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Juan Manuel Torres, better known as Chaco Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is a retired Argentine football midfielder.

Juan Manuel Torres

Personal information
Full name	Juan Manuel Torres
Date of birth	(1985-06-20) June 20, 1985 (age 36)
Place of birth	Puerto Vilelas, Argentina
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2006	Racing Club	104	(0)
2007–2011	San Lorenzo	101	(2)
2011–2014	Metalist Kharkiv	46	(1)
2015	Atletico Defensores de Vilelas
2016	Chaco For Ever	5	(0)
2016	Chacarita Juniors	0	(0)
2017	Aktobe	6	(0)
National team
2005	Argentina U20	14	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 June 2017

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 were not as 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.[1]

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.

Aktobe

In January 2017, Torres signed for Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Aktobe,[2] leaving the club by mutual consent on 15 June 2017.[3]

Career statistics

As of match played 30 November 2014[4]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Metalist Kharkiv	2011–12	Ukrainian Premier League	18	0	2	0	-		11	0	-		31	0
	2012–13		17	1	1	0	-		10	1	-		28	2
	2013–14		2	0	0	0	-		1	0	-		3	0
	2014–15		9	0	2	0	-		3	0	-		14	0
	Total		46	1	5	0	-	-	25	1	-	-	76	2
Aktobe	2017	Kazakhstan Premier League	6	0	1	0	–		–		–		7	0
Career total			52	1	6	0	-	-	25	1	-	-	83	2

Honours

Country

Argentina U-20

• FIFA World Youth Champion (1): 2005

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.[5]

Chaco is the nickname given to him, because he was born in the Argentine province of Chaco.[6]

References

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish) ^{[dead link]}
• "FC Metalist profile" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
• FC Metalist history and statistics (in Russian)
• Juan Manuel Torres at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)

На других языках

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- [en] Juan Manuel Torres

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[es] Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres (Puerto Vilelas, Chaco; 20 de junio de 1985) es un futbolista argentino retirado. Su último club fue el FC Aktobe de la Liga Premier de Kazajistán.

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[it] Juan Manuel Torres

Juan Manuel Torres, meglio noto come Chaco Torres (Puerto Vilelas, 20 giugno 1985), è un ex calciatore argentino, di ruolo centrocampista.

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[ru] Торрес, Хуан Мануэль

То́ррес, Хуа́н Мануе́ль (исп. Juan Manuel Torres), более известный как Чако Торрес (исп. Chaco Torres); 20 июня 1985, Пуэрто-Вилелас, Аргентина) — аргентинский футболист, полузащитник.

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