In soccer scoreboards news, we will give a brief biography of Fernando Torres. Fernando José Torres Sanz was born in Madrid’s Fuenlabrada neighborhood on March 20, 1984. He was the youngest person who ever played for the team Atlético Madrid, and became captain at the age of only 19. Torres played in Trinidad and Tobago in the Under-17 World Cup in 2001, and in Norway in the Under-19 European Championships in 2002 – a tournament that Spain won. In 2003 Torres made his debut for the Under-21 national team.

During 2003-2004 in just 35 appearances Fernando scored 19 league goals. The first goal he ever scored for the Spanish team was in 2004 against Italy. At the end of this season Fernando was chosen for Euro 2004 as part of the Spanish squad. Then, at his debut in the 2006 World Cup finals, Fernando headed in the final goal in a match against Ukraine, with the soccer scoreboards showing a 4-0 victory for Spain.

In 2007 the English media announced that Fernando Torres was a candidate to transfer to Liverpool. In July of that year it was reported that Fernando had to cut his vacation short in order to finalize this transfer. Torres passed a Liverpool medical the following day and his transfer was confirmed and made official. On July 4th a press conference was held in Madrid to bid farewell to the fans of Atlético Madrid.

Now Fernando Torres is a striker for Liverpool and he wears the number 9 jersey. During the press conference in Liverpool, it was revealed that the transfer fee was £27 million. In addition, it was reported that Fernando actually took a cut in his paycheck after the transfer, dropping him to about £90,000 in England from £103,000 a week in Spain.

Torres played his first game in summer 2007 for Liverpool. It was a friendly match with the German team Werder Bremen. His very first goal for the Liverpool team was scored against Shanghai Shenhua in a friendly match in August, 2007. Fernando made his competitive debut on August 11, 2007 against Aston Villa, and the team won with a score of 2-1. So far, Fernando Torres has played for Liverpool for three years. He has proven to be a star player for the team during this time.

Luis Aragonés, the national team coach of the Spanish team, made a remark about Fernando, saying that he never scores two goals in the same way, which underlined Torres’s versatility as a player. Nevertheless, in November 2006 Fernando was dropped from the Spanish team for a friendly match with Romania, because in 8 matches he only scored 2 goals due to a drop in form. However, it is worthy to note that Fernando Torres did win the European Cup in 2008 and the World Cup in 2010.

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