Fernando Torres keeps leaving his mark at Atletico of Madrid. With the two goals scored against Celta of Vigo, the red and white captain reached the number of 68 goals defending the red and white shirt at the First Division, a number that place him very close from two of the historic high-scoring player of the red and white team. Enrique Collar and Adelardo Rodriguez, that counts with 71 and 73 goals respectively.

At the historical classification of red and white high-scoring players, the first place is for Adrian Escudero, the greatest goal scorer with 150 goals at the highest categories of our football, followed by Luis Aragones with 123 and Francisco Campos with 120, reasonable number bearing in mind the present age of the actual red and white captain -22 yers old- and the goal average that places him in a 15,25 goal average per League Campaign, being at the 03-04 and 04-05 season the maximum national high-scoring of the Championship.

In front of Torres there are another historic players from Atletico; José Eulogio Gárate (109), Joaquín Peiró (93), Rubén Cano (82), Juncosa (80) and Manolo Sánchez Delgado (76). Fernando Torres fulfils his fifth season at First Division with Atletico, and he has overcome another historic high-scoring players such as Miguel, Mendonça, Ben Barek o Hugo Sánchez. Regarding to total numbers, Number ‘9’ adds 84 goals with Atletico counting all the goals scored at the official matches he had played at First Division, Second Division, King’s Cup and Intertoto Cup.

In other hand, and regarding Marca newspaper, scouts from Chelsea and Juventus went to Balaidos Stadium to attend the match Celta of Vigo against Atletico of Madrid in order to follow the evolution of the Madrilenian forward.


Photo: Jose Antonio Garcia Sirvent