Fernando Torres

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Who football player has the nickname El Niño ("Son of Lak-Men"). His position is striker. Fernando José Torres Sanz, who plays for Chelsea and the Spanish national team as a striker. Torres started his career with Atlético Madrid, progressing through Their youth system to the first team squad. 
Prior to his La Liga debut, Torres played two seasons in the Segunda División for Atlético Madrid, making 40 Appearances and scoring seven goals. He joined Premier League club Liverpool in 2007 after signing for a club record transfer fee. Torres Became the fastest player in Liverpool history to score 50 league goals after scoring against Aston Villa in December 2009.

Torres did not score at Euro 2004, but netted three at the 2006 World Cup. He scored twice at the UEFA Euro 2008, including the winning goal for Spain in Their 1-0 win over Germany in the Final. He won the 2010 World Cup with Spain, but did not score any goals During the tournament.


Personal Information
Full name : Fernando José Torres Sanz
Date of birth : 20 March 1984 (age 27)
Place of birth : Fuenlabrada, Spain
Height : 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position : Striker

Club Information
Current club : Chelsea
Number : 9


Early career
Torres started his career with Atlético Madrid. Together with Atletico Madrid, Torres played since junior team. In the 2003-2004 season Torres scored 21 goals after the Vicente Calderon Previously Considered at the young age of 19 years. During the 12-year career with Atlético, Torres has collected 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 seven goals.

Then he joined Liverpool in July 2007 at the age of 23 years, with an estimated transfer value of around £ 20 million That Liverpool's record-breaking transfer value. Torres has been playing with the Spanish national team in three major tournaments: Euro 2004, World Cup 2006 and Euro 2008. Torres failed to score for Spain in Euro 2004 team, but he managed to score three goals in the 2006 World Cup. Torres scored the only goal of the Spanish victory in Euro 2008 final against Germany with the final score 0-1.


Atlético Madrid
After progressing through the ranks, Torres won his first title in 1998 Important youth. In 1999, at the age of 15, Torres signed his first professional contract with Atlético. The resource persons were the resource persons Atlético Promoted to La Liga at the end of the 2001-02 season, although Torres did not perform well in the season, as he netted only six times in 36 Appearances in the Segunda División. Torres' first season in La Liga, 2002-03, was better, however, as he scored 13 goals in 29 Appearances, with Atlético finishing in 11th place.

At the age of 19, Torres was named Atletico's captain. FA Premier League champions Chelsea the resource persons were the resource persons believed to be interested in signing Torres in 2005, but Atlético president Enrique Cerezo said That They Had bof signing him. Torres scored 14 league goals in the 2006-07 season. The following day, Torres passed a medical at Liverpool's Melwood training ground. The transfer fee was the highest in Liverpool's history.

Liverpool
2007-2008 Season
Torres made his competitive debut for Liverpool against Aston Villa in a 2-1 win on 11 August 2007. Later in March, after he scored a 47th minute header against Reading at Anfield, Becoming the first Liverpool player since Robbie Fowler in the 1995-96 season campaign to score 20 league goals in a season.

In April, he scored another Champions League goal, this time against Arsenal in the quarter-final second leg, as Liverpool advanced to the semi-finals. After scoring his 24th league goal in the final game of the season, a 2-0 win against Tottenham Hotspur, he set a new record for the most Prolific scorer ever foreign goals in a debut season in England, eclipsing Ruud van Nistelrooy's 23 goals.

2008-2009 Season
Torres made a promising start to the 2008-09 Premier League season, scoring the only goal in a 1-0 away win against Sunderland. The first of these was the thousandth Liverpool goal to be scored in the Premier League. Torres scored his 50th goal for Liverpool on 24 May against Tottenham Hotspur on the final day of the 2008-09 season, the the which was his 84th appearance.


2009-2010 Season
Torres scored two goals in a 3-2 win over West Ham United on 19 September 2009, a result That took Liverpool to third in the Premier League. A week later he scored his first hat-trick of the 2009-10 Premier League season in a 6-1 victory over Hull City at Anfield. This Meant That Torres finished the season with 22 goals in 32 games in all Competitions, finishing as Liverpool's top scorer for the second time.

