Spain World Cup winner spotted wearing Liverpool scarf in ‘best pic you’ll see all year’ amid transfer saga
Fernando Torres turned out to be just the second dynamic Liverpool player to play and win a World Cup last in 2010 – yet it was the start of the finish of his Reds profession notwithstanding a noteworthy demonstration of obligation to the club
With Jurgen Klopp driving Liverpool to English, European and world magnificence in 2019 and 2020, by far most of his crew are world heroes because of the Reds’ lady FIFA Club World Cup triumph quite a while back.
However notwithstanding such greatness in Doha, Liverpool have been somewhat missing on the worldwide stage with regards to flaunting international world heroes during their celebrated 130-year history. Dejan Lovren turned into the 10th dynamic Red to arrive at a World Cup last back in 2018, while just five players have their hands on the well known prize while contracted at Anfield.
Also, from that quintet, just two of Liverpool’s World Cup winners really took to the field in their effective finals. Ian Callaghan and Gerry Byrne were left as observers as Roger Chase assisted Britain with lifting the Jules Rimet Prize back in 1966, while Pepe Reina was an unused substitute for Spain when they beat the Netherlands back in 2010.
In truth, the 2010 competition was not El Nino’s best hour, in spite of getting his hands on football’s generally desired prize, with the 2009/10 season one of blended feelings for the productive striker. While he’d score 22 goals in 32 games for Liverpool, he’d miss endless games through injury in the thing was a frustrating effort for the Reds, and would in this manner limit his effect in South Africa.
With the World Cup not too far off, the striker’s season finished rashly toward the beginning of April as he had to go through knee medical procedure. In the mean time, Liverpool would complete seventh in the Premier League table in his nonattendance as they neglected to fit the bill for the Heroes League, and lost to Atletico Madrid in the Europa League semi-finals subsequent to being taken out at the group-phases of Europe’s tip top rivalry that year.
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Subsequently, Rafa Benitez, the manager who got Torres to Anfield a club-record bargain, would lose his employment by common assent toward the finish of the time. With the Anfield Nationwide conflict seething on between detested owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett and the club’s poor monetary situation proven and factual, his future was unavoidably dubious as he detailed for international obligation, with Reds allies left frantically puzzling over whether their supernatural striker would push for the leave entryway as Spain tensely stood by to check whether he’d be good for the World Cup.
While the Spaniard, who had scored the goal to see Spain beat Germany to be delegated European bosses two years sooner, would return so as to contend in South Africa, he was barely at the level allies had become used to in the long stretches of time earlier. In truth, while his post-Anfield decline was not yet clear, the 2010 World Cup would be the beginning of a long farewell that Kopites feared and the start of the finish of Torres’ Liverpool profession.
Unused in Spain’s initial two warm-up games, he’d score in the span of 10 minutes of coming on in their last amicable as they ran out 6-0 winners over Poland. In any case, while that could have facilitated beginning apprehensions, his presentations once the competition started off recommended in any case.
Presented on the hour-mark as Spain opened the competition with a shock 1-0 misfortune to Switzerland, he began exclusively to be removed right on time as limited triumphs over Honduras and Chile fixed movement to the knockout stages. Saving his place for a series of-16 win over Portugal and quarter-last triumph over Paraguay, he was removed before the hour-blemish in the two events as team-mate David Manor conveyed five competition goals.
However to add to a goal, it was clear something was not right with Torres and he was decreased to substitute obligation for the semi-last against Germany, presented in the 81st moment with Spain previously driving thanks to a Carlos Puyol header. In the mean time, he didn’t actually get off the seat until extra-time against the Netherlands in the last.
However, it was at Soccer City in Johannesburg that the Liverpool striker conveyed his most significant commitment to the competition. Presented at half-time in extra-time instead of Estate, it was his half-cleared cross that tumbled to Cesc Fabregas who set up Andres Iniesta for the definitive goal.
Be that as it may, while Torres would end the night as a world boss, his celebration was before long halted abruptly by another injury. He pulled up while pursuing the ball in the last snapshots of the game with a crotch injury, with the issue later affirmed as a left adductor injury. At last surged back for the World Cup, he’d miss all of Liverpool’s pre-season and not return until a final part substitute appearance in their 2010/11 Premier League opener at home to Arsenal.
Yet, the striker won’t let one more lay-off hose his festivals. Also, it was as he celebrated around Johannesburg that he apparently dedicated his future to the Reds, no doubt stirring up a lot of help for Kopites.
The striker was shot by the world’s media wearing a Spain shirt, complete with a gold star over the public team identification, with a Liverpool scarf hung around his shoulders as he presented holding the World Cup prize up high. The club’s true site called it ‘the best pic you’ll see throughout the year’.
“Fernando Torres showed football fans across the globe the amount he cherishes Liverpool by strutting the World Cup while wearing a Reds scarf. The striker ensured his tones were nailed to the pole as picture takers from news sources all over the world caught Spanish festivals,” the site added.
“His armband demonstrated he was a Red!” was a fortnightly serenade from Liverpool fans, with his most recent demonstration of Reds responsibility establishing his place in Kopite hearts considerably further. However only a half year after the fact and Torres was being strutted in Chelsea blue following his shock £50m cutoff time day move to Stamford Scaffold.
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Currently connected with both the authoritative Premier League support and Man City during the 2009/10 season, the Spaniard had affirmed he would determine his future after the finish of the World Cup.
The week prior to the last, he said: “I guess that when the World Cup completes I will address individuals at Liverpool and they will make sense of for me the real circumstance of how things are as of now, the fate of the club and I will converse with the new coach.”
Liverpool’s battles under Hicks and Gillett would go on into 2010/11, just this time Torres was presently not the free-scoring striker Reds had celebrated previously. Introductory doubts that he needed to leave Anfield arose, yet it before long turned out to be clear he had experienced one injury such a large number of and his dangerous speed that once made him so destructive was never again very there.
Scoring his most memorable goal of the time toward the finish of August against West Brom, he would need to hold on until October 24 for his second in a 2-1 triumph over Blackburn Wanderers in what might be the main home game since FSG had purchased the club. Be that as it may, notwithstanding the triumph, Hodgson’s side stayed dug in the new environmental elements of the Premier League transfer zone.
A memorable brace followed against Chelsea two weeks later, as it was again suggested that the World Cup winner had downed tools only to show up against potential suitors. Yet he’d score just five times more for the Reds, delivering nine goals from his final 26 appearances before his £50m move to Stamford Bridge that broke Anfield hearts.
He was Liverpool’s number nine no longer. Yet by scoring just one goal for Chelsea during the rest of the 2010/11 season, the narrative changed as the pale imitation of the Reds’ once adored forward remained. While they’d fought to keep him in the summer, that talismanic striker was ultimately no longer there to fight for as the reality slowly dawned on Anfield bosses and they looked to cash in while his market value was still high.
Even when posing with that famous scarf around his neck as a World Cup winner in Johannesburg, he was already no longer Liverpool’s feared number nine. And while he’d win numerous future honours with Chelsea and back at Atletico Madrid, what should have been his greatest triumph in South Africa really clouded over what proved to be the start of Torres’ decline and the end of his days as Europe’s deadliest striker.
