Personal information | |||
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Full name | Manuel Sánchez Torres | ||
Date of birth | 1 January 1960 | ||
Place of birth | Terrassa, Spain | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
PH Almelo | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
1978–1985 | Twente | 172 | (53) |
1985–1987 | Valencia | 35 | (1) |
1987–1990 | Roda | 36 | (4) |
1990–1991 | NEC | 12 | (4) |
1992–1993 | Heracles | 0 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
Manuel Sánchez Torres (born 1 January 1960 in Terrassa, Barcelona, Catalonia) is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a forward.
Almost all of his professional career was spent in the Netherlands, where he appeared for three different teams - namely FC Twente - and played in nearly 250 official games.
When Torres was seven years old, he moved with his parents to Almelo in the Netherlands. He started his football career at local amateur club PH Almelo, being subsequently noticed and signed by Eredivisie side FC Twente.
On 17 September 1978, aged 18, Torres made his league debut for Twente, in a home match against Sparta Rotterdam, scoring his first goal a few weeks later, at HFC Haarlem, and ending his first season with three goals in 23 matches, as the Enschede club finished in 11th position and reached the final of the Dutch Cup, lost to league champions AFC Ajax.
From 1980 onwards, Sánchez Torres scored in double digits in every season at Twente, safe for the 1982–83 campaign, which ended in relegation to the second division - followed by immediate promotion, with player netting 11 times for the runners-up.
In 1985, Torres returned to his country and signed for Valencia CF, making his debut for the Che against Real Valladolid. During his spell with the club, where he was coached by legendary Alfredo Di Stéfano, he failed to reproduce his previous form, scoring only once and also suffering La Liga relegation in his first season.
After leaving Valencia, Sánchez Torres returned to Holland and joined Roda JC in the top division, but appeared sparingly for that and his following clubs, NEC Nijmegen and Heracles Almelo - no games whatsoever for the latter - due to injury, retiring from football in 1993, aged 33.
Season | Country | Club | Competition | Matches | Goals |
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1978/79 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eredivisie | 23 | 3 |
1979/80 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eredivisie | 5 | 0 |
1980/81 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eredivisie | 31 | 11 |
1981/82 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eredivisie | 33 | 15 |
1982/83 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eredivisie | 21 | 3 |
1983/84 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eerste Divisie | 26 | 11 |
1984/85 | The Netherlands | Twente | Eredivisie | 33 | 10 |
1985/86 | Spain | Valencia | La Liga | 20 | 1 |
1986/87 | Spain | Valencia | Segunda División | 15 | 0 |
1987/88 | The Netherlands | Roda | Eredivisie | 18 | 2 |
1988/89 | The Netherlands | Roda | Eredivisie | 18 | 2 |
1989/90 | The Netherlands | Roda | Eredivisie | 0 | 0 |
1990/91 | The Netherlands | NEC | Eredivisie | 12 | 4 |
1992/93 | The Netherlands | Heracles | Eredivisie | 0 | 0 |