Arrived in September at FC Barcelona, after ten years at Manchester City, Sergio Agüero announced on December 15 that he was putting an end to his career for medical reasons.
On social networks, detractors of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, including politician Florian Philippot, are numerous to make the link between the recent vaccination of Barcelona players and the attacker's heart problems.
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takes stock of these rumors.
Argentina striker Sergio Agüero announced his retirement on December 15, during a press conference at Camp Nou. It was in tears that he mentioned medical reasons to justify the end of his professional football career. “Kun” by his nickname arrived at FC Barcelona in September, after ten years at Manchester City.
It's a goodbye that has caused a lot of reaction on social networks. And not necessarily the ones you might expect. Patriot Florian Philippot, as well as other detractors of the Covid-19 vaccine, have spoken. “Barcelona player Sergio Agüero is ending his career“ due to recently detected heart problems ”. In September his club boasted of having vaccinated 99.9% of the players! He was uneasy on October 30, ”wrote the one who regularly shines on Twitter for his positioning against the health policy carried out by the government. "When will the truth be? ! "
Barcelona player Sergio Aguero is ending his career "due to recently detected heart problems".
In September his club boasted of having vaccinated 99.9% of the players!
He was uneasy on October 30.
➡️ When will we get the truth ?!
https://t.co/GuuKE7uNPg
- Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) December 16, 2021
Many people supported him and pointed out: "If the problem was older it would have been spotted during the medical examinations carried out on the player's arrival at Barça".
For others, it is an "instrumentalisation to make people adhere to their cause".
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In September, information circulated that 99.9% of Barça players, from the youth section to the first team, were vaccinated against Covid-19.
This is what Florian Philippot too quickly established a link.
The health problem mentioned by Sergio Agüero was noticed by the public on October 30.
In the La Liga match against Deportivo Alavés, the Argentina striker remained on the ground for several minutes holding his neck and rib cage.
Victim of a heart attack, he was transported to the Barcelona hospital.
The first examinations revealed a complex cardiac arrhythmia, which kept him away from the field for three months.
Heart problems being among the main side effects spotted by the European Medicines Agency, critics of the bite quickly made the link. The player's cardiologist, Roberto Peidró, told Radio Con Vos denied any connection to the vaccine: “It has nothing to do with it,” he said. The most common is that this little scar is produced by a virus that happened at some point in your life and was not even detected, but it is not Covid myocarditis ”. Agüero had already suffered from a cardiac arrhythmia in 2004 when he was 12 years old. The cardiologist, however, ruled out any connection between the current health problems and the previous arrhythmia.
He is not the first athlete whose health problems have been wrongly attributed to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Last month, cardiologist Eloi Marijon explained to
20 Minutes
that there has not been, in recent months, a significant increase in the number of cases of sudden death in athletes, based on his data in Ile -of France.
Another example: the case for footballer Chirstian Eriksen on June 12.
Denmark were playing their first Euro 2020 game against Finland, the just 29-year-old attacking midfielder suffering severe heart failure in the 42nd minute.
The director of Inter Milan, his club at the time, denied the antivax theory by asserting that the player: "did not have the covid and was not vaccinated either".
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