Curro Torres
Cristóbal Emilio Torres Ruiz ( * December 27, 1976 in Ahlen, Germany ) is a Spanish football player. The defender is at Gimnàstic de Tarragona under contract.
Career
Born in Germany Spaniards began his career in the youth of Damn CF. About UD Gramanet we went to Valencia. There he spent two years playing regularly for the B team. The defender was then Valencia at Recreativo Huelva (1999/ 00) and CD Tenerife ( 2000/ 01), with which he managed the rise under coach Rafa Benitez in the first division, awarded. Beginning of the 2001/02 season came Curro Torres back to Valencia. There he was one of the central figures that contributed to the fact that Valencia was twice champion (2002, 2004) and a time UEFA Cup winner (2004) - Rafa Benitez back under. From 2005 to Curro Torres has often been plagued by injuries, so that he was able to record only three missions during the 2005/ 06 season. In the following season, it was then already its 17th During the 2007/ 08 season was Curro Torres awarded to Valencia Erstligarivalen Real Murcia, as his chances of a regular place in Valencia by the strong appearance of his strongest competitor, Miguel were not very high before the season. Since Curro Torres then had seriously injured even during the season and failed to end of season, he had his place in the team squad clear so that he stood at the end as a non- registered player in Murcia under contract. After his return to Valencia for the season 2008/ 09 he played only two games in the UEFA Cup and came to a league bet on the last season game. For the season 2009/10 he moved to Gimnàstic de Tarragona.
Curro Torres played five times in the Spanish national team. His first game he played in November 2001 in a 1-0 win against Mexico. He was one of Spain's squad for the 2002 World Cup, in which he played a game on.
Achievements
- Spanish Champion: 2002, 2004
- Spanish Cup winner: 1999
- UEFA Super Cup winner: 2004
- UEFA Cup winners: 2004
- Participation in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea ( 1 Application )
Others
Torres parents moved shortly before his birth from Granada to Germany, so that he was born in Ahlen. Was still a child Torres pulled one back to Spain (Catalonia ).