Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has revealed that he always used to receive a football as a gift for Christmas.
Aguero was speaking about his childhood days with the Match of the Day magazine and the striker has revealed that Christmas used to be predictable for him as there was always a round ball under the tree in his home city of Buenos Aires.
"It was always a football, that was my present every year! Always!," said Aguero.
"The thing is, on the pitch by my house there was a palm tree with sharp needles so if the ball went up in the tree quite often it would burst, so I would never even take the Christmas ball out – I looked after it so carefully!
"I'd only ever play with the other kid's footballs. When we did use mine I would pray it wouldn't get burst because I'd have to wait for next Christmas to get a new one!"