Alfredo Torres

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Alfredo Torres
Personnel
birthday May 31, 1931
place of birth La Experiencia ,  Mexico
position Full-back
Juniors
Years station
until 1951 CD Imperio
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1951-1970 Atlas Guadalajara
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953-1954 Mexico 5 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Atlas Guadalajara
Unión de Curtidores
1 Only league games are given.

Alfredo Torres (born May 31, 1931 in La Experiencia , Jalisco ), also known by the nickname Pistache , is a retired Mexican football player . The versatile full- back could be used in all positions and often played on the offensive. He is considered the greatest idol of all time of his longtime association Atlas Guadalajara .

biography

society

He spent his youth at Club Deportivo Imperio ; a club in his neighborhood, from whose offspring a number of talents have emerged. Like, for example, his childhood friend José “Jamaicón” Villegas , who was to become his mortal enemy on the field in 1952 because he had joined the Club Deportivo Guadalajara ; the arch-rival of Torres' Club Atlas.

"El Pistache" Torres began his professional career in 1951 with the newly crowned champions of the Mexican league , Atlas, who is based in the neighboring city of Guadalajara . But just a few years after this greatest triumph of Club Atlas, the club rose to the second division in 1954 and Torres was sold (without his consent) to Deportivo Toluca FC . He only stayed there for a short time, however, because his mother, who allegedly needed her son urgently at home, insisted on his return. So he came back and achieved immediate promotion back to the top division with Atlas.

National team

Pistache Torres made his debut in the Mexican national team in the 4-0 win against Haiti on December 27, 1953 as part of the 1954 World Cup qualification , in which he also played his next two international matches against the USA (4-0 and 3-1) played in January 1954 and contributed two hits to the 3-1 victory.

In the subsequent soccer World Cup in 1954 , he played both games, but then did not play an international match.

Trainer and talent scout

Torres remained associated with Club Atlas throughout his life. After almost 20 years as a player, he worked as a trainer , assistant coach, director of the football school and, most recently, as a talent scout for the Red-Blacks. Today the training area of ​​the Atlatistas bears his name: Campo Alfredo "Pistache" Torres .

He twice led the Rojinegros back to the Primera División immediately after their relegation to the second division (1972 and 1979). Another promotion to the football club he succeeded in the 1982/83 season as coach of Unión de Curtidores .

Anecdotes

Torres was usually the last player on his team to come onto the field. On the day the Estadio Jalisco was inaugurated on January 31, 1960 when Atlas and San Lorenzo de Almagro (0: 2) met, the teams were already on the sidelines and warmed up when Torres jokingly said to his comrades: “Today I want finally be the first. ”Since then he has been known as the first player to pee at the Estadio Jalisco. "Unfortunately, I was also the first player to be sent off at this stadium," said Torres, recalling his mishap in the second game of the "five-a-side" tournament between Atlas and Oro , which his team won 2-1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As stated on the official FIFA website ( Memento of August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); in contrast, according to the above article by Omar Fares Parra, Torres reports that he joined Atlas at the age of 16 in 1951, which gives a greater likelihood of being born in 1935.
  2. ↑ Article on the official website of Atlas Guadalajara (Spanish; accessed December 24, 2010)
  3. ^ List of promoted players from the second Mexican football league ( Memento from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Torres, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH La Experiencia , Mexico