Miguel Torres Gómez

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Miguel Torres
Personal information
Full name	Miguel Torres Gómez
Date of birth	January 28, 1986 (age 21)
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height	1.74m
Nickname	Torres
Playing position	Centre-back Right-back Left-back
Club information
Current club	Real Madrid
Number	22 (38)
Youth clubs
1998 - 2003	Real Madrid Youth
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2003 - 2006 2006 - 2007 2007 -	Real Madrid C Real Madrid Castilla Real Madrid	73 (0) 14 (0) 11 (0)
National team2
2007 -	Spain U-21	1 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 4 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of February 4 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Miguel Torres Gómez (born 28 January 1986) is a Spanish football defender. He played his whole career for Real Madrid and Real Madrid Junior Team's, since he was 12.

Contents 1 La Liga & Spanish Cup 1.1 First El Clasico 2 Champions League 3 National Team 4 Statistics 5 Videos

[edit] La Liga & Spanish Cup

He made his senior debut against Écija Balompié as a starter in the Copa del Rey on 25 October 2006 because of injuries to first team defenders Fabio Cannavaro, Cicinho, and Míchel Salgado. He also played in the return leg as a substitute, replacing Sergio Ramos in the 80th minute.

Torres also started both Copa del Rey matches against Real Betis.

He then made his league debut in his fourth consecutive appearance for Real Madrid, seeing his dream come true and playing for the whole 90 minutes against Zaragoza. He kept his place in the side the following week for the game against Real Mallorca.

His performance against Mallorca led coach Fabio Capello to state that "It is not easy to find a player with as much personality and talent in attack and defence as Torres".

On February 11, 2007, in the match against Real Sociedad, Torres made his first goal Assist. After a quick run on the left flank he provided a great left footed (he is right footed by nature) cross for van Nistelrooy whose header found the net. A goal which won the game for Madrid (2-1). [1]

[edit] First El Clasico

Before Torres's first Clasico it was said that Chendo, Real Madrid's legendery Right-back had a talk with the young talent and told him in a nut-shell "Be calm. In my first clasico, we won 2-1 in the Camp Nou", Chendo was close, Real Madrid drewen a 3-3 in the Camp Nou after a hat-trick from Lionel Messi. A lot of people after the match blamed the yound defender for Messi's hat-trick saying Messi was his, and his only's responsebilety (Like Ex-Madridista Alvaro Arbeloa had only 4 dayes before). But to tell the truth, in a in-human match like this from messi, not a was there to do. It should bo pointed out that even though it was his first Clasico, the boy was very calm.

[edit] Champions League

Torres made his debut, as a starter, in the Champions League against Dynamo Kyiv in the last group stage match in the UEFA Champions League 2006-07, he played the whole match.

Torres also played the 90 minutes in both matches against Bayern Munich in the first knockout stage of the competition, as a right-backer, and ended with very solid games.

[edit] National Team

Torres was called up for the first time to the Spain U-21 for the match against England U-21 on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. A game in which he made his debut at left-back in a 2-2 draw.

[edit] Statistics

correct as of March 16 2007.

Club Performance

Club	Season	La Liga			Liga BBVA			Spanish Cup			Europe			Total
		App	Goals	Assists	App	Goals	Assists	App	Goals	Assists	App	Goals	Assists	App	Goals	Assists
Real Madrid	2006/07	11	0	1	14	0	0	5	0	0	3	0	0	33	0	1
Total		11	0	1	14	0	0	5	0	0	3	0	0	33	0	1

[edit] Videos

Torres's van Nistelrooy assist vs Real Sociedad
Torres's Raul assist vs Nastic
Torres vs Real Betis
Torres's interview after the Getafe match

Real Madrid Castilla - Current Squad
1 Codina | 2 Palencia | 3 Guillén | 4 Agus | 5 Sergio | 6 Tébar | 7 Valero | 8 Javi García | 9 Negredo | 10 Adrián | 11 Granero | 13 Casilla | 14 Bueno | 16 Sergio Sánchez | 18 Rodri | 19 Rayco | 20 Santacruz | 21 De la Red | 22 Torres | 24 Ángelo | 25 Adán | 27 Mosquera | 28 Mata | 32 Nieto | 33 Joni | 40 Velayos | 42 Parejo | Coach Míchel

Real Madrid - Current Squad
1 Casillas | 2 Salgado | 3 Roberto Carlos | 4 Ramos | 5 Cannavaro | 6 Diarra | 7 Raúl | 8 Emerson | 10 Robinho | 11 Cicinho | 12 Marcelo | 13 López | 14 Guti | 15 Bravo | 16 Gago | 17 van Nistelrooy | 18 Cassano | 19 Reyes | 20 Higuaín | 21 Helguera | 22 Pavón | 23 Beckham | 24 Mejía | 25 Miñambres | 26 Javi García | 27 De la Red | 36 Nieto | 38 Torres | 39 Valero | Coach Capello