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(Whistle)

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(WOMAN) Run, son!

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(LAUGHS)
-What a shame!

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Oh, man!

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(Shouting)

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-Well done, Ferni!

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Come on, Fernando!

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-So what is it? If they win,

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are they already in the final?

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-They have to fight
against more teams.

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And, with Fernando there,
history changed.

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-Come on, son, this is yours!
(CHILD) Oh!

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(WOMAN) Goal!

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(OTHER WOMAN) Good!

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(Traffic noise)

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ON 22 JUNE 2019, FERNANDO TORRES
ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT

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FROM PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
AFTER 18 YEARS

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FUKUOKA (JAPAN)
AUGUST 2019

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FIVE DAYS BEFORE RETIREMENT

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"Then say when someone announces
they're leaving somewhere

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they've already left

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and in a way, that's how I feel."

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"Honestly,
I never thought about the end,

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or how the end would be.

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You dream...

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about playing
and think about your debut,

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your first goal, if you'll be chosen
for your country, if you'll win

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a championship,
if you'll achieve your goals,

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but you never think:

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'How will it end?'"

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FERNANDO TORRES
THE LAST SYMBOL

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(Children's voices)

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(BOY) Mum, mum, mum!
-With her.

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(TORRES) "I was very shy as a kid,

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too shy.
I missed out on a lot.

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I was always very conformist,"

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one of the things my mother always
berated me for when I was young.

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I told him: "They're going
to throw you all in the same boat.

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It can't be like that.
If someone says: 'One plus one is four',

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you say:
'No, one plus one is two'

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and keep them straight". But he...

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"he was always
a very introvert child, shy."

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(WOMAN) Goodbye, children.

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(CHILDREN) Goodbye, teacher.

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Football has no doubt helped me
break a lot of boundaries.

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"I managed to lose that shyness
because of a ball,

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go up to some guys
I didn't know and say:

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'Can I play?'
'Yes, go on that team.'"

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(Murmuring voices)

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OK!

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(Murmuring voices)

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"And my brother,
like all older brothers,

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was what I wanted to be.

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I wanted to be a goalkeeper
because my brother was.

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I wanted to play football
because my brother taught me

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what playing football was,

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being with friends and competing
on those concrete pitches,"

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and as it goes, one day I came home

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with my two front teeth in my hand.

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(FLORI) "'Damned football,
I've had enough',

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and everything else...
We had to give him false teeth,"

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he came with no teeth,
his front ones were missing.

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He had no teeth.

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There was a bit of drama at home

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that ended up
with my mum completely forbidding me

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from playing in goal again.

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So I have to thank my mother
for changing position.

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(WOMAN) Come on, Fernando!

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It'll be his chicken legs,
Fernando doesn't have human legs.

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(OTHER WOMAN LAUGHS)

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-look what he has to put up with.
Don't make a fool of him!

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(Children's voices)

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(FERNANDO)
"When I was around five or six,

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I was playing in my first team
and from day one

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they put me up front."
-Blondie!

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-"The following year,
I became a starter for the league team

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until I got the season
when we changed from indoor football

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to 11-a-side."

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♪ (ALL SINGING) Champions, champions!

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♪ Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh! ♪

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-Let's get in the pool!
-To the pool!

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(SHOUTING)

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And I played football every day.

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During one of the trips
to my mum's village,

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where my grandparents lived,

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my grandfather had
an Atlético Madrid plate.

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A plate with the crest
of Atlético Madrid

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and I saw: "Eulalio Sanz",
my dad's name.

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And my dad had a thing...
Nobody could ever touch his plate!

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I didn't know what Atleti was
not even that it was about football.

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And one day he asked his grandfather,
because he always saw that plate:

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"Grandad, what is that?
What is it?"

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He said:
"It's the Atlético Madrid crest,

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the best team in the world."

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(FERNANDO)
"I think that if my grandfather had

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a plate from a different team,
he wouldn't have been able"

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to tell me with the same passion

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what another club meant to him.

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He could only have done it
with Atlético Madrid.

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(Children's voices)

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Fernando!

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(FERNANDO) "The most important prize
that Rayo 13 gave us

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was the three best players
of the season.

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They could go for a trial

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to join the Atlético Madrid academy."

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In the end, on a big table
in the Calderón stadium

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there were huge lists.

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"'No, no, no, no, no... and no'.
Then one appeared

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called Fernando Torres

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and yes, straight away. Then I realised,

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I said: 'He's got something.'"

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1995. ATLÉTICO MADRID
SIGNS FERNANDO TORRES

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"First I called my grandad:

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'Grandad, I'm going to play for Atleti'."

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And I don't think he believed it.

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When he told him they had signed him...

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"I've seen what I needed to see

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and my dreams have come true."

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"He always ranted to him about Atleti:

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'Atleti is the people's team',
This, and that...

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Atleti is life."

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(Soft music)

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"Ball to Torres, he's onside.

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-Oh!
-What a goal! How amazing!"

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(Whistle)

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"What great work from the lad!

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He passed the 13-metre line.
-Yes, yes..."

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(FERNANDO) "I never set myself goals,
I didn't even think

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I could play seriously.

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I played because it was fun.

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Maybe it helped me that my family
wasn't a footballing family

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and on the weekends,
the ritual was being in front of the TV

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watching your team
and not talking about anything else.

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If they lost, no dinner."

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I played because I enjoyed it.

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(FLORI)
"I just wanted happiness for my kid

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and for him to enjoy himself."

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Many days I would tell him:
"Fernando,

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if you get tired of it, we won't come.
Don't worry.

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Or if you don't like it..."

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He'd say to me:
"Mum, I'm not tired of it.

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Are you?'
I said: "No. I'm not tired of it.

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If you don't, I won't."

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The goalkeeper came at me

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and went dived one way too soon,

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so I didn't shoot
because if I had, he would have got it.

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FUKUOKA (JAPAN)

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FOUR DAYS BEFORE RETIREMENT

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"I chose to retire
because I wasn't enjoying it anymore.

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A footballer plays football

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because it's what they love.
I've been doing since I was 10."

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The day came when I realised
that week after week,

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I wouldn't say I was suffering,
but I wasn't enjoying it.

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"In the end, my secret to life

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is to try to be happy in what you do.

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I've always looked
at my career backwards.

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I love my past in the academy

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with Atlético, before that with Rayo 13,
and before that with Mario's Holanda,

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on concrete pitches

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to pitches full of mud
and stones and puddles...

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with Mikasa balls,
that weighted 10 kilos for a kid"

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who almost weighed less than the ball.
All of that hardened me.

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(WOMAN) Come on, Fernando!

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Goal!

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(CROWD) Goal!

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-Another!

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-"I saw the little blonde kid,
wearing number nine,"

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with baggy sleeves flapping everywhere,

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score seven goals that day

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and I said: "Wow, this kid...

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He is good". I said to him:

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"If you believe in yourself,
you'll be professional.

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You have skills."

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-"The Atlético Madrid youngster
won the Nike Cup in Italy,

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a bit like the Euros for clubs.

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They're 14-year-old lads..."

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-"Atlético Madrid wrote him"

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a contract, made it ironclad.
They put a huge clause

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because the big teams
in Europe wanted to sign him

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"and that was when Petón got him
with Bahía Internacional."

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-"Bahía had an idea that was inflexible

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until inflexibility made way
for excellence. And that was"

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the only reason
that Bahía broke their rules

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of not representing players under 16.

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2001 EUROPEAN UNDER-16
CHAMPIONSHIP, ENGLAND

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Run, Fernando!

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-Fernan, Fernando!

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-Pressure!
-"What's your name?"

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-Fernando.
-Fernando what?

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-Torres.
-Have we seen the best Fernando Torres

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or is there more to come?

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-Hey, you never know...
It depends on the circumstances,

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but, well, you always want
to push a bit further and...

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For now, I'm happy with what I'm doing,

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but I know I can improve.

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(COMMENTATOR) "The top scorer
against the unbeaten goalkeeper.

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To be or not to be,
he shoots, he scores!

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Goal for Spain!
Goal for Fernando Torres!"

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♪ (ALL SINGING) Champions, champions!

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♪ Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh! ♪

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I would love to make my debut
for the first team

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but everything in good time.

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With Atleti or Real Madrid?

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With Atleti.

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-"The first time I saw Fernando

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was in that European Under-16
Championship in England and...

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And I was really surprised."

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He was incredible.
I remember how he arrived,

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very shy, Fernando, a child...

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"I remember what I told him:

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'You know why you're here?'.
And he said: 'No, no, no'."

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"You're starting to train
with the first team tomorrow.

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Are you ready?"
And he said: "Yes."

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The shock must have been brutal,
he could've been scared, he could have.

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But no, he showed his character
from day one.

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Shy, humble, but... (LAUGHS)

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"A real determination
since he was a kid."

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(Soft music)

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(FERNANDO) "I was on cloud nine.
It was just training,

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but it was the start.
I arrived when they told me to,

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I sat on my bench, in the corner,
without saying anything..."

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I had no clothes.
I asked the kit man,

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who shouted:
"Take what you can from there!"

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-"I went in, I saw him sitting
in a corner, mouth shut, shy,"

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in silence...

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I said: "What's up, man?
This is Atlético!"

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And that was the first time we met.

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"His eyes shined with hunger.
He was what he's always been:

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a guy with an amazing healthy ambition."

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When you go onto the pitch,
you don't worry

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about the league you're in,
just about winning,

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you get involved in the game
and only think about that.

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But, today I have to play
in the second team,

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and it will be good for me.

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(CROWD) Torres, Torres!

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MAY 27, 2001. FERNANDO TORRES DEBUTS
WITH ATLÉTICO DE MADRID FIRST TEAM

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(Cheering and whistling)

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"There was something about my debut.

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I noticed it, going on the pitch

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and getting an ovation
without doing anything."

245
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(Cheering)

246
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"I remember the heat,

247
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the feeling of dryness in my mouth
but mainly the noise."

248
00:12:38.708 --> 00:12:40.958
The sound of the Calderón from inside.

249
00:12:41.041 --> 00:12:45.500
(Crowd cheering)

250
00:12:45.916 --> 00:12:48.125
"It creates a different connection,
a special one.

251
00:12:48.333 --> 00:12:51.125
It starts to sound different
every time I get the ball."

252
00:12:51.250 --> 00:12:55.916
(Crowd chants and cheers)

253
00:12:56.833 --> 00:12:59.333
"When do crowds get so excited

254
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about a kid
they've never seen playing before?"

