Aguero had just turned 17 years old. He grew up in a slum on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. It was known as the Capital of Cocaine.
Like Tevez, Aguero was introduced to football on a dilapidated field surrounded by drugs and violence. Almost as soon as he learned how to run, he knew that football might be his only chance to get out of this "goddamned" slum.
Eduardo? González was Aguero's talent scout. He was also Aguero's father, Lionel Castillo. Castillo's childhood coach, a 70-year-old man, recalled the first time he met Aguero. "He was eight years old, and he was already very special. He could easily dribble the ball away from the older kids." It was under González's guidance that Aguero began to explore the football skills that could "one-shot" everyone.
Speaking of which, it was necessary to take a look at the environment where Aguero grew up. Aguero lived with his parents, five brothers, and two cousins in the notorious Eucalyptus Town. Aguero's family was poor. The whole family squeezed into a dilapidated wooden house. There was not even a bathroom in the house!
This place where drug addicts and thieves gathered was so dangerous that when Aguero's other childhood coach, Balpina, brought a reporter to visit, he kept saying nervously, "We have to go and come back quickly, go and come back quickly!"
Aguero's first opportunity to "escape the slums" was when he was nine years old. That year, González brought him to the Independiente team and introduced him to his friend Lambert, the coach of the Argentinian Independiente under-13 team. Lambert thought that Aguero was too young, so he sent him to the under-11 team.
In just a few years, Aguero magically rose from the eighth tier of the club to the first team. He was 15 years old and 35 days old when he was promoted to the first team, breaking the record of his father-in-law, Maradona, as the youngest player to be promoted to the first team in the Argentine league.
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But Aguero's promotion from the youth team to the first team was not smooth sailing. He encountered a lot of trouble during the process, and the biggest obstacle came from his family. Aguero's poor parents often let Aguero play wild football, the kind of games where you pay after playing. Aguero could earn 30 pounds a game.
So why were Aquilo's parents so short-sighted? This was because Aquilo's father had picked up a lot of bad habits in the slums and was addicted to drugs. He was capable of doing anything.
The news of Aguero's "wild football" eventually reached the ears of his coaches. At that time, his first coach, González, and the youth team coach, Lambert, had already purchased Aguero's "ownership" (that is, they had the "right to buy and sell" Aguero as a player). Therefore, they provided Aguero's family with food, medical care, and even Aguero's textbooks and bus tickets, hoping that this would allow the young Aguero to train and play football without being "tormented" by his father.
However, his father still asked Aguero to play wild football to earn money. In the end, Lambert finally "couldn't take it anymore." He helped Aguero's family buy a house in Quilmes and bought a car for his father to drive a taxi for a living.
At that point, the young Aguero finally ended his life in the slums and began his magnificent football career. When he was 13 years old, he had already stunned the Argentine youth competition. The famous Boca Juniors club was very interested in him and wanted to buy him for 320,000 pounds, but they were rejected by González and Lambert. When he was 15 years old, Aguero successfully promoted to the first team of the Independiente team. Now, at the age of 17, Aguero was already the star player of the Independiente team. According to the original track of history, Aguero, who was not yet 18 years old, would be transferred to Atlético Madrid in a year's time. The transfer price was as high as 23 million euros.
Therefore, although Aguero was only 17 years old and had not yet played in the European league, this young player was not easy to recruit.
That was because the Independiente team regarded Aguero as the team's greatest treasure.
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In fact, Li Ang could have other choices. After all, it was a bit extravagant to spend a large transfer fee to bring in a substitute player.
However, Li Ang thought more long-term. Inter Milan now had two main players in Adriano and Ronaldo. Ronaldo looked fine at the moment and had a good attitude. If Li Ang could "cure" Ronaldo's illness, a healthy Ronaldo would be terrifying.
The problem was Adriano. He was an absolute genius striker with a strong body, excellent skills, powerful impact, and a golden left foot. Such a player, if only in terms of talent and physical quality, was absolutely the number one player in today's football.
However, Li Ang was familiar with the history of Adriano's fall. Even Li Ang did not dare to guarantee that he could "save" Adriano and prevent the Brazilian star player from self-destruction according to the original history.
Therefore, Li Ang needed to plan ahead. Aguero was the replacement he found for Adriano.
Of course, Li Ang would try his best to prevent Adriano from self-destruction. If Adriano really performed well under Li Ang's management, Li Ang was not worried that Aguero would fall into his hands. He did not think it was a bad deal.
With Aguero's talent and Li Ang's "Young Eagle Spreads Its Wings" training skills, Li Ang firmly believed that Aguero would mature faster and perform better than in his original time and space.
Not to mention that Aguero's value would only continue to skyrocket in the future, there was no need to worry about a lack of buyers in the transfer market. Even if Aguero stayed in Inter Milan, the trident of Aguero, Adriano, and Ronaldo was simply picturesque.
Moreover, Li Ang had communicated with Inter Milan's top management. Inter Milan's scouts had also been paying attention to Aguero for some time. However, Inter Milan had not made up their minds to make a move because Aguero's value would not be low.
However, Li Ang expressed his appreciation and optimism for Aguero. Li Ang's vision was also famous for being accurate. This strengthened Inter Milan's confidence in Aguero.
Moreover, Aguero would be transferred to Atlético Madrid for 23 million euros a year later. Therefore, for Li Ang, if he wanted to get Aguero, then this summer's transfer market would be his last chance. Otherwise, if he waited until next summer to bid with Atlético Madrid, it would only push up Aguero's value.
One year later, Agüero's transfer value would be 23 million Euros. This was due to Agüero's increasingly outstanding performance in the following season. Now, Agüero had one less season of experience, so his current value was not that high.
However, 15 million euros was still needed!
Therefore, Li Ang was prepared to use a transfer fee of around 15 million euros to snatch Aguero from the hands of the Argentinian independent club, who had long planned to make a profit from Aguero.
PS: Second update, thanks to Tang Da Chui Chui for the huge 30,000 reward 1.
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