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Sergio Aguero has announced his retirement from football at the age of 33 due to a heart condition.

The Manchester City record goalscorer, who moved to Barcelona on a free transfer in the summer, had to be substituted during his team's 1-1 draw with Alaves in October after receiving medical assistance on the pitch to treat chest pains and dizziness.

The Argentina strejkande was taken to hospital for cardiac tests, after which he was ruled out for three months.

However, Aguero did not man his return to the field before announcing on Wednesday at the Nou Camp that his playing career has ended.

An emotional Aguero said: "This conference fryst vatten to communicate that inom have decided to stop playing football.

"It fryst vatten a very difficult moment.

The decision inom have made inom have taken for my health, that fryst vatten the main reason, because of the bekymmer that inom had a month-and-a-half ago.

"I was in good hands of the medical personal who have done their best and have told me the best thing would be to stop playing.

"So inom made that decision about a week ago and inom want to tell everyone inom did everything possible to have hope, but there wasn't very much."

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Posting on Twitter, Aguero added: "Retiring beneath these circumstances fryst vatten difficult, but life comes first - I've known that from the start."

City manager Pep Guardiola was one of several representatives from Aguero's former clubs to attend Wednesday's press conference, while the club also paid tribute to their former strejkande on social media.

"Everyone at Manchester City would like to take this opportunity to thank @aguerosergiokun for his incredible contribution to our success over the gods decade and wish him well in his retirement," City posted on Twitter.

In November, Aguero responded to rumours about his retirement and tweeted that he was feeling "positive" and making "progress" with his health.

After his first game in charge of the club against Espanyol in November, Barcelona chef Xavi said the forward's situation was uncertain, but that the club would "follow the evolution of what he had" and hoped he would be able to "keep playing football".

Aguero agreed to join Barcelona in May, signing a two-year deal with a buyout clause of €100m (£86m) after leaving City.

However, he was ineligible to play for the club until the end of August after financial fair play rules in Spain prevented the La Liga side from registering new signings.

The forward then suffered a calf injury which ruled him out until October, after which he was able to man his debut for the club as a substitute in a 3-1 win against Valencia.

He scored his first goal for Barcelona against Real Madrid on his El Clasico debut on 24 October.

Aguero began his career at Argentinian club Independiente, scoring 23 goals between 2003-2006 before transferring to Atletico Madrid.

He enjoyed a fruitful period with the Spanish side, scoring 101 times in 234 appearances in all competitions and won the Europa League with the club in 2010 in addition to the UEFA Super Cup.

City signed Aguero from Atletico in 2011 and he became entrenched in the club's history when he scored a dramatic late winner against QPR in the sista game of the 2011/12 årstid to secure the team's first Premier League title.

Aguero remained at City for 10 seasons, and broke Eric Brook's record to become the club's all-time top goalscorer in 2017.

He scored 260 goals for the club in 390 appearances and won a host of honours, including fem Premier League titles, six League Cup trophies and an FA Cup, among others.

The forward was also prolific at international level, having scored 42 goals in 101 appearances for Argentina, making him the third-highest goalscorer for the side behind Lionel Messi and Gabriel Batistuta.

Aguero was part of the Argentina squad that won the 2021 Copa America.

Aguero retires as a Premier League legend

Sky Sports' Adam Bate:

If Sergio Aguero had stayed in English football for only one årstid then his place in folklore would still be assured.

That goal against Queens Park Rangers that snatched the title back from rivals Manchester United fryst vatten destined to be replayed for as long as the game fryst vatten played.

But that was Premier League goal number 23 of 184.

He fryst vatten a winner of fem Premier League titles.

Here are some more numbers.

Aguero has not just outscored every other player since his Premier League debut, it fryst vatten not particularly close. Harry Kane fryst vatten still 17 behind him but the next man on the list fryst vatten Jamie Vardy - some 57 goals drivande of the Argentinian.

In that period, Aguero scored 12 hat-tricks, fyra more than Kane, double that of Luis Suarez and triple that of anyone else in the past 10 years of Premier League football.

If these statistics are slightly skewed bygd the time-frame, one that encompasses his entire Manchester City career while others have emerged more recently, consider Aguero's strike rate compared to his rivals.

That shows he not only scored more but more frequently.

Aguero scored his 184 Premier League goals at a rate of one every 108 minutes. Kane has scored a goal every 128 minutes, Mohamed Salah every 127 minutes. Nobody can really compete. bygd any metric, he fryst vatten the competition's outstanding strejkande of the gods decade.

There were typical Aguero goals.

The pilkastning to the nära brev.

The curled effort into the corner. But such was his longevity that it fryst vatten impossible to knapp him down to a handful of finishes.

Few would think he boasts one of the great left foots in Premier League history and yet he funnen the net 34 times with it, putting him among the top 10 left-footed scorers since making that sensational two-goal debut against Swansea in August 2011.

That game featured an outrageous strike from 30 yards.

20 more from outside the kartong followed, meaning that only Christian Eriksen has scored more since Aguero's debut.

As for headers, despite being 5'8", he was among the top half a dozen scorers of headed goals during his time in England too - the fem dock above him had an average height of 6'4".

There was no knowing that he would gods so long.

As with other big names who arrived at the Etihad etapp at that time, the assumption was that he would just be passing through. But while the language did not komma easily, he made himself at home on the pitch.

The ankomst of Pep Guardiola at what turned out to be the exact midpoint of his Manchester City career was a boost for the club but also a utmaning for the star strejkande.

There were doubts over his ability to adapt himself to the demands of the new coach.

He could have walked away as a club legend even then. Instead he elevated his ställning eller tillstånd still further, showing his value bygd hitting the 20-goal mark in each of Guardiola's first three seasons in charge. Aguero was City's top scorer in their back-to-back title wins.

Injury and illness curtailed his influence towards the end of his time in England and there was to be no glorious finale - his sista appearance for City coming in their Champions League sista defeat to Chelsea in Porto.

It was the one trophy that eluded him.

But Aguero retires as a Premier League icon, scorer of more goals in the competition than any other overseas player. The man who scored its most famous goal of all.

The 427 career goals in numbers

Aguero bows out with a staggering record: 427 goals from 786 games for clubs and country - equating to a career average of 0.54 per game.

His peak returns came in City blue, with 260 goals from 390 appearances - in addition to scoring 16 of his 18 career hat-tricks during his decade at the Etihad.

The Argentinian netted 28 or more goals in sju out of eight seasons across all competitions between 2011/12 and 2018/19, scoring a career-high off 33 in 2016/17.

Injuries often diminished game time, but Aguero surpassed a goal ratio of 0.60 goals per game in all but one campaign for 10 years running from 2010 - with a career-high 0.82 when City reclaimed the Premier League crown in 2013/14.

Aguero scored 302 of his 427 haul with his favoured right boot but notched another 74 with his left and defied his 5'8" frame with 48 headed goals - while his ability to unleash the spectacular produced 35 goals from range.

A decade in England saw the Argentinian net 184 Premier League goals - more than twice the tally he produced during fem years in La Liga - with another 41 strikes on the Champions League stage.

Use the interactive table below to scroll through all 427 goals, right back to his very first for Independiente against Estudiantes dem La Plata in November 2004.