255
00:13:01.958 --> 00:13:06.041
♪ (CROWD) Fernando Torres,
# ee-oh, ee-oh, ee-oh!

256
00:13:06.166 --> 00:13:09.166
♪ Fernando Torres,
# ee-oh, ee-oh, ee-oh! ♪

257
00:13:09.333 --> 00:13:13.333
"Two things came together at that time:
the need for a new hero

258
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who brings hope

259
00:13:14.875 --> 00:13:18.250
and I think they've always seen me
as one of them."

260
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Because ultimately, it was what it was.

261
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A kid who was in the stands

262
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"I had the chance to go out
onto the pitch

263
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and run and fight like any fan would,

264
00:13:28.041 --> 00:13:31.041
but they do it with their voice.
I could do it on the field."

265
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(Cheering)

266
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Between Fernando and Raúl?

267
00:13:35.166 --> 00:13:37.083
-For me, Fernando.
What can I say?

268
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And he's going to show it.

269
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(COMMENTATOR)
"An opening for Iván Amaya...

270
00:13:41.958 --> 00:13:45.333
A cross from the ex-Rayo man...

271
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Goal...

272
00:13:47.916 --> 00:13:52.041
for Atlético Madrid!
Fernando Torres, with his head!

273
00:13:52.166 --> 00:13:55.750
A goal from the 17-year-old!

274
00:13:55.833 --> 00:13:58.208
Fernando Torres scores!

275
00:13:58.291 --> 00:14:01.875
And celebrating on the bench is the man

276
00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.041
who he was substituted for,
Kiko Narváez!

277
00:14:04.125 --> 00:14:07.125
In the 35th minute,
Fernando Torres has scored!"

278
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(Children's voices and shouting)

279
00:14:12.333 --> 00:14:13.458
"He made his debut,

280
00:14:13.583 --> 00:14:16.250
and created a huge expectation
in his first match,

281
00:14:16.541 --> 00:14:19.708
but a week later he scored
and that's what set off the madness."

282
00:14:19.791 --> 00:14:22.666
-I'm reminded of a classic image
in human history,

283
00:14:22.791 --> 00:14:24.375
of the hero who appears

284
00:14:24.458 --> 00:14:26.958
when he is needed most.

285
00:14:27.166 --> 00:14:28.750
Atleti were in the second division

286
00:14:28.833 --> 00:14:30.916
"and they fell in love.
They fell in love

287
00:14:31.041 --> 00:14:34.083
immediately because Atlético had
something to hold on to.

288
00:14:34.541 --> 00:14:37.666
I think all the kids at the time

289
00:14:37.750 --> 00:14:38.875
joined Atleti,

290
00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.416
despite the temptation
of joining Real Madrid,

291
00:14:41.500 --> 00:14:44.000
because of Torres.
They all had Torres' shirt...

292
00:14:44.125 --> 00:14:46.375
For me, he was the saviour
of a generation."

293
00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:48.541
-OK.
-Cool.

294
00:14:48.958 --> 00:14:50.416
-Can you sign it?

295
00:14:50.500 --> 00:14:52.833
It's for my sister and a friend.

296
00:14:52.916 --> 00:14:54.083
-For Jaime...

297
00:14:54.166 --> 00:14:55.250
-Torres...

298
00:14:55.333 --> 00:14:57.083
and Aguilera.
-From Aguilera to me!

299
00:14:57.208 --> 00:15:00.791
(FUTRE) "When at 16,
they put a pen in your hand

300
00:15:00.916 --> 00:15:03.375
and say:
'Can I have your autograph?',

301
00:15:03.708 --> 00:15:05.875
you can believe
you're the best in the world."

302
00:15:06.458 --> 00:15:08.666
Your mind can change completely.

303
00:15:08.791 --> 00:15:11.875
-"I call him because Futre tells me
he'll look after him,

304
00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:13.125
that he's on top of it,"

305
00:15:13.250 --> 00:15:16.666
kind of protect him from the media.
That was my first job.

306
00:15:17.041 --> 00:15:18.833
We knew where Fernando was,

307
00:15:18.958 --> 00:15:21.375
who he was with,
who he ate and slept with...

308
00:15:21.500 --> 00:15:22.750
"And Fernando never changed."

309
00:15:23.375 --> 00:15:27.041
(FLORI) "We gradually accepted him
and said: 'Well...

310
00:15:27.541 --> 00:15:29.375
that's what he's like'. It's like, sure,"

311
00:15:29.708 --> 00:15:33.458
we could only see him
as we see him now. He's my son.

312
00:15:34.541 --> 00:15:37.000
(CHILD)
Torres, can you sign this, please?

313
00:15:37.125 --> 00:15:39.833
"The craziness of autographs,
I don't know. Whoever comes..."

314
00:15:40.083 --> 00:15:42.333
whoever waits...

315
00:15:42.458 --> 00:15:45.416
He signed everything for the kids...
Like it was a God-given order.

316
00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:47.208
(CHILD) Torres!

317
00:15:47.708 --> 00:15:50.208
And the excitement appears as a cherub

318
00:15:50.291 --> 00:15:52.458
"with freckles,
an exceptional footballer,

319
00:15:52.625 --> 00:15:55.750
and he's got a childlike face,
freckled, very good-looking,

320
00:15:56.041 --> 00:15:59.041
which is ideal for sports marketing."

321
00:15:59.125 --> 00:16:01.500
So you put him on front covers,
it works...

322
00:16:01.583 --> 00:16:04.000
The Niño, the Niño,
the Niño Torres, the Niño Torres,

323
00:16:04.083 --> 00:16:05.416
and his rise is exponential.

324
00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:08.875
THE NIÑO

325
00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.291
THE NIÑO STARTS IN GETAFE

326
00:16:12.416 --> 00:16:14.708
(FERNANDO)
"The reason behind 'Niño'. I think

327
00:16:14.791 --> 00:16:17.625
it's because all kids who come
through the academy are 'niños'

328
00:16:17.708 --> 00:16:19.791
because people don't know their name."

329
00:16:20.250 --> 00:16:23.291
"Niño, niño, niño."
Because I stayed, so did the nickname.

330
00:16:24.166 --> 00:16:25.458
(CHILD) ¡Fernando Torres!

331
00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:28.583
Fernando Torres, hey!
-Fernando Torres!

332
00:16:28.791 --> 00:16:31.500
(CHILD) Look, it's Fernando!
Fernando Torres!

333
00:16:31.750 --> 00:16:33.625
-Fernando Torres is here!

334
00:16:33.750 --> 00:16:36.625
(FERNANDO) "Many kids thought
they would see a kid."

335
00:16:36.708 --> 00:16:39.166
"But he's a man, mum!", they would say.

336
00:16:40.041 --> 00:16:41.250
So in a way,

337
00:16:41.333 --> 00:16:43.625
the nickname stayed with me
for my whole career

338
00:16:43.708 --> 00:16:46.083
and even nowadays, in Japan.

339
00:16:47.458 --> 00:16:51.208
FUKUOKA (JAPAN)
2019

340
00:16:51.708 --> 00:16:55.125
FOUR DAYS TO RETIREMENT

341
00:17:01.333 --> 00:17:02.708
So...

342
00:17:02.958 --> 00:17:04.208
-Same as usual?
-Yes.

343
00:17:04.375 --> 00:17:05.583
Like last time.

344
00:17:05.708 --> 00:17:06.750
-Great.
-Cool.

345
00:17:07.875 --> 00:17:08.958
It's so hot.

346
00:17:09.458 --> 00:17:10.458
-Yes.

347
00:17:10.875 --> 00:17:12.500
-I can't believe how humid it is.

348
00:17:12.583 --> 00:17:14.333
-(LAUGHS) Yes, I know!

349
00:17:16.500 --> 00:17:19.541
(FERNANDO)
"My teenage years didn't pass me by"

350
00:17:19.625 --> 00:17:21.625
without me doing
things I needed to do later;

351
00:17:21.875 --> 00:17:23.541
it was just my teenage years.

352
00:17:24.208 --> 00:17:26.708
I started when I had just turned 17

353
00:17:26.791 --> 00:17:28.833
and it was...

354
00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.625
I think I felt
it was the time to do things

355
00:17:32.708 --> 00:17:34.125
that a kid does at that age.

356
00:17:34.875 --> 00:17:35.875
You have to accept

357
00:17:36.041 --> 00:17:39.500
the criticism you get from that
and the opinion

358
00:17:39.583 --> 00:17:41.208
of people who don't know you,

359
00:17:41.708 --> 00:17:45.958
and you learn to control
only what you can control,

360
00:17:46.541 --> 00:17:49.041
which is the kind of person you are.

361
00:17:49.125 --> 00:17:51.166
What changes most in your hair.

362
00:17:51.958 --> 00:17:54.208
-I've always liked changing it.

363
00:17:54.333 --> 00:17:57.416
Not for any real reason, just because.

364
00:17:57.500 --> 00:18:00.416
-The mohican...
Did someone recommend it?

365
00:18:00.500 --> 00:18:03.125
Is there someone who tells you:
"Here, it's good"?

366
00:18:03.208 --> 00:18:04.791
Once I did say to him:

367
00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.000
"Fer, man,
what are you doing with that mop?"

368
00:18:08.333 --> 00:18:10.333
He said: "Don't you like it?"
I said: "No way!

369
00:18:10.583 --> 00:18:11.833
Get rid of it."

370
00:18:12.500 --> 00:18:13.916
Of course, it wasn't due to that,

371
00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.833
but four days later, he shaved it.

372
00:18:16.666 --> 00:18:18.458
If it wasn't going well,
he cut his hair.

373
00:18:18.541 --> 00:18:21.541
He had a scissor superstition,
that's true.

374
00:18:21.791 --> 00:18:24.541
A lot of habits
and obsessions that I have.

375
00:18:24.625 --> 00:18:25.875
He would change until...

376
00:18:27.125 --> 00:18:30.583
he scored a goal with the right boots,

377
00:18:31.291 --> 00:18:33.208
the right haircut, with whatever else,

378
00:18:33.291 --> 00:18:35.500
keeping things the same to stay in form.

379
00:18:38.583 --> 00:18:39.625
Nice.
-Yeah?

380
00:18:39.708 --> 00:18:41.541
-Beautiful. Thank you very much.
-Great.

381
00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.125
-As always.

