Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres

File:Чако Торрес.jpg
Personal information
Full name	Juan Manuel Torres
Date of birth	(1985-06-20) June 20, 1985
Place of birth	Puerto Vilelas, Argentina
Height
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	Racing Club
Number	8
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2006	Racing Club	104	(0)
2007–2011	San Lorenzo	101	(2)
2011–2014	Metalist Kharkiv	48	(1)
2015	Atletico Defensores de Vilelas	?	(?)
2016–	Chaco For Ever	0	(0)
International career
2005	Argentina U-20	14	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 March 2016

Juan Manuel Torres, better known as Chaco Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is an Argentine football midfielder who plays in Ukraine for Metalist Kharkiv. Usually played as a defensive midfielder.

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 wereas not 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.

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.

Titles

Season	Team	Title
2005	Argentina U-20	FIFA World Youth Champion
2011/12	Metalist Kharkiv	Ukrainian Premier League Bronze Medalist
2012/13	Metalist Kharkiv	Ukrainian Premier League Silver Medalist

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.

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

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics (Spanish)
• FC Metalist profile (Ukrainian)
• FC Metalist history and statistics (Russian)
• Football Federation of Ukraine profile (Ukrainian)

• "Racing" has rejected the offer of "Dynamo" (Russian)
• Argentine fashion model moved to Kharkiv for Torres (Russian)
• Torres: "I want to make the game of Metalist much better and achieve great results" (Russian)