In the early morning of May 26, Beijing time, 37-year-old Spanish legend Fernando Torres announced on his personal social account that he would make a comeback. Torres wrote: "I understand life in only one way, and that is to play football. So I decided to come back. I will announce my whereabouts this Friday. ”
He even attached an emoji expression to the football, as well as labels such as "The Holy Child Is Returning" and "I'm Playing Football Again". Torres's dynamic also triggered more than 200,000 netizens, including his forward partner David Villa in the national team.
Born in 1984, Torres has played as a striker and has played for Europe's top giants such as Atletico, Liverpool, Chelsea and AC Milan in his career. He made his career debut for Atletico at the age of 17 and became Atletico's youngest captain at the age of 19. He played 244 games for Atletico and contributed 91 goals.
In 2007, Torres landed in the Premier League and joined Liverpool. His combination with Gerald can be described as quite tacit, and the two have played a number of classic battles hand in hand. In three and a half seasons at Liverpool, Torres scored 81 goals and was an icon for the entire Anfield stadium.
Torres then joined Chelsea in January 2011 for a transfer fee of €58.5 million, where he won the only Champions League title of his career, despite a sharp decline in his goalscoring efficiency at the Blues. Later, after returning to Atletico, Torres also won the Europa League. At the national team level, Torres, who was selected for the Spanish men's team in 2003, scored 38 goals in 110 appearances for the country. In particular, in the final of the 2008 European Championship, it was he who overtook Bayern superstar Ram to score the winning goal and successfully helped Spain to win the cup. He was also a champion of the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012, and is a true "winner in life".
In June 2019, Torres retired from Japanese league team Shayan Tosu and has been working on football ever since, and in recent months has also joined the coaching staff of atletico Academy. Torres, now 37, works as an assistant to coach Jesús Marcos on the youth A team.