{"id":48612,"date":"2021-08-20T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey"},"modified":"2021-08-20T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:47:55","slug":"sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Aguero rejects Barcelona\u2019s No. 10 jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Sergio Aguero has turned down the opportunity to wear Barcelona\u2019s legendary number 10 shirt, according to Sport\u2019s Albert Roger.<\/p>\n<p>Aguero, one of Barcelona\u2019s new signings, who wore the exact number for Manchester City before moving to Barcelona in the summer, was told to take the number 10 jersey by second captain Gerard Pique.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Manchester City striker rejected the possibility of taking over the number made vacant by Lionel Messi\u2019s departure to Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Barca\u2019s number 10 jersey has been worn by players such as Diego Maradona, Pep Guardiola, Hristo Stoichkov, Romario, Rivaldo, Riquelme, Ronaldinho.<\/p>\n<p>The brand of Barcelona\u2019s number 10 jersey has become synonymous with Messi and Aguero may have rejected it given all the pressure that comes with the shirt.<\/p>\n<p>With Aguero turning down the chance to wear the No. 10, it still remains vacant with other reports suggesting that Phillipe Coutinho may wear it this season if he remains at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian is being linked away from the Camp Nou and La Liga\u2019s rules place a restriction on usable kit numbers, which would render it impossible for Barcelona to consider retiring the number.<\/p>\n<p>Coutinho has reportedly been offered the jersey and he could well step out as Barcelona\u2019s new number 10 in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Romelu Lukaku gets new jersey number at Chelsea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Sergio Aguero has turned down the opportunity to wear Barcelona\u2019s legendary number 10 shirt, according to Sport\u2019s Albert Roger. Aguero, one of Barcelona\u2019s new signings, who wore the exact number for Manchester City before moving to Barcelona in the summer, was told to take the number 10 jersey by second captain Gerard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1864,254,2583],"class_list":["post-48612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-barcelona","tag-nigeria","tag-sergio-aguero"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sergio Aguero rejects Barcelona\u2019s No. 10 jersey - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sergio Aguero has turned down the opportunity to wear Barcelona\u2019s legendary number 10 shirt, according to Sport\u2019s Albert ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sergio Aguero rejects Barcelona\u2019s No. 10 jersey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sergio Aguero has turned down the opportunity to wear Barcelona\u2019s legendary number 10 shirt, according to Sport\u2019s Albert ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-20T15:58:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-20T16:47:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-611fdca217de3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sergio Aguero rejects Barcelona\u2019s No. 10 jersey\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-20T15:58:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-20T16:47:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/img-611fdca217de3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"barcelona\",\"Nigeria\",\"Sergio Aguero\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/sergio-aguero-rejects-barcelonas-no-10-jersey\",\"name\":\"Sergio Aguero rejects Barcelona\u2019s No. 10 jersey - 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