
Aguero said about his health condition: “The first weeks (after the diagnosis) were really hard. When I took the first physical tests after the incident… the doctors told me that there was a big possibility I could not play again. So I started to process it, that I could never play professional football again. When they gave me the definite diagnosis, I was prepared. It hurts, of course, it was a really difficult process to go through, but I’m good now.”
He added. “I’m positive about it… That I can live my life happy after professional football, that nothing more serious happened. Now I can live a normal life and do other things with my family as a regular guy.”
