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Sergio Aguero: Call me Che Guevara



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Posted Thursday, July 28, 2011 by The Sun

Sergio Aguero: Call me Che Guevara

SERGIO AGUERO has vowed to revolutionise Manchester City, calling himself the Che Guevara of football.

City's record signing would rather be compared to the famous Argentinian revolutionary leader than his country's greatest-ever footballer, Diego Maradona.

And that is despite the fact Maradona is his father-in-law and grandad to Aguero's two-year-old son Benjamin!

Aguero, a £40million capture from Atletico Madrid, explained: "No one will ever be exactly like Maradona again but I really think that every so often there is a total revolution in football and someone needs to be the revolutionary who starts things off. That´s me.

"Maradona made some 'noise' in his day and I want to roar a bit in my day - now!

"I like tricks, I like to dazzle, I like to be able to score a goal with one leg bent round the other so that you smack the ball into the net with your wrong foot.

"Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for."

"If I achieve what I want to then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer."

It is quite a boast, even for a player whose skill has been compared to that of the player he used to room with for the Argentina Under-20 team, Lionel Messi.

But Aguero has never been afraid to bang his own drum.

That is also why he bristles at comparisons with Maradona, and has made sure everyone knows he is not in awe of the Hand of God.

He said: "I've had Diego as my coach with Argentina and we coped with that - then he wasn't my father-in-law, he was just the boss.

"Around the family I'll usually call him Diego, or sometimes Suegro - father-in-law - but we get along fine.

"However, when he offers his opinion about what I should do or where I should play my football I leave him in no doubt.
"I decide things like that, not him."

Aguero, 23, backed up his words by telling Maradona to mind his own business when his famous relative said he should join Inter Milan.

But the comparisons between the pair were impossible to escape when Aguero was caught up in a near-identical controversy to the one that engulfed Maradona after his infamous goal against England in the 1986 World Cup.

Shortly after his near-£20m move from Independiente to Atletico five years ago, Aguero netted in similar fashion against Recreativo.

The game was balanced at 1-1 when he deliberately stuck out a blue-gloved fist to punch the ball home for the winning goal.

But Aguero mounted an angry defence, saying strikers have to contend with dirty tricks every day.

He stormed: "The trouble with all this is that there are defenders who thought they could kick the hell out of you and get away with it by calling you a diver or a cheat because of what I did that day.

"Obviously it's against the spirit of the game to score with your hand - but that goal was the product of strange circumstances rather than an outright intent to cheat.

"I was arriving just too late, the chance was close to a post, and if I'd dived in I'd have smashed my head off the woodwork.

"The instinctive reflex was to stick out a hand, but I was always thinking that the ref would spot it and disallow the goal.

"I turned round when I was getting up off the ground to see that the ref's given it and he's running back off to the centre circle for kick-off!

"So what should I have done? I had to celebrate as if it were a genuine goal rather than chase after him to beg him to disallow it - and that's honestly all that happened."

Further controversy erupted when he was sent off for spitting at a Bolton player in a Europa League match, making you wonder whether City are getting another Mario Balotelli-type powderkeg.

But there have also been plenty of dazzling moments, like setting up famous victories over Barcelona and scoring the two goals that earned Atletico their Europa League final victory against Fulham - and the clincher in a 2-0 Super Cup win over Inter.

He can also look back on two Under-20 World Cup triumphs - the first of them alongside Messi and Javier Mascherano - and a 2008 Olympic Games gold after his two goals helped Argentina KO Brazil in the semi-finals.

Aguero's nickname is Kun, bestowed on him because his former school chums reckoned he looked like a character in a Japanese animation series, Kum Kum.

City will hope their wannabe revolutionary makes sure any Kun-fu fighting is strictly within the spirit of the game when he bids to justify his massive price tag.



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