382
00:18:43.208 --> 00:18:45.083
In a few months, Fernando became

383
00:18:45.166 --> 00:18:49.416
the commercial and media driving force
of Atlético Madrid.

384
00:18:49.625 --> 00:18:52.583
In a few months;
I mean, it was unbelievable.

385
00:18:52.833 --> 00:18:53.875
(Music)

386
00:18:54.041 --> 00:18:55.125
Have a cool "Pesi"!

387
00:18:55.208 --> 00:18:56.500
-Cut!, Pepsi.

388
00:18:56.708 --> 00:18:58.500
-Have a fresh "Pesi"!
-Cut!

389
00:18:58.875 --> 00:19:00.541
-Have a fresh "Pesi"!
-Cut!

390
00:19:00.708 --> 00:19:01.708
-"Pesi."
-Cut!

391
00:19:01.958 --> 00:19:03.375
-"Pesi."
-Pepsi!

392
00:19:03.458 --> 00:19:05.750
-In Fuenla, where I'm from,
we say it like that.

393
00:19:05.833 --> 00:19:08.458
-"We were quite pioneering in that,"

394
00:19:08.541 --> 00:19:12.000
in the construction of the image,

395
00:19:12.166 --> 00:19:14.291
in a footballing career like his.

396
00:19:14.375 --> 00:19:16.583
A message from Torres
for the Atleti fans...

397
00:19:17.416 --> 00:19:18.958
It was always Kiko.

398
00:19:19.041 --> 00:19:20.875
That year, we'll win it all.

399
00:19:22.916 --> 00:19:25.833
With the pen of solidarity,
you create smiles.

400
00:19:26.458 --> 00:19:29.250
-When sponsorship possibilities
started coming,

401
00:19:29.375 --> 00:19:31.791
Antonio Sanz always emphasised:

402
00:19:32.458 --> 00:19:33.708
"Values, values.

403
00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:36.333
Fernando has to be identified
with the values

404
00:19:36.416 --> 00:19:38.500
that he has always fought for."

405
00:19:39.166 --> 00:19:40.583
So we could accept them,

406
00:19:40.666 --> 00:19:43.958
but only when they were in line
with his values.

407
00:19:44.041 --> 00:19:45.916
-The camera and the people loved him,

408
00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:48.208
everybody loved him; I mean,

409
00:19:48.416 --> 00:19:50.833
so we only had to do the steering,

410
00:19:51.083 --> 00:19:53.375
the motor, clearly,

411
00:19:53.666 --> 00:19:55.500
was going like a Ferrari.

412
00:19:56.041 --> 00:19:58.041
The highest-paid Spanish player

413
00:19:58.125 --> 00:19:59.166
was at Atlético,

414
00:19:59.250 --> 00:20:02.708
"in the second division,
and he was 17. There's a moment

415
00:20:03.125 --> 00:20:04.833
when you have to choose."

416
00:20:05.041 --> 00:20:06.541
"Do I want to be like Beckham?"

417
00:20:08.083 --> 00:20:10.875
Fernando decided
that he wanted to be Fernando Torres.

418
00:20:11.208 --> 00:20:14.541
"He was very picky so he could dedicate

419
00:20:14.958 --> 00:20:17.000
the majority of his effort,

420
00:20:17.083 --> 00:20:19.375
and without slip ups, all of his energy,

421
00:20:19.458 --> 00:20:21.250
to football and not advertising."

422
00:20:21.333 --> 00:20:24.875
(Rock music)

423
00:20:26.416 --> 00:20:29.750
ITOSHIMA (JAPAN)
AUGUST 2019

424
00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:35.000
"My childhood

425
00:20:35.083 --> 00:20:36.916
and my career until I was professional

426
00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.666
has had moments where I learned

427
00:20:38.750 --> 00:20:41.541
from people close to me:
my family, my parents

428
00:20:41.958 --> 00:20:43.666
and my brother and sister constantly.

429
00:20:44.291 --> 00:20:46.291
And in summer...

430
00:20:46.750 --> 00:20:50.625
School ended
and when my dad could take holidays...

431
00:20:50.708 --> 00:20:53.416
we got in the car, and in those days,
nine hours to Galicia."

432
00:21:06.166 --> 00:21:07.750
"It had a big impact on my life

433
00:21:07.833 --> 00:21:09.666
because that's where I met my wife.

434
00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:14.000
When we met,

435
00:21:14.083 --> 00:21:15.791
I would have been 10 or 11.

436
00:21:16.500 --> 00:21:18.458
For me, my wife as a little girl,"

437
00:21:19.125 --> 00:21:20.958
two years younger.
I mean, at that age,

438
00:21:21.041 --> 00:21:22.125
"very young."

439
00:21:22.208 --> 00:21:24.875
-"It was our siblings
who were friends, not us."

440
00:21:25.708 --> 00:21:27.791
I was a tiny little girl

441
00:21:27.875 --> 00:21:30.291
and I was with my parents and cousins,

442
00:21:30.583 --> 00:21:32.708
"and he was part of the beach group."

443
00:21:34.500 --> 00:21:37.375
"In the summer, there were tournaments
and we were in the stands"

444
00:21:37.458 --> 00:21:40.083
of the pavilion,
waiting for the match to start,

445
00:21:40.166 --> 00:21:41.416
and she appeared.

446
00:21:41.500 --> 00:21:44.250
And when I looked back...

447
00:21:45.083 --> 00:21:48.666
I saw her... I had been with her
for two hours before on the beach,

448
00:21:48.875 --> 00:21:50.958
but it was like in a film,

449
00:21:51.041 --> 00:21:53.416
going down the stairs and saying:

450
00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:55.916
"Man!
I have to tell her something today."

451
00:21:56.916 --> 00:21:58.958
"The image I have in my head

452
00:21:59.666 --> 00:22:02.791
is exactly how it was,
and I'm sure she doesn't even know it."

453
00:22:06.791 --> 00:22:08.208
I don't go out much now.

454
00:22:08.625 --> 00:22:11.125
Since I've been in the first team,
I don't go out much.

455
00:22:11.208 --> 00:22:12.583
There's not enough time.

456
00:22:13.291 --> 00:22:16.083
-There is preseason, weekends...
-Any girlfriends?

457
00:22:16.166 --> 00:22:17.291
Plural or singular?

458
00:22:18.166 --> 00:22:19.166
That's it.

459
00:22:19.250 --> 00:22:21.458
"He made his debut in May,
this is in July.

460
00:22:22.250 --> 00:22:25.166
And I saw he was nervous. He said:
'You've got to do me a favour'.

461
00:22:25.250 --> 00:22:27.791
I said: 'What?'
He said: 'Take me to the airport'.

462
00:22:28.833 --> 00:22:30.500
I said: 'Where are you going?'

463
00:22:31.291 --> 00:22:33.666
He said: 'I'm going to Galicia'.
I said: 'What for?'"

464
00:22:33.916 --> 00:22:35.375
He just stayed quiet.

465
00:22:35.458 --> 00:22:38.500
He looked at me, he couldn't say it.

466
00:22:38.958 --> 00:22:40.125
"Until he says:

467
00:22:40.500 --> 00:22:42.625
'Look, I'm going to ask Olalla out.'

468
00:22:42.875 --> 00:22:44.458
I said: 'That's news!'"

469
00:22:44.541 --> 00:22:47.541
"We have to celebrate!"
He said: "When she says yes."

470
00:22:48.375 --> 00:22:50.791
"When he came back, I said:
'So, how did it go?'

471
00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:52.625
And his smile answered for him."

472
00:22:58.791 --> 00:23:01.291
(JOURNALIST)
"Atlético will spend a second season

473
00:23:01.375 --> 00:23:03.291
in the second division
if it ends like this.

474
00:23:03.708 --> 00:23:07.000
It's over. Getafe, nil;
Atlético Madrid, one."

475
00:23:07.750 --> 00:23:08.750
We didn't go up.

476
00:23:10.041 --> 00:23:14.458
So, there was a strange silence...
in the stadium.

477
00:23:21.916 --> 00:23:24.625
"I've rarely seen him cry,
but that night

478
00:23:25.083 --> 00:23:26.625
because they didn't get promoted."

479
00:23:26.708 --> 00:23:28.250
It was a huge responsibility

480
00:23:28.333 --> 00:23:30.583
for how young he was.
He was so young.

481
00:23:31.375 --> 00:23:34.000
(Fans chanting)

482
00:23:34.750 --> 00:23:36.625
(CHILD) Stay at Atleti!

483
00:23:36.708 --> 00:23:39.041
-Don't go, stay with us!

484
00:23:39.208 --> 00:23:40.208
-No!

485
00:23:41.083 --> 00:23:44.500
(FERNANDO) "I think those years
were when the Atlético spirit,

486
00:23:44.875 --> 00:23:48.333
which is hard to describe,
was at its strongest."

487
00:23:49.291 --> 00:23:51.000
Dad...
-Yes, son.

488
00:23:51.083 --> 00:23:52.833
-Why do we support Atleti?

489
00:23:53.916 --> 00:23:56.333
(FERNANDO)
"For me, being an Atlético fan is...

490
00:23:57.291 --> 00:23:59.208
insisting, fighting,

491
00:23:59.291 --> 00:24:01.625
getting up every time you fall,

492
00:24:01.791 --> 00:24:03.791
and we chose our team

493
00:24:04.708 --> 00:24:05.958
because of what we're like,

494
00:24:06.125 --> 00:24:08.791
because this football club represents
those values.

495
00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:10.458
It's a way of dealing with life,

496
00:24:10.625 --> 00:24:13.333
through effort, sacrifice
and by getting up when we fall.

497
00:24:14.166 --> 00:24:17.125
We don't go to the stadium
when we win titles, we always go.

498
00:24:17.458 --> 00:24:19.833
If we have to support the team
in the second division,

499
00:24:20.041 --> 00:24:22.833
we'll go. So our goal is to be
in the first division?

500
00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.166
Well, we have to go through this tunnel.

501
00:24:26.750 --> 00:24:29.041
If we're together,
we'll get through it quicker."

502
00:24:42.791 --> 00:24:45.791
FUKUOKA (JAPAN)

503
00:24:46.958 --> 00:24:49.916
THREE DAYS TO RETIREMENT

504
00:25:04.625 --> 00:25:06.666
(Sound of a lift)

505
00:25:08.666 --> 00:25:11.791
"I think you can evolve,
but you have to keep your essence.

