Ferran Torres had a wonderful night for himself when he scored three goals against Germany. But who is he, and how he got those three goals scored? Here is the story of Torres.
Ferran Torres was the famous graduate of Valencia C.F. who just recently moved to Manchester City this year summer. The Spanish midfielder solely played as a winger during his time at Valencia. However, the player can also fulfill the center midfield role and he can also play as an attacker for the team.
He transferred to Manchester City with a price tag of 20 million Euros which was cheap for the talent of this player. The youth’s product of Valencia immediately put his impact on the team in the display against F.C. Porto. It was the first round of UEFA Champions League season 2020-2021 when Ferran Torres scored an exclusive goal to help Manchester City seal the victory.
Pep Guardiola confessed his admiration for the new signing. “Ferran has an incredible nose for goal. He’s a guy who works very well,” Guardiola said. “He has settled really well.”
According to the Spanish coach, instead of usually placing his new player in the wings, he could adapt a new position for Torres. Guardiola suggested that his Spanish player could be a great striker since he has a good sense of goal.
“Ferran has an incredible sense of goal. The most satisfying thing was the way they came in. Always the people who come from the bench are so important,” he said. “He is a young player and still needs a little bit of time to understand what we want to do. He’s clever in the final third, with his passes. He doesn’t cross to cross; he passes the ball.”
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Even though Ferran Torres currently is showing a massively incredible form, his early career at Valencia was not that attractive at all. One of his former teammates at the Valencia U.16 team admitted that he was not impressed by the player at all. “I can’t even remember, to be honest,” he said.
The former teammate, though, remembered that Torres was a nice kid. “Seemed a nice kid, quiet. Very good in training, I do remember that. To be fair, he wasn’t with us long,” he added.
Predictably, the Spanish attacker would not be with Valencia long despite the fact that he is a loyal fan of the Spanish side. He moved to Manchester City this summer because of a contradictory clash with Valencia’s authority. The club was rumored to push Torres to transfer to a new team since they needed money for a rebuild.
His former teammate confessed that Torres was a good guy, and perhaps, he was too ambitious to stay with Valencia. “It’s a good thing, it shows his ambition,” he said.
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He is a fast-tracker, and on his foot, there is a tattoo slogan. “I never let myself shink.”
Torres never let himself shink, but he has the ability to shink his opponents. With a clever mindset, quick feet, and a good sense of goal, he shrunk Germany with a hat-trick in the most eventual game for his national side. Joachim Low, the coach of Germany, said on Bild that “somehow, Germany was shrunk by Spain.”
“Somehow, we lost our position and showed up so many spaces while our opponent cost these spaces so effectively,” Low said.
Torres, specifically, was the one who did this thing the best. He got his name on the scoring list three times in the minutes 33rd, 55th, and 71st respectively. Manchester City’s player only played for his national team in 7 games, but he has already scored 4 goals, an astonishing scoring efficiency.
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People at Valencia have foreseen Torres’s development, and they are not surprised by it at all. Nonetheless, they are regretful of no longer being able to see him at the Mestalla stadium. Perhaps, the prediction about Torres is right. He won’t stay long.
The graduate of Valencia academy now turns himself into a new star of Manchester City and the Spanish national team.
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