“It’s my third World Cup. I feel happiness and a lot of anxiety, I want the time to come. I'll try to take all the experience of the past two World Cups and dump it in Russia. I want to do well for my team,” says the Argentine striker Sergio Aguero.
The world of football has its fairytale, of the underdog overachieving, and breaking the barrier of poverty and social injustice. To many in strifetorn Latin America and Africa, the game provides an avenue for a better life, to haul families away from a daily struggle with drugs, crime, famine or poverty.
Sergio ‘Kun’ Aguero has a similar story, growing up in the impoverished neighbourhood of Los Eucaliptos in Buenos Aires, where his parents Leonel Del Castillo and Adriana Aguero moved from their family homes in Tucuman when they were just 17 and 19.
A young Aguero had his battles — dinner most days was herbal tea and stale bread. However, his ball playing skills, encouraged by Leonel, took him to Independiente, for whom he made his professional debut in 2003, when he was just 15.
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