The doublet that Fernando Torres scored against Getafe was good for something more than getting the victory for Atletico. With those two goals the red-and-white captain already adds 73 since he debuted in First Division and he puts on to the height of the mythical Adelardo Rodríguez, occupying both the ninth place in the historical ranking of top goal-scores with the red and white t-shirt.

The following station in the chart is the eighth classified, Manolo Sánchez Delgado who achieved 76 goals. In the classification of red-and-white scorers, the first position is for Adrián Escudero, top goal-scorer of all the times with 150 goals in his scoreboard in the top category of our football, continued by Luís Aragonés with 123 and Francisco Campos with 120, attainable numbers keeping in mind that the current age of the red-and-white captain -23 years - and the average scoring that is situated in 15-25 goals by campaign in League, being in the seasons 03-04 and 04-05 the top national goal-scorer of the championship.

There are still in front of Torres other historical Atletico’s players: José Eulogio Gárate (109), Joaquín Peiró (93), Gray-headed Rubén (82) or Juncosa (80). Fernando Torres that fulfills his fifth season in First División with Atleti, has already overcome other historical scorers such as Enrique Collar, Miguel, Mendonça, Ben Barek or Hugo Sánchez.


Jose antonio Garcia Sirvent