Sergio Aguero fears he won’t be able to run at a decent pace again after his cardiac arrest.

The Manchester City legend was forced into retirement after his cardiac arrest on his Barcelona debut.

The Argentinian was subsequently diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat).

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Speaking about his health on a Twitch stream, the 33-year-old said: “If I try to play football now, I run out of breath.

“If I try to play football now, I run out of breath. Sometimes, I wonder if I will ever be able to sprint again. I just feel like my heart doesn’t work properly”, he said in a Twitch stream

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‘The first 15 days I had a terrible time,’ Aguero said, also on Twitch.

‘When it happened, I thought it was nothing and that I was going to be fine, but when I arrived in the hospital and they left me in a small room alone with a lot of monitors around me.

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‘I realised something was bad. And after two days hospitalised, I started to become nervous.’

Aguero scored arguably the biggest goal in Manchester City’s history when he scored a late winner against Queens Park Rangers to snatch the league title from city rivals, Manchester United in 2012.