Popular Post! Tortilla9 390 Posted October 22, 2011 Popular Post! Share Posted October 22, 2011 Fernando Torres At Esquire Espana:We Spanish players have taken a step forward. It’s evident that we weren’t afraid to go abroad. Real Madrid and Barcelona have also placed their bets on national players, which helps a lot. Now the national team draws not only on players from the Liga BBVA, but also from the Premier. The team has acquired another dimension. If you manage to have a good number of players who know the football of different countries, the richness, variety and competitiveness of the team multiplies.Everything began with Luis Aragonés. As the national team coach, he was the one who was brave enough to call up los pequeños, to play them together, to conform to a style. It functioned and from that time on, Spain has had a style, something that it never had before. People always talk about la furia and la pelea. But now Spain is something else. It’s a team that wants the ball, that plays well and beautifully, and it shows that’s how it wins. My goal in Vienna? That was only one step on a long road of successes.The most expensive Spanish footballer? That’s just a number. The only thing I know is that opportunities such as the one Chelsea offered me cannot be turned down. The important thing is the confidence they have in me. Liverpool was going down a strange path. Personally, I believe the departure of Xabi Alonso to Madrid was a clear message that something was changing. I have the ambition to improve and Chelsea could offer me what every footballer desires: titles.My childhood idol was always Kiko. When I debuted with Atlético’s first team, he was still there. We shared a locker room and spent a year together. It was the closest thing to a dream come true for me. From that time on, life has taken us down different roads, but we’re still in contact. I can say that we’re good friends. Un crack.I’ve passed through three teams throughout my career: Atlético de Madrid, Liverpool and Chelsea. What I haven’t changed is my sponsor, Nike. I’ve been with them since I was 14. The relationship started when I played for Atlético’s cadete team, precisely in the 1998 Nike Cup in Italy. The best player of the tournament was given the option to sign a contract and Real Madrid’s Tello and I were chosen. Sadly, he hasn’t had the same luck in his career as I have. One’s destiny in football is always unpredictable.In England, sports are experienced in a special way. Football is to be enjoyed in detail, and English people are the only ones to to do this. It’s not that they’re better or worse than those in Spain, it’s just different. We have distinct cultures. If we try to apply this philosophy to our country, it probably wouldn’t fit with how we are. It’s a way of watching football, of understanding it and of admiring the players on your team that Spaniards don’t do.Everything that surrounds football in Spain conditions your way of life. In England, you can live after the training session or the game, enjoy the city where you reside, go to any place, train without cameras, get to your car without anyone stopping you… Here, there are no press conferences or mixed zones. When I was in Madrid and the team lost, people would constantly remind me of it, no matter where I was that week. It’s as if I had to always show that I deserved to wear this escudo. In England, the players that wear the shirt of a club are untouchable for their fans. When they criticize you, when you’re playing badly, when you’re sent off, when you miss an easy goal… that’s when they support you the most. And that’s how you improve. That’s something that we can learn.Liverpool and Chelsea are completely different clubs. They have no similarity, neither in their past nor in their present. My adaptation process for each has been completely distinct. Chelsea is in London, a huge city. I come from Madrid, also a great European capital, but this is much more of everything, for good and for bad. It’s been difficult for me to adapt here compared to when I arrived in Liverpool, a more comfortable place, smaller, where I was surrounded by Spanish teammates. In the end, the important thing is to try and organize yourself as quickly as possible. That’s what I’m doing… I can’t say that what I’ve achieved is like a dream come true, because I never dreamed of getting this far, or to where I am today. Everything that football has given me has been un extra permanente. I give thanks for that. lecter, termninja, BlueLion. and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francozola 2,040 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Great interview. How recent is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Great interview. How recent is it?November 2011 magazine but he references "the miss" so pretty recent.http://conlaroja.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/fernando-torres-at-esquire-espana/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kajo 176 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I wonder when our official site will do the interview with Fernando. The last interview was long time ago I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnchelsea 79 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Stay strong! 2 more weeks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hysteria 159 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Torres can play against Everton or still suspended? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Torres can play against Everton or still suspended?He can play against Everton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezio 22 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Torres is now on twitter. It's verified.http://twitter.com/#!/Torres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Apparently his webmaster has debunked it.Torres' official Twitter claims pop up all the time. Here's some free advice for him and his webbie...why don't you just start an official one and that will put an end to the constant is it real or not questions. It's 2011, why doesn't his official site have a twitter account? I understand if he doesn't want to tweet personally but the account can just be nominally used to inform his fans when the site is updated. And it would serve as a stakeholder against fake accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCFC 357 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Ooh... A blue tick and everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 The man does generate an amazing amount of noise even when he does nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Just to confirm, his webmaster said it's not Torres' twitter and they've requested Twitter to take it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 So that's probably the case for Sturridge too othen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I have a feel he'll simply explode tomorrow and destroy Arse. Let's see if my feeling is right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Chelsea have confirmed that Torres is NOT on twitter and @torres isn't him. Chelsea PR didn't realize it wasn't just about selling shirts, it was also researching twitter accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I have a feel he'll simply explode tomorrow and destroy Arse. Let's see if my feeling is right.In the match day thread I predicted Chelsea win, Torres hattrick. If I'm right, I'm a genius. If I'm wrong, it's the sugar high from Friday donuts and coffee that put me over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 The twitter drama continues.@BluesChronicle To clear things up on @torres: Fernando wasn't aware his management had set it up for him. Now confirmed: it is legit. Sorry for the confusion. 13 m ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 Management didn't let his webmaster know either then because he earlier said the account was fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortilla9 390 Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 @aarbeloa17 (which is real and active) It's real, but I wouldn't wait a tweet from Fernando..RT @JayyAhmed @aarbeloa17 is this the real account? @Torres?I imagine Torres started getting texts/calls from some Spanish friends giving him a hard time about twitter and he probably had no idea what they were talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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