Sergio Aguero's role in the upcoming Qatar 2022 World Cup is still unknown, beyond the fact that he was invited by the Argentine team. Meanwhile, Kun is enjoying his life and this time he had to travel from Miami to Doha to be present this Friday in the group stage draw. Two days before the event, the former scorer stood in front of the TyC Sports microphones, told details of his current affairs and health, and offered revelations about the breakdown of his relationship with Sampaoli at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Within the schedule to be held in Qatar there is an all-star match to which Aguero was invited. “There was a little game tomorrow and I told them that if I do a sprint I get an attack. Maybe I don't know for now, because I feel pretty good in my heart. Yesterday a little bit crossed my mind to say about doing some sprints to try. I'm not telling you to go back, to try. So I can play with my friends. First they told me six months without effort, because they played a lot, two and a half hours were there. He told me not to do forty minutes running crazy,” he revealed.
He added about the outlook, looking ahead: “I now want to do things to try. The other day I was in Miami and they invited me to play ball. I didn't go. But I have that doubt whether I try or not test. But not to play again, to do things again. You never know. Maybe in two years I get caught up with the madness of playing again, but I don't think that's the case.”
Agüero revealed that he will not be part of the ceremony when it comes to getting the balls out of the bass drums, but he did an analysis of what can happen to Albiceleste. “You have to watch the matches and crosses, which are fundamental, but Argentina is always a candidate to fight the World Cup. Starting from quarters or semis, you have to meet the biggest ones. But it is clearly not the same to face countries that are not so complicated because those matches can give the team confidence and, if you move forward, you arrive with terrible confidence. If Germany is not there, all the better. But if it is, nothing happens because you know that you have to qualify and, to come out first or second, it gives you the same. After that, you will meet them again in the final,” said the former Manchester City and Barcelona striker from Qatar.
In addition, he commented on some opponents: “Nigeria is not there. That's what I read on Twitter at least. But it's always up to us, enough. Senegal, who was champion now. And stop, Koreans are complicated. Ghana, too. The first game is the worst. You arrive that you have a month that there is no football. It's really screwed up the first one.”
On the other hand, he recalled his preparation prior to the 2018 World Cup and recounted several of the problems that squad had, with Sampaoli in the target. “Russia's first match was one of my best with the Argentine National Team. I had surgery before, I did everything to get perfect, I scored the goal in that match and ended up not playing. It was very good and it is reality, in full condition. I think it was one of the years that I prepared best, and when I didn't play for the second match, everything fell apart, because the coach told you one thing before, and in the World Cup he ended up doing other things”, he said in reference to the match with Iceland, that Albiceleste tied 1-1
“For a player like me, who has been in the national team for several years, I thought his handling was very strange, mainly because of what the previous one was like,” he continued to detail about the relationship with the former coach of the national team. “We had to show up on May 22 and I went on the 8th because he called me and said 'Come, you have to be the best 9 in the World Cup, come here. ' I told him to give me some time to talk to my doctor, because since we were going to Barcelona and I was there rehabilitating, I thought about staying. I ended up going, I was one of the first and I trained like crazy, but after that there was something I didn't like and this time I'm going to say it on the air.”
The Kun, outraged by the memory, closed the topic about the threat he received. “I'm not going to say the name of who told me, but they told me that if I didn't train alongside the group, which was already complete, I wouldn't go to the World Cup. From there everything seemed very strange to me, and we started badly. It wasn't even the coach who told me, it was someone else. Luckily nothing happened, but I started training at par a week ahead of schedule. At one point I said 'This madman is going to leave me out of the World Cup'”, he concluded.
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