Fernando Torres turns forty these days and the former Liverpool striker is set to pull on a purple shirt again when he turns out for the legends team on Saturday.
Torres will line up in opposition to Ajax for his first sport back at Anfield on the grounds that taking part in in a specific charity in shape between Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard in 2015.
The Spaniard used to be loved at some stage in his time at Anfield after signing for the Reds from Atletico Madrid in 2007, scoring eighty one dreams in 142 games in a three and a half of 12 months spell with Liverpool.
But a £50m go to Chelsea in January 2011 made him public enemy variety one among Liverpool supporters, leaving the club after the turmoil of Hicks and Gillett’s ownership and subsequent sale to Fenway Sports Group.
He’d later return to Atletico Madrid before retiring after a stint in Japan, while building bridges with Liverpool followers with an look in that friendly at Anfield in 2015 and additionally back considering the fact that as supervisor of Atletico Madrid’s adolescence team.
And in that time all through retirement, Torres has undergone any other transformation, bulking up appreciably after placing in the hours in the gym.
Here’s a appear at Torres’ lengthy career from skinny teenager to strongman manager – as well as Liverpool hero, to villain and lower back once more
