Sergio Aguero looked emotional after a doctor informed him on a live stream he was able to return to professional football.
Manchester City’s record scorer was forced into an early retirement in December 2021 after he suffered a cardiac arrhythmia just months into his spell at Barcelona.
Since then, Aguero has forged a media career via Twitch and played football casually as part of Gerard Pique’s seven-a-side Kings League.
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However, at the start of a recent stream, Aguero admitted he is training for a return to professional football, and went on to call his cardiologist live.
"People are asking me and well, I don't know... What do you think?” Aguero asked. “How am I doing for 20 minutes of action? I don't know if it's 20, but ten?”
The cardiologist replied: “You won't have any problems playing for that long.
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"Logically, we have to do the studies, which already correspond, and make you run as if it were a game... When you approach the two centre-backs, if you have to do a trick, something like that, you have to be well prepared.
"So I would tell you to, 'get ready, there is hope' you could say. You have to get well, in a physical state for a few minutes [of action]. In short, it is possible."
A beaming Aguero rubbed his hands together in glee at the prospect of a football return.
Soon, viewers began asking the Argentinian whether he would return to Independiente, where he started his career before a 2006 move to Atletico Madrid.
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Aguero said: "If Carlitos [Tevez, Independiente manager] calls me, what do you expect me to do?”
Aguero added that his plan before retirement was a move from Barca back to Independiente.
"Yes, the idea was to be able to come for six months or a year,” he said. “The idea was to play here and then hang up my boots, but that didn't happen.”
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