Sergio Aguero, from the sprawling suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, grew up in poverty.
Indeed, the most remarkable thing about his journey is that he was even born in the first place.
Aguero’s father, Leonel Del Castillo, and his mother, Adriana Aguero, were 17 and 19 respectively and had already had their first child, Jessica
When they moved to the Argentine capital, they went here and there in search of a new life and new opportunities.
Leonel, a talented footballer himself, used what little materials he could get his hands on to build the family home.
The toilet was a partially covered hole in the ground outside and there was no running water, meaning Adriana, accompanied by Jessica, would have to walk 100 metres to fill up two 20-litre containers.
His mother had to travel for miles to reach the hospital to give birth to Sergio
Adriana spent two months in the hospital before he was born and most of those two months crying and alone.
Almost as soon as she was given a bed, a doctor informed her that the baby was stuck and she would be unable to give birth unless action was taken.
She was informed the only alternative was to perform an episiotomy on her and to fracture her child’s collarbone.
