Biography and the life story of Fernando Torres "Began moving to the striker position at the age of 8 years"

Fernando Jose Torres Sanz was born March 20, 1984 in Fuenlabrada, an area on the outskirts of the Spanish capital, Madrid. He was born as the last child of the couple Jose Torres and Flori Sanz Torres. Torres has two brothers named Maria and Israel.

Torres was born in an area where Real Madrid is the main club supported by residents. But he prefers Atletico. Not only that, the grandfather is also a loyal supporter of Atletico Madrid.

Since the age of 5 years Torres has begun to wrestle the game of the round leather, his first club was Parque 84. When he started playing football, his position at that time was a goalkeeper. Torres began moving to the striker position at the age of 8 years.

The father, Jose Torres also helped the development of the child, his mother also often accompanied him to the training ground. Since the age of 8, Torres played in indoor football by joining a neighboring club, Mario Holland.

At the age of 10 years, Torres began to develop into soccer field, his club when it was Rayo 13. His game with the club was very brilliant, he was able to score 55 goals in one season. Thanks to his greatness Torres along with three other players got the chance to undergo training with Atletico.

Torres's slick performance made Atletico's talent guide smitten and pulled him to Atletico Madrid's junior team in 1995. And this is Fernando Torres' brilliant career starting. Torres grew and developed and achieved his first achievement with Atletico in 1998. In addition, he was also selected as the best player.

In 1999, Torres signed his professional contract with Atletico Madrid. Even so he still played in the Atletico junior team until 2001. In mid-2000 Torres had suffered a fractured shin injury that kept him out for four months.

Torres finally made his debut with the first team on May 27 2001 against Leganes at the Vicente Calderon. A week later he scored his first goal for Atletico.

In the same year, Torres performed brilliantly when strengthening Spain in the European Cup U-16, where Spain won the championship thanks to goals from Torres in the top party and he was chosen as top scorer and best player of the tournament.

In 2001, Torres returned to triumph with the matador junior team when he won the European Cup U-19, where he was again selected as the best player and became the top scorer.

Back at club level, Torres and his friends succeeded in bringing Atletico to the Segunda Division championship in the 2001/02 season and promotion to La Liga. In that season Torres only scored 6 goals in 36 appearances. But for an 18-year-old player that's more than enough.

Torres began playing in the La Liga season 2002/03. His performance in that season was better than before, when he scored 13 goals in 29 appearances, and brought Atlético to finish in 11th position in the final standings. In the following season, Torres's performance was getting better, he scored 19 goals in 35 appearances in La Liga.

At the age of 19, Torres was named the team captain, and in the same year for the first time in the European club competition. In the summer of 2005 Torres was targeted by Chelsea, but the athletic club director was reluctant to release his young player.

Torres's appearance from season to season is still stable, in his last season he made 15 goals in 40 matches in all competitions. The glory of Torres made the English club, Liverpool recruited him in 2007. Together with the Reds Torres contracted for six years.

Meanwhile, for seven seasons defending Atletico torres has recorded 91 goals in 244 matches in all competitions.

With Liverpool, Torres made his competitive debut against Aston Villa on August 11, 2007. He scored his first goal in the Premier League against Chelsea a week later at Anfield in a match that ended in a 1-1 draw.

While his first appearance in the Champions League against FC Porto in September 2007, where he also scored in the match. That same month Torres scored his first hat trick for the Reds in a win over Reading.

His first season in England he passed with a score of 33 goals from 46 appearances, in February 2008 Torres was crowned as the best player in the primary league.

Fernando Torres spent four seasons defending Liverpool with a record 81 goals in 142 matches in all competitions. Although not yet given a trophy, but his performance managed to make Chelsea again interested in recruiting him.

And in January 2011, Torres officially set foot on Stamford Bridge. He made his debut on 6 February 2011 with a 1-0 home defeat to his former club, Liverpool.

In the 2011/12 season Torres helped the Blues win the championship title after winning a penalty shootout against Bayern Munich at the Allianz arena. In the following season he won the Europa League.

On 22 October 2013, Torres made his 100th appearance for Chelsea in a match against Schalke 04 in the Champions League and marked the occasion by scoring two goals in a 3-0 win.

In the summer of 2014 Torres joined AC Milan on loan. But in San Siro his appearance was not very satisfying and only lasted 5 months there. Until finally in December 2014 Torres returned to his childhood club, Atletico Madrid.

His second period with Atletico, Torres has won the Europa League trophy in the 2017/18 season. Post from Atletico, Torres joined the Japanese club, Sagan Tosu. At this club Torres decided to retire from the world of football at the end of the 2018/19 season.

At the international level, after performing brilliantly with the Spanish junior team, Torres returned to appear good with the senior team. He is the hero of Spain's victory over Germany in the final of EURO 2008. Torres has won two European trophies and 1 world cup trophy with La furia Roja. Since making his debut in 2003, he has appeared 110 times and scored 38 goals.

In his personal life, the player nicknamed El Nino was married to Olla domingues, when he was still playing for Liverpool. His second marriage has been blessed by three children. The other side of Torres's life is that he has a loving and gentle nature and is friendly to others.

Apart from football, music, playing games, and open reading are also activities carried out by Torres in his busy schedule as a footballer. Not only that, Torres is also very fond of food and often cooks in the kitchen, he is a fan of seafood.

Now, after not playing football, he will always be remembered as one of the best strikers of the golden generation of Spain ever.