{"id":416494,"date":"2021-11-20T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=416494"},"modified":"2021-11-20T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T20:21:08","slug":"laliga-barcelona-striker-aguero-finally-decides-to-retire-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=416494","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Barcelona striker, Aguero finally decides to retire from football"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona striker, Sergio Aguero, has finally decided to retire from playing football.<\/p>\n<p>This claim was made by respected and reliable sports journalist, Gerard Romero.<\/p>\n<p>Romero disclosed this in a post via his Twitter handle, @gerardromero, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the former Manchester City star Aguero will make the announcement of his retirement at a press conference next week.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted, \u201cKun Ag\u00fcero retires. Heart problems force him to leave football active. A press conference is scheduled for next week to announce his withdrawal. We are counting it in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the decision comes more than a fortnight after the news first broke through that Aguero could retire from playing football after he suffered a heart arrhythmia during Barcelona\u2019s 1-1 draw against Alaves on October 30.<\/p>\n<p>Aguero was making just his sixth appearance for the Blaugrana when he began experiencing chest pains during Barcelona\u2019s LaLiga clash against Alaves.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward was taken to hospital, where he underwent a series of cardiological tests to determine the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona then confirmed in an official statement that Aguero would be unavailable for at least three months while the attacker received further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Aguero eventually confirmed on his Twitch stream that he had not taken a decision yet, and was waiting for a medical confirmation about the same.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Romero reports that the decision has been taken, and the announcement could come next week through a press conference.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona striker, Sergio Aguero, has finally decided to retire from playing football. This claim was made by respected and reliable sports journalist, Gerard Romero. Romero disclosed this in a post via his Twitter handle, @gerardromero, on Saturday. According to him, the former Manchester City star Aguero will make the announcement of his retirement at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13665,3],"tags":[2658,7706,34],"class_list":["post-416494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-a","tag-aguero","tag-barcelona"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/414595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}