Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres, better known as Chaco Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is a retired Argentine football midfielder.

Juan Manuel Torres
Personal information
Full name Juan Manuel Torres
Date of birth (1985-06-20) June 20, 1985
Place of birth Puerto Vilelas, Argentina
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position(s) Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2006 Racing Club 104 (0)
2007–2011 San Lorenzo 101 (2)
2011–2014 Metalist Kharkiv 46 (1)
2015 Atletico Defensores de Vilelas
2016 Chaco For Ever 5 (0)
2016 Chacarita Juniors 0 (0)
2017 Aktobe 6 (0)
National team
2005 Argentina U20 14 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 June 2017

Career

Former player of Argentine clubs Racing Club and San Lorenzo de Almagro (Buenos Aires), Torres made his professional debut in 2002 in the age of 17, he went on to make over 100 appearances for each of the Argentine club.

Torres was part of the Argentina U-20 team, along with such players as Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero and Pablo Zabaleta, that won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

In summer 2005, the management of Dynamo Kiev attempted to buy the young and promising FIFA World Youth Champion Juan Manuel Torres Racing Club. However, the Racing Club management were not as eager to release one of their key players, although the Torres was expressing a desire for leaving. Inter alia, the parties could not agree on money issues.[1]

On June 24, 2011, he signed a three-year contract with Metalist Kharkiv as a free agent. Both times Chaco moved to a new club, on a free transfer (as a free agent). He offered his services to Metalist Kharkiv, at the time being out of contract.

Aktobe

In January 2017, Torres signed for Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Aktobe,[2] leaving the club by mutual consent on 15 June 2017.[3]

Career statistics
As of match played 30 November 2014[4]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Metalist Kharkiv 2011–12 Ukrainian Premier League 18020-110-310
2012–13 17110-101-282
2013–14 2000-10-30
2014–15 9020-30-140
Total 46150--251--762
Aktobe 2017 Kazakhstan Premier League 6010–––70
Career total 52160--251--832

Honours

Country

Argentina U-20

  • FIFA World Youth Champion (1): 2005

Personal life

Torres has two children: a daughter with his first wife Ailyn Lobato, and a son with the actress Catalina Artusi. In September 2012, the Argentine fashion model Ivanna Palliotti left Buenos Aires and moved to Kharkiv for her boyfriend, the player of Metalist Kharkiv Chaco Torres.[5]

Chaco is the nickname given to him, because he was born in the Argentine province of Chaco.[6]

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References
  1. "Racing" has rejected the offer of "Dynamo" (in Russian)
  2. Актобе подписал Торреса. sports.kz (in Russian). Sports KZ. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  3. Чако Торрес и ФК Актобе расторгли трудовой договор.. fc-aktobe.kz (in Russian). FC Aktobe. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  4. "J.Torres". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  5. Argentine fashion model moved to Kharkiv for Torres Archived 2012-09-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  6. Torres: "I want to make the game of Metalist much better and achieve great results" (in Russian)
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