506
00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:13.958
If we don't, we'll reach a point

507
00:25:14.041 --> 00:25:17.000
where the fans will be supporting

508
00:25:17.083 --> 00:25:19.041
a team that doesn't represent them.

509
00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:23.708
Where you want to go

510
00:25:23.791 --> 00:25:25.625
is not as important
as where you're from.

511
00:25:26.125 --> 00:25:27.750
What you want to achieve must be

512
00:25:27.833 --> 00:25:30.416
through what has brought you here,

513
00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:31.625
and that's roots."

514
00:25:50.708 --> 00:25:53.250
The actual club in Japan was offering me

515
00:25:53.791 --> 00:25:56.458
one of the reasons
I wanted to leave Europe,

516
00:25:56.541 --> 00:25:58.458
that is enjoying being with my family.

517
00:26:00.291 --> 00:26:02.250
Peace, privacy...

518
00:26:02.333 --> 00:26:04.250
To show my children a culture

519
00:26:04.333 --> 00:26:06.791
which is crucial
and will be very important later.

520
00:26:07.708 --> 00:26:10.333
But on a footballing level,
I soon realised

521
00:26:10.416 --> 00:26:12.416
"that I wasn't going to be there
for too long,

522
00:26:12.708 --> 00:26:16.000
because here they see football
as entertainment,

523
00:26:16.083 --> 00:26:18.250
not as a competition.

524
00:26:19.083 --> 00:26:21.166
It will take years
for them to understand

525
00:26:21.458 --> 00:26:24.625
that in football,
the best are the ones who compete.

526
00:26:25.333 --> 00:26:26.375
It's that simple."

527
00:26:54.208 --> 00:26:56.875
"After the season we weren't promoted,

528
00:26:56.958 --> 00:26:59.625
they hired Luis Aragonés
and I saw what he was."

529
00:27:00.250 --> 00:27:01.250
Top class.

530
00:27:01.791 --> 00:27:03.333
Still in the second division.

531
00:27:03.416 --> 00:27:04.458
This here!

532
00:27:04.583 --> 00:27:06.791
Give it to the other side and goal!

533
00:27:07.666 --> 00:27:09.083
Don't be drawn out!

534
00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:10.791
From that position inwards!

535
00:27:11.125 --> 00:27:12.875
-Inwards, inwards, Pepe!

536
00:27:13.125 --> 00:27:15.375
-Now, at the level,
at the level of the ball!

537
00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:17.791
Now support, we can go for goal!

538
00:27:17.875 --> 00:27:20.500
Support the cross!
-(SHOUTS)

539
00:27:21.583 --> 00:27:24.000
(FERNANDO)
"It was a year of suffering for me

540
00:27:24.333 --> 00:27:26.750
and a real test.

541
00:27:27.333 --> 00:27:31.333
You want to play football with the best?
This is football.

542
00:27:31.458 --> 00:27:34.583
The Atlético we want won't wait for you.
You're with us or you're not."

543
00:27:34.708 --> 00:27:38.250
Luis made him work
really hard individually.

544
00:27:38.750 --> 00:27:41.625
And that's the formula to progression.

545
00:27:41.750 --> 00:27:43.541
"The Niño got nothing for free.

546
00:27:43.666 --> 00:27:46.125
He earned it all through effort.

547
00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:49.500
Maybe Aragonés' personality
would have shocked him,

548
00:27:49.625 --> 00:27:52.000
because he was demanding, obviously."

549
00:27:52.125 --> 00:27:54.916
Step by step, breaking through!
Don't move!

550
00:27:55.041 --> 00:27:56.958
You have to push there!
Come on, man!

551
00:27:57.083 --> 00:28:00.000
(Crowd chants)

552
00:28:00.916 --> 00:28:02.958
"I think he held me in high regard,

553
00:28:03.375 --> 00:28:04.500
for some reason.

554
00:28:04.833 --> 00:28:06.583
He tried to prepare me...

555
00:28:07.208 --> 00:28:08.208
for what was coming.

556
00:28:09.416 --> 00:28:10.541
Luis' phrases...

557
00:28:11.041 --> 00:28:12.250
from day to day?

558
00:28:12.833 --> 00:28:14.833
'Get angry with yourself
if you don't play',

559
00:28:14.958 --> 00:28:16.708
'You know nothing about anything...'

560
00:28:17.750 --> 00:28:19.500
'You'll soon get what I mean',

561
00:28:19.750 --> 00:28:22.708
'Don't read the press,
don't pay attention to what they say,

562
00:28:22.791 --> 00:28:24.208
they don't know anything',"

563
00:28:24.375 --> 00:28:27.708
"They're creating a pedestal
so when you're on top of the world,

564
00:28:28.333 --> 00:28:30.166
they can smack you down and...

565
00:28:30.375 --> 00:28:32.333
falling from so high will hurt

566
00:28:32.416 --> 00:28:33.750
and you won't get back up",

567
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:35.291
"Pay attention to me"...

568
00:28:35.375 --> 00:28:39.291
Football has no past or future.

569
00:28:39.625 --> 00:28:41.125
It is present and it's

570
00:28:41.291 --> 00:28:44.000
win, win, and win,
and win, and win again,

571
00:28:44.125 --> 00:28:46.166
and win, and win, and win,
and win again,

572
00:28:46.375 --> 00:28:47.625
and win, and win, and win.

573
00:28:47.750 --> 00:28:49.708
Want me to go on for half an hour?
That's it!

574
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:55.250
I think he was one of the first coaches

575
00:28:55.958 --> 00:28:59.750
"that prepared me to face

576
00:28:59.833 --> 00:29:01.500
the media.

577
00:29:01.958 --> 00:29:03.916
With time, I understood what he said."

578
00:29:04.958 --> 00:29:06.541
(Soft music)

579
00:29:06.666 --> 00:29:07.791
"He's a coach

580
00:29:07.916 --> 00:29:10.000
you have to admire what he was.

581
00:29:10.625 --> 00:29:13.000
I really enjoyed training with him

582
00:29:13.125 --> 00:29:15.666
and that year was one
of a lot of discipline and respect."

583
00:29:15.958 --> 00:29:19.875
-Do you aim to stay at Atlético Madrid
in the first division?

584
00:29:20.458 --> 00:29:22.291
-Yes, that's the aim of this season:

585
00:29:22.375 --> 00:29:24.833
win promotion
and play in the first division

586
00:29:24.958 --> 00:29:25.958
next season.

587
00:29:26.375 --> 00:29:29.166
In life,
almost everything is complicated.

588
00:29:30.541 --> 00:29:32.291
But you can achieve almost anything.

589
00:29:32.958 --> 00:29:37.333
(Crowd chanting)

590
00:29:37.916 --> 00:29:42.708
ATLÉTICO PLAY FOR PROMOTION
AFTER TWO SEASONS IN THE SECOND DIVISION

591
00:29:43.208 --> 00:29:45.708
(COMMENTATOR) "He retraces his steps.
Correa drives on.

592
00:29:46.041 --> 00:29:47.583
Tries to link up with Diego Alonso.

593
00:29:47.708 --> 00:29:49.041
Look out, Correa fights on.

594
00:29:49.166 --> 00:29:51.916
Look out Uruguayans,
Correa shoots... Goal!

595
00:29:52.041 --> 00:29:53.416
Goal...
-Now!

596
00:29:53.541 --> 00:29:55.041
-for Atlético Madrid!

597
00:29:55.166 --> 00:29:56.791
Correa scores!

598
00:29:56.916 --> 00:29:58.000
-It's taken

599
00:29:58.541 --> 00:30:01.791
80 games and 24 hours to be able to say

600
00:30:02.041 --> 00:30:04.875
that the red and whites are returning
to the first division."

601
00:30:05.291 --> 00:30:08.583
This is Atleti, soak up that spirit!

602
00:30:08.708 --> 00:30:11.333
♪ Goodbye division two,

603
00:30:11.458 --> 00:30:13.375
♪ goodbye! Goodbye! ♪

604
00:30:17.333 --> 00:30:19.791
(Cheering)

605
00:30:21.250 --> 00:30:23.125
(FERNANDO) "Promotion was the thing

606
00:30:23.250 --> 00:30:25.833
that let us forget everything before.

607
00:30:25.958 --> 00:30:28.208
I think that's when I felt
like a fan again.

608
00:30:29.750 --> 00:30:30.958
With goals to achieve

609
00:30:31.083 --> 00:30:32.875
and a lot of risks to take on,

610
00:30:32.958 --> 00:30:34.750
but with real excitement."

611
00:30:34.916 --> 00:30:37.000
It was turning into
a responsibility again.

612
00:30:37.791 --> 00:30:39.833
(COMMENTATOR)
"Barcelona-Atlético Madrid,

613
00:30:39.958 --> 00:30:43.208
a classic match of the first division.
Atlético Madrid has come back

614
00:30:43.375 --> 00:30:47.375
from two years in hell, the backwaters
of the second division A.

615
00:30:47.708 --> 00:30:49.583
And there's no better place to do it..."

616
00:30:49.708 --> 00:30:53.541
-"Making my debut in the Camp Nou
against Barcelona made me see"

617
00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:57.416
the difficulty and the beauty

618
00:30:57.541 --> 00:31:00.458
"of playing against the best players

619
00:31:00.583 --> 00:31:01.791
in the best stadiums

620
00:31:01.875 --> 00:31:03.791
every weekend.
It was something else."

621
00:31:03.916 --> 00:31:05.541
(Chants)

622
00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:08.666
(CROWD) Goal!

623
00:31:09.041 --> 00:31:12.125
"There is a two-year period of time,

624
00:31:12.291 --> 00:31:13.625
from 17 to 19,

625
00:31:13.916 --> 00:31:16.833
I went from being
just one of the first team

626
00:31:17.750 --> 00:31:19.333
to being one of the leaders

627
00:31:19.541 --> 00:31:22.166
and I no longer had looks from others

628
00:31:22.916 --> 00:31:24.541
as if I was a kid, but...

629
00:31:25.708 --> 00:31:27.208
You have to pull the team along.

630
00:31:29.791 --> 00:31:32.375
In that period of years

631
00:31:32.791 --> 00:31:35.375
the offers started coming in.
You don't think about it.

632
00:31:38.541 --> 00:31:40.416
-We got a lot of calls

633
00:31:40.541 --> 00:31:42.666
to sign Fernando Torres.