2010-2011 Season
Torres scored the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Blackburn Rovers on 24 October, the the which was his first goal since August. He Followed this up by scoring Both goals in Liverpool's 2-0 win over Chelsea on 7 November. On 1 January 2011, Torres scored the equalizer in a 2-1 win against Bolton Wanderers. He scored his final goal for Liverpool in a 3-0 win away at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 22 January.


Chelsea
2011-2012 Season
On 19 October, Torres scored two goals in a 5-0 victory against Genk in the Champions League, his first in international career. In February 2001, Torres won the Algarve Tournament with the Spain national under-16 team. In September 2001, Torres Represented the under-17 team at the 2001 FIFA Under-17 World Championship, but the team failed to progress through the group stage. At his first ever appearance in a FIFA World Cup finals at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Torres scored the final goal in a 4-0 victory over Ukraine with a volley. With three goals, he finished the tournament as Spain's top scorer along with fellow striker David Villa.


He was Called up for Spain's UEFA Euro 2008 squad, where he set up Villa to score Spain's first goal of the tournament in the first game in the group stage against Russia. My job is to score goals. Torres made his 60th appearance for Spain in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification victory over Turkey on 28 March 2009, Becoming the youngest player to reach this milestone.He was named in Spain's team for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in June. He scored his second hat-trick for Spain after 17 minutes into a Confederations Cup game against New Zealand on 14 June, thus recording the fastest hat-trick by a player for Spain. Although still out injured, Torres was selected for Spain's 2010 FIFA World Cup squad in May.


International Career
In February 2001, Torres won the Algarve Tournament with the Spain national under-16 team. At his first ever appearance in a FIFA World Cup finals at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Torres scored the final goal in a 4-0 victory over Ukraine with a volley. With three goals, he finished the tournament as Spain's top scorer along with fellow striker David Villa.


My job is to score goals. Torres made his 60th appearance for Spain in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification victory over Turkey on 28 March 2009, Becoming the youngest player to reach this milestone. He was named in Spain's team for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in June. He scored his second hat-trick for Spain after 17 minutes into a Confederations Cup game against New Zealand on 14 June, thus recording the fastest hat-trick by a player for Spain. Although still out injured, Torres was selected for Spain's 2010 FIFA World Cup squad in May.


Personal Life
Torres' parents are José and Flori, and he has two older siblings, Israel (born 1977) and Maria Paz (born 1976). He married Olalla Domínguez Liste, with Whom Had he been in a relationship since 2001, on 27 May 2009 in a private ceremony with just two guests at the local town hall in El Escorial, Madrid. The couple have two children, a daughter, Nora, born on 8 July 2009 at the Hospital La Rosaleda, in Santiago de Compostela, and a son, born on 6 December 2010 at Liverpool Women's Hospital, with Torres missing the fixture against Aston Villa at Anfield. In 2009, he released an autobiography entitled Torres: El Niño: My Story.

Honours






















Club

Atlético Madrid
 Segunda División (1) : 2001–02

 International
 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship (1) : 2001
 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (1) : 2002
 UEFA European Championship (1) : 2008
 FIFA World Cup (1) : 2010

Individual
 Nike Cup top scorer (1) : 1999
 Algarve Tournament Player of the Tournament (1) : 2001
 Algarve Tournament top scorer (1) : 2001
 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship Player of the Tournament (1) : 2001
 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship top scorer (1) : 2001
 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship Player of the Tournament (1) : 2002
 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship top scorer (1) : 2002
 UEFA European Football Championship Team of the Tournament (1) : 2008
 FIFPro World XI (2) : 2008, 2009
 PFA Team of the Year (2) : 2007–08, 2008–09
 Premier League Player of the Month (2) : February 2008, September 2009

No comments:

Post a Comment

 
Template Design by yuudee | Published by Zone Soccer Player | Powered by Zone Soccer Player.