Barcelona’s new signing, Ferran Torres, is a winger who, after making himself known in Valencia, grew up at Manchester City, where Pep Guardiola exploited his goal-scoring ability by making him play again to the point that Valencian doubled his performance in front of the goal, an improvement that he also showed with the Spanish team in the hands of Luis Enrique.
“We have discovered that in the position of center forward he has some movements at the level of the best. Very similar to Jamie Vardy and this type of footballer. It moves incredibly well. He is a good finisher and he is very young “, explained Guardiola last September, talking about Ferran Torres, 21 years old.
His numbers in Valencia were 9 goals and 12 assists in 97 games. On the other hand, he only needed 43 games for Manchester City (which he reached in the summer of 2020 after paying the English team 25 million euros plus 12 in variables) to reach the 16 goals, although his assists they stayed in just 4.
Even better are the goalscoring performances he has accumulated in the Spanish national team, in which he made his debut on March 9, 2020 in the first round match of the League of Nations that Spain played at home against Germany and which ended with tie (1-1). He has already scored 12 goals, two of them scored in last summer’s European Championship, when he has barely scored 22 internationals.
Its magical night was on November 17, 2020 at the Estadio de la Cartuja, where Spain beat Germany in the return match of the group stage of the League of Nations (6-0) . Ferran Torres was the author of three of the six goals that the team nailed to Manuel Neuer.
Precisely, competing with the national team, Ferran Torres suffered a fracture in his right foot that has kept him away from the pitch since October 10. In fact, that day he already played injured in the final of the League of Nations that Spain lost against France. The misfortune occurred four days earlier, in the semifinals against Italy, in which Foios only needed 49 minutes to score the two goals that gave way to the team.
The signing is now official
But this bad trance in the form of an injury has already been practically resolved, as evidenced by the fact that the Valencian has passed the medical examination with Barcelona, and Xavi Hernández will be able to count on him during the month of January. It remains to be seen whether the Barça coach will place him as a new player, a position in which the Barcelona team now has casualties, or whether he will be replaced on the right by the Frenchman Ousmane Dembélé’s natural place.
Ferran Torres, for whom Barça will pay 55 million plus 10 in variables, according to various sources, is passionate about animals. In addition to having two adopted dogs, Minnie and Luna, he is an ambassador for the Wild at Heart Foundation, whose main mission is to remove the 600 million stray dogs in the world from suffering and give them a second life in a home.
During the confinement, the Spanish striker gave prominence to his two bitches in the videos he posted on his Instagram account. Both appeared during the message of encouragement that Ferran Torres gave to his followers, in which he explained that they were a very important part of his routine, and even joked by making them participate in the your workouts in the gym.
“I’ve always loved getting lost in the mountains or strolling along the beach in peace with the dogs. It’s my way of disconnecting “, the footballer explains on his website.
Wild at Heart Foundation is not the only charity in which it participates. It is also part of Kick Out Plastic, which fights against the rampant use of plastic to build a more sustainable world.
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