634
00:31:42.791 --> 00:31:45.666
From Tottenham, Milan,
Inter, Manchester United..."

635
00:31:45.791 --> 00:31:48.708
and he always stayed firm.
He didn't want to hear the offers.

636
00:31:48.791 --> 00:31:51.666
The biggest brand...

637
00:31:51.750 --> 00:31:53.666
that Fernando Torres
and his team rejected

638
00:31:53.750 --> 00:31:55.708
"is Real Madrid,

639
00:31:55.791 --> 00:31:57.791
who tried to sign him
on three occasions."

640
00:31:59.458 --> 00:32:01.416
-"I've never spoken to Real Madrid.

641
00:32:03.041 --> 00:32:04.125
Ever."

642
00:32:05.791 --> 00:32:07.208
It's a question of principle.

643
00:32:09.041 --> 00:32:11.750
"I think it would be a betrayal

644
00:32:11.833 --> 00:32:14.666
of a way of seeing things
and of understanding football."

645
00:32:16.625 --> 00:32:19.875
FUKUOKA (JAPAN)

646
00:32:21.166 --> 00:32:24.416
THREE DAYS TO RETIREMENT

647
00:32:26.958 --> 00:32:28.458
"I think I never wanted

648
00:32:29.041 --> 00:32:31.333
to sit by myself
and analyse the situation

649
00:32:31.708 --> 00:32:33.166
because I knew, if I did it,

650
00:32:33.625 --> 00:32:35.291
what the response would be.

651
00:32:36.458 --> 00:32:39.833
I had to sacrifice my dreams
for the good of the club.

652
00:32:40.416 --> 00:32:42.916
It had nothing to do
with a better contract

653
00:32:43.458 --> 00:32:44.666
or a better team.

654
00:32:45.250 --> 00:32:47.916
I had had offers in previous years."

655
00:32:49.625 --> 00:32:50.833
-"He can look to Eto'o.

656
00:32:51.083 --> 00:32:53.666
Eto'o in the area, Eto'o gives it back,
Messi...

657
00:32:53.750 --> 00:32:57.083
Amazing goal by Barcelona!
-No! What a goal!

658
00:32:57.375 --> 00:33:00.041
-The ball goes out.
Oh, no, Pichu has made a great mistake!

659
00:33:00.541 --> 00:33:01.541
Pichu is off his line.

660
00:33:01.625 --> 00:33:04.541
A mistake by Pichu,
Samuel Eto'o scores!

661
00:33:05.416 --> 00:33:06.541
Gives the ball to Eto'o.

662
00:33:06.708 --> 00:33:08.333
Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho!

663
00:33:08.416 --> 00:33:09.875
A great goal by Barcelona!
-Wow!

664
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.208
Beautifully worked!
-A great goal by Barcelona!

665
00:33:12.333 --> 00:33:16.916
Messi, Pichu...!
Goal for Barcelona!

666
00:33:17.250 --> 00:33:19.208
They were gifted the goal... Iniesta...

667
00:33:19.750 --> 00:33:22.291
Iniesta... Number six!

668
00:33:22.416 --> 00:33:24.333
Gifted by Eto'o...

669
00:33:24.458 --> 00:33:27.291
-Barcelona are relishing
in this victory...

670
00:33:27.416 --> 00:33:29.666
in a, by the way... stadium..."

671
00:33:29.875 --> 00:33:31.708
-"But that wasn't the day I decided...

672
00:33:32.750 --> 00:33:35.750
I was going to leave.
It was the day I confirmed

673
00:33:36.416 --> 00:33:39.458
that all the things I knew instinctively
but didn't want to accept

674
00:33:39.541 --> 00:33:40.625
were real."

675
00:33:43.791 --> 00:33:45.458
It starts generating a feeling

676
00:33:46.125 --> 00:33:47.250
day to day

677
00:33:48.083 --> 00:33:50.041
of the fans with me

678
00:33:50.458 --> 00:33:53.541
that started to worry me long before
I decided to leave,

679
00:33:54.666 --> 00:33:56.666
"that even the Atlético players told me:

680
00:33:57.541 --> 00:33:59.916
'Get out of here,
they don't deserve you!'

681
00:34:01.333 --> 00:34:02.916
There's a problem beginning.

682
00:34:04.041 --> 00:34:06.000
It wasn't doing the club any good.

683
00:34:07.458 --> 00:34:10.208
And the only ones
who understood it were the fans

684
00:34:10.750 --> 00:34:12.833
who also felt liberated.

685
00:34:12.958 --> 00:34:14.375
Now they didn't suffer for me,

686
00:34:14.458 --> 00:34:17.500
now they could suffer for Atleti again.
And I left,

687
00:34:17.583 --> 00:34:20.250
but they kept supporting me."

688
00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.500
Then there is the football part
of thinking:

689
00:34:25.166 --> 00:34:26.958
"Maybe it's good for me too.

690
00:34:27.500 --> 00:34:28.791
How far can I go?

691
00:34:29.458 --> 00:34:32.833
But will it be worth it
going somewhere else?"

692
00:34:33.208 --> 00:34:36.166
And that was the big question
I asked myself for a long time.

693
00:34:36.250 --> 00:34:39.708
Nobody liked that decision,
of course the fans,

694
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:41.541
possibly even Fernando didn't,

695
00:34:41.625 --> 00:34:44.916
because he would have loved spending
his whole life here, but he understood

696
00:34:45.041 --> 00:34:48.375
that at the time, the club needed more
from many

697
00:34:48.458 --> 00:34:52.416
"who could bring more
to make the team more competitive

698
00:34:52.666 --> 00:34:55.333
rather than placing
all the responsibility on one person.

699
00:34:56.041 --> 00:34:58.083
-And ultimately, time has shown

700
00:34:58.333 --> 00:35:00.625
that they were both right:
that Fernando grew"

701
00:35:01.166 --> 00:35:04.791
to maybe unexpected limits

702
00:35:04.875 --> 00:35:07.541
and Atlético are where they are,

703
00:35:07.833 --> 00:35:10.708
probably because of the first cog
that was selling Fernando.

704
00:35:11.708 --> 00:35:14.541
Next Tuesday,
after the Administration Council...

705
00:35:14.875 --> 00:35:16.291
-"Atlético needed,"

706
00:35:16.375 --> 00:35:19.625
to live and to survive,
the cash from Fernando.

707
00:35:20.125 --> 00:35:22.458
"That money was very, very important."

708
00:35:23.500 --> 00:35:24.708
-"He knew he would return.

709
00:35:25.666 --> 00:35:28.416
I'm sure, whether you are 16, 17, 18..."

710
00:35:28.666 --> 00:35:31.833
Why? Because he's part of the club,
the club is in his genes.

711
00:35:31.916 --> 00:35:34.541
He said it in a great quote. He said:

712
00:35:35.458 --> 00:35:36.666
"Everyone is an Atleti fan,

713
00:35:36.833 --> 00:35:38.041
they just don't know it."

714
00:35:38.416 --> 00:35:40.208
I hope this is a "see you soon."

715
00:35:40.291 --> 00:35:43.208
I'll always have a return in my mind.
I hope to return one day,

716
00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:45.583
when the club
is at the level it deserves

717
00:35:45.750 --> 00:35:47.750
and those who come manage to do that.

718
00:35:50.875 --> 00:35:54.000
"When I see myself in that car,
I realise that it's true,

719
00:35:54.208 --> 00:35:55.625
that there is no way back.

720
00:35:57.041 --> 00:36:00.333
In a few hours
you go through a deep sadness,

721
00:36:00.416 --> 00:36:01.583
of crying,

722
00:36:02.208 --> 00:36:04.625
to the feeling
of wanting to start something."

723
00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:19.541
(Rock music)

724
00:36:21.416 --> 00:36:22.458
Here!

725
00:36:23.916 --> 00:36:26.208
EL NIÑO'S TRANSFER TO LIVERPOOL,
CLOSER THAN EVER.

726
00:36:26.291 --> 00:36:28.416
TORRES, SUN-KISSED REDHEAD

727
00:36:28.583 --> 00:36:32.500
LIVERPOOL SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES
RECORD TRANSFER FOR TORRES

728
00:36:32.583 --> 00:36:36.291
TORRES,
THE MOST EXPENSIVE SPANIARD IN THE WORLD

729
00:36:36.375 --> 00:36:40.208
BENÍTEZ, DELIGHTED
WITH THE SIGNING OF FERNANDO TORRES

730
00:36:40.291 --> 00:36:44.250
"I WANT TO BE A WORKING-CLASS HERO"

731
00:36:44.375 --> 00:36:47.208
It's one of the best clubs in Europe,
a winning club.

732
00:36:48.291 --> 00:36:50.708
Their history
and present demonstrates that,

733
00:36:51.291 --> 00:36:53.250
and I couldn't let
this chance escape me.

734
00:36:58.375 --> 00:37:00.958
"When I arrived in Liverpool,
I had nothing to lose.

735
00:37:01.291 --> 00:37:02.583
I had no fear,

736
00:37:02.666 --> 00:37:04.000
I was ready for anything.

737
00:37:04.458 --> 00:37:06.208
When I asked to be number nine,

738
00:37:06.375 --> 00:37:10.208
they first asked me if I knew
what the nine is at Liverpool.

739
00:37:10.625 --> 00:37:12.083
Here's Rush.

740
00:37:12.291 --> 00:37:13.333
He's scored!

741
00:37:13.666 --> 00:37:16.458
Liverpool threaten...
Robbie Fowler! They've scored again!"

742
00:37:16.541 --> 00:37:17.791
"And I realised,"

743
00:37:17.875 --> 00:37:20.125
looking at the history of the club,
what the nine is

744
00:37:20.208 --> 00:37:22.166
and the responsibility
that goes with it.

745
00:37:22.375 --> 00:37:27.375
(Song: "You'll never walk alone")

746
00:37:28.708 --> 00:37:30.500
"It was a legendary club,

747
00:37:30.583 --> 00:37:34.000
a club that hid a story

748
00:37:34.083 --> 00:37:35.458
in every sign and detail.

749
00:37:41.625 --> 00:37:44.250
Why are the hangers so high
in the dressing room?

750
00:37:44.333 --> 00:37:45.750
It's the legend of saying:

751
00:37:45.833 --> 00:37:47.666
'It makes the players look bigger'.

752
00:37:48.083 --> 00:37:50.416
Traditions are kept.
And I love that.

