Fernando Torres
Atlético Madrid, on loan from Italian club
Milan, and the Spain national team.Torres started his career with Atlético
Madrid, progressing through their youth system to the first team squad. He made
his first team debut in 2001 and finished his time at the club having scored 75
goals in 174 La Liga appearances. Prior to his La Liga debut, Torres played two
seasons in the Segunda División for Atlético Madrid, making 40 appearances and
scoring seven goals.Torres joined Premier League club Liverpool in 2007, after
signing for a club record transfer fee. He marked his first season at Anfield
by being Liverpool's first player since Robbie Fowler in the 1995–96 season to
score more than 20 league goals in a season.
The most prolific goalscoring
spell of his career, he became the fastest player in Liverpool history to score
50 league goals. He was named in the FIFA World XI in 2008 and 2009. Torres
left the club in January 2011 to join Chelsea fora British record transfer fee
of £50 million, which made him the most expensive Spanish player in history.
In
his first full season at Chelsea, Torres won the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions
League, despite receiving criticism for a comparatively low goal-scoring
record. The following season he scored in the final of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa
League, helping Chelsea to win the competition for the first time.Torres is a
Spanish international and made his debut against Portugal in 2003. He has been
capped over 100 times and is his country's third-highest goalscorer of all
time. With Spain he has participated in six major tournaments; UEFA Euro 2004,
the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008, the 2010 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro
2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Spain won the three tournaments from 2008 to
2012, with Torres scoring in the finals of both Euro 2008 and Euro 2012.




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