Sergio Agüero

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Agüero and the second or maternal family name is del Castillo.

Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo (born 2 June 1988), also known as Kun Agüero, is an Argentine retired football player. He played as a former striker for the Argentina national team. Agüero joined La Liga club Barcelona starting 1 July 2021 until November 2021. He had no choice but to retire due to heart problems.

Sergio Agüero

Personal information
Full name	Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo[1]
Date of birth	(1988-06-02) 2 June 1988 (age 37)[2]
Place of birth	Buenos Aires,[3] Argentina
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[4]
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1997–2003	Independiente
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003–2006	Independiente	54	(23)
2006–2011	Atlético Madrid	175	(74)
2011–2021	Manchester City	264	(180)
2021	Barcelona	4	(1)
International career‡
2004	Argentina U17	5	(3)
2005–2007	Argentina U20	11	(6)
2008	Argentina U23	5	(2)
2006–2021	Argentina	101	(41)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:08, 17 October 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 November 2019

Club career

Independiente

Aguero joined C.A. Independiente's youth system at age nine, and became the youngest player to make the first-team debut at age 15 on 5 July 2003.

Atletico Madrid

Aguero joined Spanish club Atlético Madrid in May 2006, for a fee of around €20 million.^[5]

Manchester City

On 28 July 2011, Aguero signed a five-year contract with Manchester City for a reported fee of £38 million.^[6] At the time, he became the most expensive signing in City's history. The previous record was for Robinho's transfer fee of £32.5 million in 2008.^[7] He was given the number 16 shirt, and wears Kun Aguero on his back.

He made his debut for the team on 15 August 2011, scoring the last goal in a 4-0 victory against Swansea City A.F.C. He scored his first Premier League hat-trick on 10 September 2011 against Wigan Athletic F.C. In the final game of the season against Queens Park Rangers, Aguero scored a goal in the 20th second of the 93 minute. He scored City's third goal in a 3-2 victory, helping the team win their first Premier League title since 1968.^[8]

International career

Aguero has played for Argentina's U17 team, U-20 team, Olympic team, and Senior team.

Aguero made his debut for the Senior team on 3 September 2006 at age 18.^[9]

He scored his first international hat trick on 7 June 2015 in a 2015 Copa América warm-up game against Bolivia. Argentina won 5-0.^[10]

On 16 June 2018, at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Aguero scored his first ever World Cup goal against Iceland in a 1-1 draw.^[11]

Personal life

Aguero was married to Diego Maradona's daughter, Giannina Maradona. They married in 2008, and had one son named Benjamin that was born in Madrid, Spain in February 2009.^[12] Aguero and Giannina separated in 2012.^[13] Diego Maradona later called Aguero a "wimp" on an Argentine radio station after their separation.^[14]

Aguero has two half-brothers that are also footballers, Gaston del Castillo and Mauricio del Castillo.

Agüero welcomed his second child, a daughter named Olivia, with actress Sofía Calzetti in 2024.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[15][16]

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Independiente	2002–03[17]	Argentine Primera División	1	0	—		—		—		—		1	0
	2003–04[18]	Argentine Primera División	5	0	—		—		2[a]	0	—		7	0
	2004–05[19]	Argentine Primera División	12	5	—		—		—		—		12	5
	2005–06[20]	Argentine Primera División	36	18	—		—		—		—		36	18
	Total		54	23	—		—		2	0	—		56	23
Atlético Madrid	2006–07[21]	La Liga	38	6	4	1	—		—		—		42	7
	2007–08[22]	La Liga	37	19	4	2	—		9[b]	6	—		50	27
	2008–09[23]	La Liga	37	17	1	0	—		9[c]	4	—		47	21
	2009–10[24]	La Liga	31	12	7	1[d]	—		16[e]	6	—		54	19
	2010–11[25]	La Liga	32	20	4	3	—		4[f]	3	1[g]	1	41	27
	Total		175	74	20	7	—		38	19	1	1	234	101
Manchester City	2011–12[26]	Premier League	34	24	1	1	3	1	10[h]	5	0	0	48	31
	2012–13[27]	Premier League	30	12	4	3	0	0	5[c]	2	1[i]	0	40	17
	2013–14[28]	Premier League	23	17	3	4	2	1	6[c]	6	—		34	28
	2014–15[29]	Premier League	33	26	1	0	1	0	7[c]	6	0	0	42	32
	2015–16[30]	Premier League	30	24	1	1	4	2	9[c]	2	—		44	29
	2016–17[31]	Premier League	31	20	5	5	1	0	8[c]	8	—		45	33
	2017–18[32]	Premier League	25	21	3	2	4	3	7[c]	4	—		39	30
	2018–19[33]	Premier League	33	21	2	2	3	1	7[c]	6	1[i]	2	46	32
	2019–20[34]	Premier League	24	16	2	2	3	3	3[c]	2	0	0	32	23
	2020–21[35]	Premier League	12	4	0	0	1	0	7[c]	2	—		20	6
	Total		275	184	22	20	22	11	69	43	2	2	390	260
Barcelona	2021–22[36]	La Liga	4	1	0	0	—		1[c]	0	0	0	5	1
Career total			508	282	42	27	22	11	110	62	3	3	685	385

1. Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores
2. Eight appearances and six goals in UEFA Cup, one appearance in UEFA Intertoto Cup
3. Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
4. The second goal against Huelva is considered as an own goal by Magnus Troest.
5. Eight appearances and four goals in UEFA Champions League, eight appearances and two goals in UEFA Europa League
6. Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
7. Appearance in UEFA Super Cup
8. Six appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, four appearances and four goals in UEFA Europa League
9. Appearance in FA Community Shield

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[37]

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

Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Agüero goal.^[37]

List of international goals scored by Sergio Agüero

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	17 November 2007	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Bolivia	1–0	3–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2	26 March 2008	Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt	Egypt	1–0	2–0	Friendly
3	4 June 2008	Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, United States	Mexico	4–1	4–1	Friendly
4	6 September 2008	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Paraguay	1–1	1–1	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
5	11 October 2008	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Uruguay	2–0	2–1	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
6	28 March 2009	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Venezuela	4–0	4–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
7	12 August 2009	Lokomotiv Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Russia	1–1	3–2	Friendly
8	24 May 2010	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Canada	5–0	5–0	Friendly
9	7 September 2010	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Spain	4–1	4–1	Friendly
10	20 June 2011	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Albania	3–0	3–0	Friendly
11	1 July 2011	Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina	Bolivia	1–1	1–1	2011 Copa América
12	11 July 2011	Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, Córdoba, Argentina	Costa Rica	1–0	3–0	2011 Copa América
13				2–0
14	15 November 2011	Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, Barranquilla, Colombia	Colombia	2–1	2–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
15	2 June 2012	Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Ecuador	1–0	4–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
16	12 October 2012	Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina	Uruguay	2–0	2–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
17	6 February 2013	Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden	Sweden	2–1	3–2	Friendly
18	11 June 2013	Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito, Ecuador	Ecuador	1–0	1–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
19	10 September 2013	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción, Paraguay	Paraguay	2–1	5–2	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
20	18 November 2013	Busch Stadium, St. Louis, United States	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	2–0	Friendly
21				2–0
22	3 September 2014	Esprit Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany	Germany	1–0	4–2	Friendly
23	31 March 2015	MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, United States	Ecuador	1–0	2–1	Friendly
24	6 June 2015	Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan, Argentina	Bolivia	2–0	5–0	Friendly
25				3–0
26				4–0
27	13 June 2015	Estadio La Portada, La Serena, Chile	Paraguay	1–0	2–2	2015 Copa América
28	16 June 2015	Estadio La Portada, La Serena, Chile	Uruguay	1–0	1–0	2015 Copa América
29	30 June 2015	Estadio Municipal de Concepción, Concepción, Chile	Paraguay	5–1	6–1	2015 Copa América
30	4 September 2015	BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, United States	Bolivia	2–0	7–0	Friendly
31				4–0
32	9 September 2015	AT&T Stadium, United States	Mexico	1–2	2–2	Friendly
33	10 June 2016	Soldier Field, Chicago, United States	Panama	5–0	5–0	Copa América Centenario
34	11 November 2017	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia	Russia	1–0	1–0	Friendly
35	14 November 2017	Krasnodar Stadium, Krasnodar, Russia	Nigeria	2–0	2–4	Friendly
36	29 May 2018	La Bombonera, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Haiti	4–0	4–0	Friendly
37	16 June 2018	Otkritie Arena, Moscow, Russia	Iceland	1–0	1–1	2018 FIFA World Cup
38	30 June 2018	Kazan Arena, Kazan, Russia	France	3–4	3–4	2018 FIFA World Cup
39	23 June 2019	Arena do Grêmio, Porto Alegre, Brazil	Qatar	2–0	2–0	2019 Copa América
40	6 July 2019	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil	Chile	1–0	2–1	2019 Copa América
41	18 November 2019	Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv, Israel	Uruguay	1–1	2–2	Friendly

Honours

Atlético Madrid

• UEFA Europa League: 2009–10^[38]
• UEFA Super Cup: 2010^[39]
• Copa del Rey runner-up: 2009–10^[40]

Manchester City

• Premier League: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21^[41]
• FA Cup: 2018–19;^[42] runner-up: 2012–13^[43]
• Football League/EFL Cup: 2013–14,^[44] 2015–16,^[45] 2017–18,^[46] 2018–19,^[47] 2019–20,^[48] 2020–21^[49]
• FA Community Shield: 2012,^[50] 2018,^[51] 2019^[52]
• UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2020–21^[53]

Argentina U20

• FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2005, 2007^[16]

Argentina U23

• Olympic Gold Medal: 2008^[16]

Argentina

• Copa América: 2021^[54]
• FIFA World Cup runner-up: 2014^[55]

Individual

• FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Ball: 2007^[56]
• FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Shoe: 2007^[56]
• Golden Boy: 2007^[57][58]
• World Soccer Young Player of the Year: 2009^[59]
• Premier League Golden Boot: 2014–15^[41]
• La Liga Ibero-American Player of the Year: 2007–08
• Don Balón Award: 2007–08
• FSF Player of the Year: 2014^[60]
• Manchester City Player of the Year: 2011–12, 2014–15^[61]
• Manchester City Goal of the Season: 2011–12^[source?]
• Premier League Hall of Fame: 2022^[62]
• Premier League Player of the Month: October 2013, November 2014, January 2016, April 2016, January 2018, February 2019, January 2020^[41]
• PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 Premier League,^[63] 2018–19 Premier League^[64]
• South American Team of the Year: 2005^[65]
• Premier League Player of the Year by Northwest Football Awards: 2015^[66]
• IFFHS CONMEBOL team of the decade 2011–2020^[67]