753
00:37:54.208 --> 00:37:55.458
So he arrives at Anfield.

754
00:37:56.250 --> 00:37:58.666
When you get to the stadium,

755
00:37:59.416 --> 00:38:01.041
don't forget to touch the poster."

756
00:38:07.791 --> 00:38:12.083
(Song: "You'll never walk alone")

757
00:38:21.375 --> 00:38:24.041
When we were in the tunnel,
before going out,

758
00:38:24.333 --> 00:38:26.625
"You'll never walk alone"
begins to play.

759
00:38:27.583 --> 00:38:29.208
And it's a beautiful sound.

760
00:38:29.416 --> 00:38:34.125
(Song: "You'll never walk alone")

761
00:38:45.833 --> 00:38:50.833
(Crowd singing
"You'll never walk alone")

762
00:38:55.625 --> 00:39:00.291
(SINGING "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE")

763
00:39:04.041 --> 00:39:09.041
"(Crowd singing
'You'll never walk alone')"

764
00:39:13.666 --> 00:39:16.625
"At that moment, Pepe came up
and said: 'This is Anfield'."

765
00:39:16.708 --> 00:39:19.833
"I want you to enjoy it,
have a good time and just be you.

766
00:39:21.041 --> 00:39:22.208
It's time to have fun,

767
00:39:22.291 --> 00:39:23.291
it's your turn."

768
00:39:23.750 --> 00:39:25.666
He couldn't have started better.

769
00:39:25.750 --> 00:39:27.375
And I heard a different sound,

770
00:39:27.458 --> 00:39:29.250
different to Spanish stadiums...

771
00:39:30.958 --> 00:39:34.833
Totally different. New feelings,
but impressive.

772
00:39:35.458 --> 00:39:38.458
They make you feel
like something will happen.

773
00:39:39.083 --> 00:39:40.958
19 AUGUST 2007

774
00:39:41.083 --> 00:39:42.958
"Liverpool break...
Torres".

775
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.750
That's how the game went

776
00:39:45.833 --> 00:39:49.375
until minute 15,
which was when I scored my first goal

777
00:39:49.458 --> 00:39:50.958
in that goal.

778
00:39:51.375 --> 00:39:53.250
I remember the day very clearly.

779
00:39:53.333 --> 00:39:56.541
It was a huge game
and everyone was waiting to see...

780
00:39:56.916 --> 00:40:00.166
"Is Fernando going to be good enough
for Liverpool?" Blah-blah-blah...

781
00:40:00.583 --> 00:40:03.375
But I think immediately
in that first game against Chelsea,

782
00:40:03.458 --> 00:40:07.291
when he hit the ground running,
people realised what a talent he was.

783
00:40:08.916 --> 00:40:11.416
(GERRARD) "The game started
and I played a simple pass."

784
00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:13.125
It wasn't fantastic, just normal.

785
00:40:13.208 --> 00:40:17.291
And I didn't expect him
to place the ball so well.

786
00:40:17.375 --> 00:40:19.875
"That's when I saw
what playing with Gerrard is like."

787
00:40:21.875 --> 00:40:23.500
-"It was Fernando's classic dribble,

788
00:40:23.583 --> 00:40:25.708
he goes inside then outside..."

789
00:40:27.208 --> 00:40:28.583
I tried to close the space

790
00:40:28.708 --> 00:40:30.333
"but he took the shot quite early."

791
00:40:30.416 --> 00:40:31.708
And he put it across Cech

792
00:40:31.833 --> 00:40:32.875
"with his inner foot."

793
00:40:33.958 --> 00:40:35.375
(COMMENTATOR) "And scores!"

794
00:40:35.916 --> 00:40:39.125
"His first Liverpool goal
on his Anfield debut...

795
00:40:41.166 --> 00:40:43.916
in superb style!
Liverpool, one, Chelsea nil."

796
00:40:44.125 --> 00:40:45.958
My first reaction is to go to the corner

797
00:40:46.458 --> 00:40:49.583
to celebrate with my fans,
because in Spain, the away fans

798
00:40:49.666 --> 00:40:51.041
are high and far away.

799
00:40:51.125 --> 00:40:53.041
And when I go there,

800
00:40:53.125 --> 00:40:54.166
I see the Chelsea fans.

801
00:40:54.750 --> 00:40:56.875
I said: "Maybe let's go somewhere else."

802
00:40:57.041 --> 00:40:59.250
"That's when you start to realise

803
00:40:59.416 --> 00:41:01.041
that everything is different.

804
00:41:01.541 --> 00:41:03.541
I remember saying to Pepe at the time:"

805
00:41:03.625 --> 00:41:06.958
"I think I'm going to score
in every game on this pitch."

806
00:41:07.666 --> 00:41:09.125
It's perfect.

807
00:41:09.375 --> 00:41:13.458
It was an indicator
of what Fernando could be: the speed,

808
00:41:13.541 --> 00:41:16.583
"that explosivity.
-The Liverpool fans fell in love."

809
00:41:16.666 --> 00:41:19.083
He's one of us.
He was made for Liverpool.

810
00:41:19.166 --> 00:41:20.250
And from then...

811
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.208
he just got better.

812
00:41:37.166 --> 00:41:40.083
"To understand the success
of Fernando Torres at Liverpool,

813
00:41:40.208 --> 00:41:42.541
you've got to understand
Liverpool and its roots,"

814
00:41:42.666 --> 00:41:46.041
its connection with the community.
It's not a football club, it's a family.

815
00:41:52.750 --> 00:41:55.916
"It's not simply a building, Anfield;
it is a church,

816
00:41:56.041 --> 00:41:58.250
it is a shrine.
When there are problems in the city

817
00:41:58.375 --> 00:42:01.291
let alone the club,
everyone congregates there,

818
00:42:01.416 --> 00:42:04.416
and I get the same impression
with Atlético Madrid.

819
00:42:04.583 --> 00:42:07.458
I think maybe
one of the reasons he settled

820
00:42:07.625 --> 00:42:09.750
is because he was going
from one home to another.

821
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:12.708
-I played for Liverpool for..."

822
00:42:13.250 --> 00:42:15.833
17 years as a professional

823
00:42:16.750 --> 00:42:19.166
but Fernando made me feel different.

824
00:42:19.375 --> 00:42:20.875
Every time I go onto the pitch,

825
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.833
I felt as if I could assist a goal
or score a goal,

826
00:42:25.250 --> 00:42:28.000
"and I always felt
like the team was going to win

827
00:42:28.083 --> 00:42:30.416
because he could win
football matches alone."

828
00:42:30.958 --> 00:42:34.166
My best years
were when Fernando arrived.

829
00:42:34.291 --> 00:42:36.291
It was my favourite partnership.

830
00:42:36.958 --> 00:42:39.041
-"With Gerrard I was spoiled,

831
00:42:39.166 --> 00:42:42.416
I could play with one
of the best players in the world"

832
00:42:42.875 --> 00:42:44.375
at the peak of his career.

833
00:42:44.750 --> 00:42:47.208
All the conditions came together

834
00:42:47.791 --> 00:42:48.791
for me to shine.

835
00:42:49.125 --> 00:42:52.083
Fernando didn't fear anyone
in a Liverpool shirt.

836
00:42:52.208 --> 00:42:53.666
I think he felt invincible.

837
00:42:53.791 --> 00:42:55.875
He's big, he's powerful,

838
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.416
he's good-looking. He's quick,
he's skilful. He has everything.

839
00:43:00.583 --> 00:43:04.041
(COMMENTATOR) "A beautiful ball
for Torres and an absolutely...

840
00:43:04.708 --> 00:43:06.041
Oh, fantastic!

841
00:43:06.125 --> 00:43:07.166
Fernando Torres!

842
00:43:07.625 --> 00:43:10.416
-Ferdinand has to stay strong
and can't... and Torres scores!

843
00:43:10.583 --> 00:43:12.750
Torres, more trouble for Newcastle...

844
00:43:13.416 --> 00:43:15.958
-Another goal!
-Fernando Torres strikes for Liverpool!

845
00:43:16.666 --> 00:43:18.291
-Goal!
-I'll make a note of that.

846
00:43:19.166 --> 00:43:21.833
He decided not to head it
and Torres could punish

847
00:43:22.250 --> 00:43:23.458
that error of judgement.

848
00:43:23.708 --> 00:43:27.250
And has done. It's one-one.

849
00:43:27.333 --> 00:43:29.041
-I had all the conditions

850
00:43:29.125 --> 00:43:31.083
I needed to know that the connection

851
00:43:31.166 --> 00:43:34.791
between player and fan,
that I've always needed, was there."

852
00:43:35.916 --> 00:43:38.833
They made me feel
like I'd almost been born there.

853
00:43:39.916 --> 00:43:43.458
♪ (IN SPANISH) His band shows he is red,
# Torres, Torres.

854
00:43:43.541 --> 00:43:46.875
♪ "You'll never walk alone",
# says Torres, Torres.

855
00:43:47.708 --> 00:43:49.583
♪ We bought the guy in Spain.

856
00:43:49.666 --> 00:43:51.125
♪ On the ball, he'll score again

857
00:43:51.375 --> 00:43:53.291
♪ Fernando Torres... ♪

858
00:43:53.458 --> 00:43:57.625
(CROWD CHANTING TORRES' SONG)

859
00:44:04.125 --> 00:44:07.083
♪ "Fernando Torres,
# Liverpool's number nine.

860
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.750
♪ He gets the ball
# he scores again." ♪

861
00:44:11.125 --> 00:44:12.500
"My first year at Liverpool...

862
00:44:12.625 --> 00:44:14.208
I couldn't have written it better.

863
00:44:14.458 --> 00:44:16.916
The highest-scoring new signing

864
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:19.750
in the history of the Premier League
tied with Van Nistelrooy,

865
00:44:19.833 --> 00:44:22.666
the first Liverpool player to get more
than 20 goals in a season

866
00:44:22.750 --> 00:44:24.333
since Michael Owen...

867
00:44:24.625 --> 00:44:26.750
It is going well, but I need more.

868
00:44:26.833 --> 00:44:28.250
I start getting very ambitious."

869
00:44:29.666 --> 00:44:32.250
LIVERPOOL'S TOP-SCORING
DEBUT SEASON IN THE 21ST CENTURY

870
00:44:32.333 --> 00:44:35.291
FASTEST LIVERPOOL PLAYER
TO REACH 50 GOALS

871
00:44:35.375 --> 00:44:39.625
FIRST PLAYER IN LIVERPOOL HISTORY
TO SCORE IN 8 CONSECUTIVE GAMES

872
00:44:39.750 --> 00:44:42.750
BEST SCORING RATE
FOR A FIRST SEASON AT LIVERPOOL...

