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
- Spain National Team U21
- 2003– Spain National Team
TEAM
- UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship: 2001
- UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship: 2002
- UEFA European Football Championship: 2008
- World Cup FIFA: 2010
- 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
