Fernando José Torres Sanz (born in Fuenlabrada, Spain, March 20, 1984, age 26 years) is a Spanish football player who has the nickname El Niño ("Boy Boys"). His position is striker.
Torres started his career with Atlético Madrid. Together with Atlético Madrid, Torres played since junior team. He started his professional debut on May 27, 2001 and scored his first goal a week later. In the 2003-2004 season Torres scored 21 goals after the Vicente Calderon previously considered young at age 19. During the 12-year career with Atlético, Torres has been collecting 75 goals in 174 appearances in La Liga. But earlier, Torres had played for two seasons in the Segunda División, playing as many as 40 games and score 7 goals. Then he joined Liverpool in July 2007 at the age of 23 years, with a transfer value is estimated around £ 20 million record-breaking Liverpool's transfer value. Torres made history in his first season with Liverpool to become the first player to score more than 20 goals in league games in a season since Robbie Fowler in the 1996-1997 season. And on 31 January 2011 Fernando Torres officially resigned and will strengthen Chelsea. Torres digaet Chelsea 45 million pounds with the official record-breaking transfer most expensive player in plain English that were previously on hold by Robinho who moved from Real Madrid to Manchester City with the official 32.5 million pounds. Torres tied up Chelsea with a duration of a contract for five and a half years.
He also played in Spain and made his debut for the senior team during the match against Portugal in September 2003. Seven months later he scored his first goal against Italy. Torres has played with the Spanish national team in three major tournaments, Euro 2004, World Cup 2006 and Euro 2008. Torres failed to score a goal for the Spanish team dala Euro 2004, but he managed to score 3 goals in the 2006 World Cup. Torres scored the only goal in the final victory of Spain's Euro 2008 final against Germany with a score of 0-1.
Early Career
Fernando Torres, born on March 20, 1984, became interested in playing soccer since the first time small and joined together Parque 84 at the age of 5 years. [1] His grandfather was not too fond of football, but very proud to be supporters of Atlético Madrid, and Torres also inherit a supporters club from the Madrid city. [1]
Actually, Torres wanted to be a goalkeeper, like his brother. [2] However, when she was seven years old, he started playing as a striker in the league indoor besama club in the neighborhood, Mario's Holland. Three years later, when it was 10 years old, he began play in real football with Rayo 13. After a charming appearance with his new club, where he scored 55 goals, Torres was one of three Rayo 13 players who try to play with Atlético Madrid. He wowed scouts and at the age of 11, he joined the club in 1995.
Informasi klub | ||
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Klub saat ini | Chelsea | |
Nomor | 9 | |
Klub junior | ||
1995–2001 | Atlético Madrid | |
Klub senior1 | ||
Tahun | Klub | Tampil (Gol) |
2001–2007 2007–2011 2011- | Atlético Madrid Liverpool Chelsea | 214 (82) 34 (25) |
Tim nasional2 | ||
2003– | Spanyol U21 Spanyol | 55 (17) | 10 (3)
Career Award
Atlético Madrid
* Wayne
o Segunda División: 2002
Spain
* Wayne
o UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship: 2001
o UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship: 2002
o UEFA European Football Championship: 2008
o FIFA World Cup: 2010
Individual
* Winner
o Nike Cup top scorer: 1999
o Best Young European Player: 1999
o Algarve Tournament player of the tournament: 2001
o Algarve Tournament top scorer: 2001
o UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship player of the tournament: 2001
o UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship top scorer: 2001
o UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship player of the tournament: 2003
o UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship top scorer: 2003
o Premier League Player of the Month: February 2008
o PFA Team of the Year: 2008
o Liverpool's Player of the Season: 2008
o UEFA European Football Championship team of the tournament: 2008
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