Fernando Torres

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Full name           : Fernando José Torres Sanz
Date of birth      : March 20, 1984
Place of birth     : Madrid, Spain
Height                : 186 cm
Playing position : Striker


HISTORY


At the age of five are invited to join Fernando Torres in Parque 84 football clubs by his grandfather who was not too fond of football bola.Torres began 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 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 an estimated transfer value of £ 20 million record-breaking fee of Liverpool. Torres made history in his first season with Liverpool by becoming the first player to score over 20 goals in league games in a season since Robbie Fowler in the 1996-1997 season. And on January 31, 2011 Fernando Torres and will officially leave for Chelsea. Torres digaet Chelsea 45 million pounds with the official record-breaking transfer most expensive player in plain English that were previously held by Robinho from Real Madrid to move to Manchester City with a tag of 32.5 million pounds. Chelsea Torres tied the duration of the 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 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 dala Euro 2004, 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.

CAREER


CLUB

• 2001–2007 Atlético Madrid
• 2007–2011 Liverpool
• 2011- Chelsea

INTERNATIONAL

• Spain National Team U21
• 2003– Spain National Team

AWARDS


TEAM

• UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship: 2001
• UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship: 2002
• UEFA European Football Championship: 2008
• World Cup FIFA: 2010

INDIVIDUAL

• Nike Cup top scorer: 1999
• Best Young European Player: 1999
• Algarve Tournament player of the tournament: 2001
• Algarve Tournament top scorer: 2001
• UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship player of the tournament: 2001
• UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship top scorer: 2001
• UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship player of the tournament: 2003
• UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship top scorer: 2003
• Premier League Player of the Month: February 2008
• PFA Team of the Year: 2008
• Liverpool Player of the Season: 2008
• UEFA European Football Championship team of the tournament: 2008

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Cesc Fabregas

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full name                  : Francesc Fabregas Soler
Date of birth             : May 04, 1987
Place of birth            : Arenys de Mar, Spain
Height                         : 180 m
Playing position        : Central Midfielder

PLAYER PROFILE
Born in the neighbourhood of Arenys de Mar, in the heart of Catalonia, Spain. Cesc's football career started with Spanish giants, FC Barcelona. His exceptional performance for Barcelona B Team earned a call up with the Spain U17 team. He traveled with the team to the FIFA U17 Championships in 2003 where he was named best player as well as top goal scorer, even though his team finished second to Brazil.

CLUB

• FC Barcelona
• Arsenal

INTERNATIONAL

• The Best Player World Cup U-17 (2003)
• Top Scorer World Cup U-17 (2003)

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Xavier Hernandez Creus

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full name                 : Xavier Hernandez Creus
Date of birth            : January 25, 1980
Place of birth           : Terrassa, Spain
Height                        : 1.70 m
Playing position       : Midfielder, Playmaker

PLAYER PROFILE
Xavi joined Barcelona at age of 11 and has progressed quickly. He was one of Barcelona B's most important players in their successful quest for Second Division promotion. He joined the first team in 1998 and scored on his debut against Mallorca. Soon he proved that he could play any position in midfield and was Barcelona and Spain's key player ever since. His importance was best expressed by Spain's coach Luis Aragones who decided to take him to World Cup 2006 even though he has just returned from a though injury which kept him out of action for 5 months. He said: "They say that it is a gamble to take Xavi with us, but I say it would be a crazy gamble to leave him at home". He was not wrong.

CLUB
FC Barcelona.

AWARDS

• Silver medal at Sydney Olympic Games 2000
• FIFA World Youth Championship 1999
• La Liga: 2004/2005, 2005/2006,2010/2011
• Spanish Supercup: 2005/2006, 2006/2007,2010/2011
• Champions League: 2005/2006,2010/2011

NATIONAL TEAM

• Euro Cup 2008
• FIFA World Cup 2010

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Gerard Pique

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Full name             : Gerard Pique
Date of birth        : February 2, 1987
Place of birth       : Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Height                  : 1.93 m
Playing position   : Defensive midfielder, right back

PLAYER PROFILE

Gerard Pique Bernabeu (born February 2, 1987, age 24 years) was a Spanish national football player who once played for Manchester United FC. He defended the club of FC Barcelona B since July 1, 2004. In the 2006-2007 season he was loaned out to Real Zaragoza. He defended the Spanish national team U17, U19, and U21. Now he defended the club FC Barcelona and became one of the players who brought Spain to win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

CLUB
Current club : Barcelona
Number       : 3

JUNIOR CAREER
2001-2004 FC Barcelona B

SENIOR CAREER

• 2004 - Manchester United
• 2006-2007 - Real Zaragoza
• Barcelona

NATIONAL TEAM
2006 - Spain U-21

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Gianluigi Buffon

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Full name           : Gianluigi Buffon
Date of birth       : January 28, 1978
Place of birth      : Carrara, Italy
Height                : 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position  : Goalkeeper

PLAYER PROFILE

Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon (born in Carrara, January 28, 1978, age 33 years) was a professional soccer player from Italy. He now joined the Turin club, Juventus FC. Buffon also a goalkeeper in the Italy national football team. He bought Juventus from Parma in 2001. When delivering his best achievement was winning the 2006 World Cup Italy. Until now, Buffon is often referred to as one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Awards she has received one of them is the Best Goalkeepers Serie A title which he had achieved as much as eight times.

Born of a family background in sports with her mother Maria Stella as an athlete throwing a discus and father Adriano Buffon as weight lifters, Buffon was the first child of three siblings. Two sisters Veronica and Guendalina is also currently works as a volleyball athlete. Uncle Angelo Masocco Buffon himself is also works as a basketball athlete. One of the legendary Italian goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon is still no blood relationship with the grandfather Gianluigi Buffon.

AWARDS HE EVER ACHIEVED

CLUB

1. Parma

• UEFA Cup (1): 1998-99
• Coppa Italia (1): 1998-99
• Supercoppa Italiana: 1999

2. Juventus

• Serie A (2): 2001-2002 and 2002-03 (including two titles are also canceled in 2004-05 and 2005-06)
• Serie B (1): 2006-07
• Supercoppa Italiana (2): 2002 and 2003

INTERNATIONAL

1. Italy U21

• Champion U-21 European Championship in 1996

2. Italy

• Winner of 2006 FIFA World Cup

INDIVIDUAL

• Bravo Award: 1999
• UEFA Champions League Most Valuable Player: 2003
• UEFA Club Football Awards Best Goalkeeper: 2003
•  FIFA 100 [37]
• Yashin Award: 2006 [38]
• 2006 FIFA World Cup All-Star Team
• European Footballer of the Year (Silver Ball): 2006 [39]
• Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
• Onze d'Onze (Ideal Team of the Year, GK): 2003, 2006
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2004, 2006
• FIFPro World XI: 2006, 2007
• IFFHS Best Goalkeeper: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
• UEFA Euro 2008 - Team of the Tournament

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