How Lamine Yamal revived Sergio Aguero’s love for football after early retirement
Sergio Aguero has admitted that it took the rise of Lamine Yamal to bring him back to the sport he once dominated.
After being forced into early retirement due to a heart condition, the former Manchester City striker revealed he had drifted away from regularly watching football.
Lamine Yamal reignites Sergio Aguero’s passion
In comments shared via X , Aguero opened up about how Barcelona ’s teenage star changed that.
“To be honest, since my heart problem, I haven’t been watching much football. But when Lamine Yamal started doing well at Barca , I felt like watching games again,” Aguero said.
The admission highlights the emotional toll of his abrupt retirement in 2021. For a player who lived and breathed competition, stepping away from the pitch also meant stepping away from the weekly rhythm of the game.
Yamal’s emergence at Barcelona appears to have cut through that distance. Still only in his teens, the winger has become one of the most talked-about talents in European football, combining confidence with technical maturity rarely seen at his age.
Sergio Aguero sees something different in Lamine Yamal
Aguero went further in explaining what makes Yamal compelling to watch.
“I really like Lamine, and because of him, I started watching football again… He does things that I didn’t do when I was young, for example,” Aguero stated.
The comparison is striking considering Aguero’s own prodigious rise in Argentina and later the Premier League.
For a striker who scored one of the most iconic goals in English football history, acknowledging that a teenager is attempting moves he never tried underscores Yamal’s creativity. Aguero’s words suggest admiration rather than nostalgia.
Rather than measuring Yamal against his own career, he appears energized by the new generation’s freedom and flair.
Football often evolves through moments like this, when former stars rediscover joy through emerging ones. For Aguero, Yamal has become more than a promising prospect. He is the reason the television is back on.
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