{"id":1931,"date":"2022-03-25T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/sergio-aguero-offered-role-on-argentina-staff-at-world-cup-the-indian-express\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T19:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:26:04","slug":"sergio-aguero-offered-role-on-argentina-staff-at-world-cup-the-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/sergio-aguero-offered-role-on-argentina-staff-at-world-cup-the-indian-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Aguero offered role on Argentina staff at World Cup &#8211; The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former striker Sergio Aguero has been offered a role on Argentina&#8217;s staff at the World Cup in Qatar to serve as a link between the players and the coaches.<br \/>Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni confirmed Thursday he wants the former Manchester City star to be a middleman in Qatar.<br \/>&#8220;I would like him to be close to his teammates, that he brings us any problem or anything that could happen during a World Cup,&#8221; Scaloni said. &#8220;In our coaching staff we have people that are close to the players, but sometimes a person of that magnitude can avoid some situations.&#8221;<br \/>Aguero, who played in three World Cups, was forced to retire last year due to cardiac problems that were detected shortly after he made his debut for Barcelona.<br \/>Argentina has already secured a spot at this year&#8217;s tournament in Qatar ahead of its game against Venezuela on Friday in the penultimate round of South American World Cup qualifiers.<br \/><strong> \ud83d\uddde <em>Subscribe Now:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/subscribe\/?startDate=20-10-2021&#038;productName=2021_001_digital&#038;groupName=subscriptionPremium&#038;utm_source=story&#038;utm_medium=popup&#038;utm_campaign=aarontest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Express Premium to access our in-depth reporting, explainers and opinions<\/a> \ud83d\uddde\ufe0f <\/strong><br \/>For all the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/section\/sports\/\">Sports News<\/a>, download <a class=\"click-event\" id=\"IE_app_download\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.page.link\/aeiu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Express App.<\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/meta-stories-of-strength-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"padding: 0 0 15px 5px\" src=\"\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2021\/08\/300_100.gif\" width=\"295\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/events\/migration-in-india\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"padding: 0 0 15px 5px\" src=\"\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2021\/08\/300x100-4.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/football\/sergio-aguero-offered-role-on-argentina-staff-at-world-cup-7835528\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former striker Sergio Aguero has been offered a role on Argentina&#8217;s staff at the World Cup in Qatar to serve as a link between the players and the coaches.Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni confirmed Thursday he wants the former Manchester City star to be a middleman in Qatar.&#8220;I would like him to be close to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}