873
00:44:42.875 --> 00:44:45.416
FIRST PLAYER OVER 30 GOALS
SINCE FOWLER, 1995-1996

874
00:44:45.750 --> 00:44:46.833
"And I'm missing titles

875
00:44:46.916 --> 00:44:49.541
that slipped between our fingers,

876
00:44:49.625 --> 00:44:51.166
especially the Champions League."

877
00:44:51.250 --> 00:44:52.458
But the best is yet to come.

878
00:44:54.041 --> 00:44:56.250
(ARAGONÉS)
Nobody remembers the runners-up.

879
00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.875
We've come to win the Euros

880
00:44:58.958 --> 00:45:01.291
and we'll go into it
with a positive attitude.

881
00:45:01.583 --> 00:45:03.000
We'll have a party if we win

882
00:45:03.208 --> 00:45:05.250
and, as we're the best, we will win.

883
00:45:05.500 --> 00:45:08.208
"'You're the runner-up of...'
Bah! Understood?"

884
00:45:08.458 --> 00:45:10.750
But we have much more,
we can do much more!

885
00:45:11.208 --> 00:45:14.041
Torres... can do more, I go more!

886
00:45:14.250 --> 00:45:15.833
He's physically good!

887
00:45:16.041 --> 00:45:17.166
(ALL) Come on!

888
00:45:17.291 --> 00:45:18.416
-Come on, come on!
-Yeah!

889
00:45:18.500 --> 00:45:19.833
One, two and three!

890
00:45:19.916 --> 00:45:21.083
Win, win and win!

891
00:45:21.416 --> 00:45:23.500
Last 15 minutes of the first half.

892
00:45:23.791 --> 00:45:25.041
FINAL OF THE EUROS...

893
00:45:25.791 --> 00:45:26.791
Marchena...

894
00:45:27.208 --> 00:45:28.958
SPAIN-GERMANY

895
00:45:29.333 --> 00:45:31.666
"...between the lines,
where Xavi will receive it...

896
00:45:31.750 --> 00:45:32.958
There.
-He can do damage

897
00:45:33.041 --> 00:45:35.041
Torres... Tries to go...

898
00:45:45.291 --> 00:45:47.833
Goal...

899
00:45:48.333 --> 00:45:51.541
by Niño Torres, who has just put...

900
00:45:51.833 --> 00:45:53.000
Spain ahead

901
00:45:53.083 --> 00:45:55.416
in the final of the Euros!

902
00:45:56.250 --> 00:45:57.458
With speed,

903
00:45:57.541 --> 00:45:59.750
It had to be with speed!

904
00:46:01.375 --> 00:46:02.958
When he scored that goal,"

905
00:46:03.250 --> 00:46:06.291
I couldn't...
No, it's indescribable.

906
00:46:08.875 --> 00:46:11.416
"I remember saying
to my son the day before:

907
00:46:11.583 --> 00:46:13.500
'You haven't dedicated
any goals to Hugo.'

908
00:46:13.583 --> 00:46:15.416
We only have one grandson, Hugo."

909
00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:16.750
He was one month!

910
00:46:17.250 --> 00:46:18.916
And he said, in these words:

911
00:46:19.208 --> 00:46:21.916
"Of course not,
I'll dedicate the goal from the final."

912
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.083
(Epic music)

913
00:46:28.708 --> 00:46:31.916
(TORRES) "For as long as I've known Luis,
I think he has tried

914
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.458
to be...

915
00:46:34.541 --> 00:46:36.583
my teaching, my sporting father.

916
00:46:36.875 --> 00:46:38.458
Before going out for the final,

917
00:46:38.541 --> 00:46:41.708
he pulled me aside, made the sign
of the cross on my forehead,"

918
00:46:42.416 --> 00:46:44.625
kissed me on my forehead
and said: "Kid...,

919
00:46:45.666 --> 00:46:47.166
go out there, score two goals

920
00:46:47.375 --> 00:46:49.208
and make us champions.
It has to be you."

921
00:46:49.291 --> 00:46:51.666
I felt that he wanted it to be me.

922
00:46:52.541 --> 00:46:53.625
Luckily, it happened.

923
00:46:54.375 --> 00:46:57.041
Yes, it was a loving gesture to him.

924
00:46:57.291 --> 00:46:59.250
I mean, Luis really loved the Niño.

925
00:46:59.875 --> 00:47:01.750
I was convinced
he would score two goals,

926
00:47:01.916 --> 00:47:03.708
but one felt like five.

927
00:47:04.083 --> 00:47:06.208
"Torres deserved that goal.

928
00:47:06.291 --> 00:47:10.375
You could say that with that goal,
football was fair to him.

929
00:47:10.625 --> 00:47:15.208
-We're champions!
-Spain are champions of Europe!

930
00:47:16.500 --> 00:47:19.166
44 years later,

931
00:47:19.250 --> 00:47:21.416
they're champions!
-We're champions of Europe.

932
00:47:21.541 --> 00:47:24.333
This group, this team managed
to become champions of Europe

933
00:47:24.625 --> 00:47:26.208
when nobody believed in us.

934
00:47:27.333 --> 00:47:28.791
And we rewrote history."

935
00:47:33.166 --> 00:47:34.875
♪ (ALL) Champions!

936
00:47:35.083 --> 00:47:38.333
♪ Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh!

937
00:47:38.416 --> 00:47:41.708
♪ Champions, champions!

938
00:47:41.791 --> 00:47:44.583
♪ Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh! ♪

939
00:47:44.750 --> 00:47:45.833
-A dream?
-Uf!

940
00:47:45.916 --> 00:47:47.625
-(LAUGHS)
-We still can't believe it.

941
00:47:47.791 --> 00:47:50.041
Before we get to Spain,
we won't know what it is.

942
00:47:50.125 --> 00:47:53.375
(Horns)

943
00:47:53.625 --> 00:47:55.958
Come on lads, come on!

944
00:47:56.666 --> 00:47:59.166
(Cheering)

945
00:48:08.750 --> 00:48:12.333
"From Argentina, Lionel Messi!

946
00:48:14.041 --> 00:48:17.791
From Portugal, Cristiano Ronaldo!

947
00:48:18.791 --> 00:48:22.166
And from Spain, Fernando Torres!

948
00:48:24.250 --> 00:48:25.333
Never in my life

949
00:48:25.916 --> 00:48:29.375
would I have imagined being
the third best player in the world."

950
00:48:29.750 --> 00:48:32.041
It was just unthinkable.

951
00:48:32.125 --> 00:48:33.583
I was floating on air.

952
00:48:33.791 --> 00:48:35.500
Hey, Niño, you've done it!

953
00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:37.666
I was super proud

954
00:48:38.083 --> 00:48:40.958
I mean, Jesus,
this lad from Fuenlabrada...

955
00:48:41.708 --> 00:48:42.708
look where he is!

956
00:48:42.958 --> 00:48:45.625
"He was at the peak
of the world of football.

957
00:48:45.833 --> 00:48:48.208
-In football, we talk about Ronaldo"

958
00:48:48.416 --> 00:48:50.791
and Messi,
and I think they're from another planet.

959
00:48:51.083 --> 00:48:54.500
So, for me, if I was Fernando
and finished third,

960
00:48:54.666 --> 00:48:56.333
in my mind, I would be first.

961
00:48:57.291 --> 00:48:58.875
-"...who scored the deciding...

962
00:48:59.125 --> 00:49:01.500
goal against Germany in Vienna,

963
00:49:01.833 --> 00:49:03.666
Fernando Torres!

964
00:49:04.166 --> 00:49:06.000
More than the great season
at Liverpool,

965
00:49:06.166 --> 00:49:08.583
what put me in that place was the Euros

966
00:49:08.875 --> 00:49:10.208
with the goal in the final."

967
00:49:10.833 --> 00:49:13.166
I need titles and I'm not getting them.

968
00:49:14.208 --> 00:49:16.291
Goals are important to me...

969
00:49:16.875 --> 00:49:19.625
big games, trophies are important to me.

970
00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:26.375
"There's a moment of contradiction

971
00:49:27.208 --> 00:49:30.666
in the club's discourse
that we're going to improve,"

972
00:49:30.916 --> 00:49:34.333
bring in players to complete the squad
to take that last little step

973
00:49:34.416 --> 00:49:37.583
to get to the final,
to compete with United...

974
00:49:38.291 --> 00:49:39.291
Xabi Alonso leaves.

975
00:49:40.875 --> 00:49:42.500
"That summer, another pillar leaves,

976
00:49:42.708 --> 00:49:44.583
Mascherano, then the exit

977
00:49:44.666 --> 00:49:46.666
of Rafa Benítez later."

978
00:49:47.125 --> 00:49:48.458
Now we're really far away,

979
00:49:49.041 --> 00:49:51.708
very far from what I was looking for
when I left home.

980
00:49:51.833 --> 00:49:53.666
I left home to come here.

981
00:49:53.958 --> 00:49:56.750
(Crowd chanting)

982
00:49:56.833 --> 00:50:00.125
I remember that season very well
because it was a World Cup season.

983
00:50:00.541 --> 00:50:02.625
"It would be a brutal year

984
00:50:03.708 --> 00:50:06.208
and finally winning titles
with Liverpool

985
00:50:06.375 --> 00:50:10.125
and scoring high.
On the pitch, I felt better than ever.

986
00:50:10.291 --> 00:50:13.000
The World Cup comes closer
and I feel better.

987
00:50:13.583 --> 00:50:15.583
But then I get a torn meniscus."

988
00:50:16.375 --> 00:50:19.458
8 APRIL 2010

989
00:50:19.833 --> 00:50:22.000
I jump for a glancing header

990
00:50:22.375 --> 00:50:23.833
and I lost balance in the air

991
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:28.458
and... I landed on my right leg
and I felt something.

992
00:50:29.333 --> 00:50:31.958
-"He jumps, lands, and stays still."

993
00:50:32.041 --> 00:50:35.500
It wasn't normal behaviour for him.
Over the next few minutes I saw

994
00:50:36.166 --> 00:50:38.791
"he was flexing his knee
and something wasn't right."

995
00:50:39.458 --> 00:50:43.375
I felt a little crack,
like something wasn't in place

996
00:50:43.583 --> 00:50:45.583
but I could keep playing.

997
00:50:45.666 --> 00:50:47.875
"I score two goals, we won and qualified

998
00:50:47.958 --> 00:50:49.875
for the semifinals, and half an hour"

999
00:50:49.958 --> 00:50:52.833
after the match,
my knee was like a balloon.

1000
00:50:54.333 --> 00:50:57.916
"In the tests, we couldn't see
what was wrong and Doctor Cugat said

1001
00:50:58.125 --> 00:51:00.625
he couldn't see clearly either.
So I made the decision"

1002
00:51:00.708 --> 00:51:02.000
"I'm going to Barcelona."

1003
00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.208
(JOURNALIST) "The volcano in Iceland

1004
00:51:06.291 --> 00:51:08.416
has once again
caused air travel restrictions.

1005
00:51:08.583 --> 00:51:11.708
The explosive activity has increases
in the past hours

1006
00:51:12.083 --> 00:51:16.250
and there are dangerous levels of ash
for airplanes in some areas."

1007
00:51:17.666 --> 00:51:18.708
You can't fly.

1008
00:51:19.375 --> 00:51:22.875
I couldn't believe it:
"Is there no way I can fly to Spain?"

1009
00:51:23.500 --> 00:51:25.375
"We have no choice." Get in the car.

1010
00:51:25.541 --> 00:51:27.833
He says: "I'm going."
I said: "What do you mean?

1011
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.208
I'm not staying here."
He says: "How can you come

1012
00:51:30.291 --> 00:51:32.041
when pregnant
and with a little girl?"

1013
00:51:32.125 --> 00:51:36.166
I said: "I'm not staying.
What will I do alone in Liverpool?"

1014
00:51:36.250 --> 00:51:39.958
So we got in the car
and went... to Barcelona.

1015
00:51:44.916 --> 00:51:46.333
"I get to Barcelona,

1016
00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:49.125
we do the same test
and Doctor Cugat says

1017
00:51:49.208 --> 00:51:51.250
if we did surgery,
I would be out for so long"

1018
00:51:51.333 --> 00:51:52.875
that I would miss the World Cup.

1019
00:51:52.958 --> 00:51:55.208
If we have to remove the meniscus,
remove it.

1020
00:51:55.458 --> 00:51:58.125
I don't care about the price,
I've got to be in the World Cup

1021
00:51:58.208 --> 00:51:59.833
because I knew Spain could win it.

1022
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.833
We did an intensive physio program

1023
00:52:06.916 --> 00:52:09.583
without taking risks, obviously,
but knowing that we had

1024
00:52:09.791 --> 00:52:13.500
some milestones to hit
if we want Fernando to make the date.

1025
00:52:13.708 --> 00:52:17.375
-"I still joke with him: 'If they'd seen
what we did in your physiotherapy,"

1026
00:52:17.500 --> 00:52:20.666
they'd take my license away.'

1027
00:52:20.833 --> 00:52:23.541
We operated at dawn
and got to work at 08:00

1028
00:52:23.666 --> 00:52:24.708
"doing strength.

1029
00:52:24.791 --> 00:52:27.250
-He's just had an operation. Torres..."

1030
00:52:27.333 --> 00:52:28.750
he had to be operated on,

1031
00:52:28.833 --> 00:52:31.291
but we're hoping it's not serious

1032
00:52:31.875 --> 00:52:34.791
and it also seems that he was...

1033
00:52:34.916 --> 00:52:37.541
as far as we know,
he was very happy with how it went.

1034
00:52:38.250 --> 00:52:41.958
We were in the hands
of the doctors and physios.

1035
00:52:42.041 --> 00:52:45.666
We knew the determination
he had in terms of recovery

1036
00:52:45.750 --> 00:52:46.750
and how much he wanted

1037
00:52:46.833 --> 00:52:49.916
to join the national team,
but it was an uncertain moment

1038
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.833
"and we held on until the last moment.

1039
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.458
-Del Bosque asked
if he could use Torres or not,"

1040
00:52:56.166 --> 00:52:59.958
and that is a situation
when a doctor has to be clear.

1041
00:53:00.083 --> 00:53:02.250
Seeing Fernando work,
I said he'd be OK.

1042
00:53:06.541 --> 00:53:08.083
(DEL BOSQUE)" As forwards,

1043
00:53:09.208 --> 00:53:10.458
David Silva,

1044
00:53:10.750 --> 00:53:11.833
Mata,

1045
00:53:12.333 --> 00:53:13.458
Llorente,

1046
00:53:13.833 --> 00:53:14.833
Navas,

1047
00:53:15.458 --> 00:53:16.500
Pedro..."

1048
00:53:17.916 --> 00:53:19.083
Fernando Torres.

1049
00:53:20.458 --> 00:53:23.375
(FERNANDO)
"Before the first match in South Africa,"

1050
00:53:24.458 --> 00:53:27.208
he came to speak to me
and explained the situation:

1051
00:53:28.416 --> 00:53:30.583
"Prepare everything for the last 16."

1052
00:53:31.250 --> 00:53:32.750
"And it seemed like a great idea.

1053
00:53:32.833 --> 00:53:35.583
It hurt to miss three World Cup matches,

1054
00:53:35.666 --> 00:53:37.958
but my goal then was to be OK

1055
00:53:38.250 --> 00:53:40.083
and I know
it's most important at the end."

1056
00:53:42.208 --> 00:53:43.208
What happens?

1057
00:53:43.291 --> 00:53:44.500
We lost to Switzerland.

1058
00:53:45.625 --> 00:53:46.750
And everything changed.

1059
00:53:46.833 --> 00:53:49.000
"I ended up starting in the next match,

1060
00:53:49.083 --> 00:53:51.333
I had to be there.
We lost the first match,"

1061
00:53:51.416 --> 00:53:54.291
it's an unimaginable situation
and we have to react.

1062
00:53:54.375 --> 00:53:55.833
Yes, because...

1063
00:53:55.916 --> 00:53:58.083
after losing against Switzerland,

1064
00:53:58.500 --> 00:54:01.666
we had two games we had to win

1065
00:54:02.375 --> 00:54:04.791
and we looked for a bit...
we looked for a bit of depth.

1066
00:54:05.083 --> 00:54:06.458
(Cheering)

1067
00:54:06.916 --> 00:54:08.125
They're here...

1068
00:54:08.208 --> 00:54:10.875
-"I played against Honduras, all good;

1069
00:54:11.250 --> 00:54:12.625
against Chile it was good, too,

1070
00:54:12.708 --> 00:54:14.625
albeit a little pain at the end,

1071
00:54:15.083 --> 00:54:17.583
and the next day
I woke up with my knee...

1072
00:54:17.708 --> 00:54:20.291
full of liquid, swollen...
I couldn't believe it."

1073
00:54:21.166 --> 00:54:23.500
Football was telling me:
"Not this time."

1074
00:54:24.583 --> 00:54:27.958
"And so started the race against time
to get to the next match

1075
00:54:28.333 --> 00:54:30.000
with as little pain as possible.

1076
00:54:31.166 --> 00:54:34.541
It's a World Cup final
and it will maybe never happen again."

1077
00:54:34.666 --> 00:54:37.000
(COMMENTATOR) Cesc to Navas.
He's on the other side.

1078
00:54:37.083 --> 00:54:38.583
Iniesta. Torres...

1079
00:54:38.833 --> 00:54:41.000
Almost 11, a cross from Torres...

1080
00:54:41.291 --> 00:54:44.833
Ball to Cesc.
Cesc, to Iniesta...

1081
00:54:47.583 --> 00:54:50.416
Goal!

1082
00:54:50.500 --> 00:54:53.041
-And when the ball went in,
it's just unbelievable.

1083
00:54:53.458 --> 00:54:55.333
"You can't believe it... I ran.
I don't know

1084
00:54:56.208 --> 00:54:59.375
if I was the first there or if Pepe,
who was on the bench, overtook me.

1085
00:54:59.458 --> 00:55:02.250
But we had the feeling
that the Cup was over."

1086
00:55:03.083 --> 00:55:07.291
(Epic music)

1087
00:55:23.083 --> 00:55:25.750
"His injury in the final
was a mental injury. Fernando is"

1088
00:55:25.916 --> 00:55:27.166
a winner, a champion,

1089
00:55:27.250 --> 00:55:30.625
a guy who gives it his all
when he's out on the pitch

1090
00:55:30.708 --> 00:55:33.083
and when he saw he couldn't give it all,

1091
00:55:33.375 --> 00:55:35.208
he was so overwhelmed he felt the pain.

1092
00:55:36.208 --> 00:55:39.416
He got injured
in what they call the feeling muscle.

1093
00:55:40.083 --> 00:55:41.083
Imagine that!

1094
00:55:41.541 --> 00:55:43.416
He went down because he thought more

1095
00:55:43.708 --> 00:55:45.125
about "I've had another injury"

1096
00:55:45.208 --> 00:55:47.791
than "I'm going to be a world champion."

1097
00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:51.708
"That feeling makes him start to cry.

1098
00:55:51.791 --> 00:55:54.833
-I remember being on the stretcher,
covering my eyes

1099
00:55:55.291 --> 00:55:58.416
and when we got to the dressing room,
they said"

1100
00:55:58.541 --> 00:56:01.125
the match had finished
and we were champions.

1101
00:56:03.166 --> 00:56:04.333
(SINGING)

1102
00:56:04.416 --> 00:56:06.916
"I said: 'Let's go outside,
you have to forget this.'"

1103
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:09.375
I was saying compulsively:
"You're a world champion"

1104
00:56:09.833 --> 00:56:13.125
"and we went out onto the pitch
where he celebrated and he stopped

1105
00:56:13.208 --> 00:56:14.958
the agony of thinking about injuries.

1106
00:56:15.041 --> 00:56:16.750
-But it obviously wasn't the image

1107
00:56:16.875 --> 00:56:19.250
I had of myself being
a champion of the world."

1108
00:56:19.666 --> 00:56:21.291
Yes, you're a champion

1109
00:56:22.375 --> 00:56:23.916
and you've achieved your goal,

1110
00:56:25.250 --> 00:56:26.500
this wasn't the script.

1111
00:56:38.958 --> 00:56:41.583
I remember it as if it was yesterday.
On the plane I said:

1112
00:56:41.666 --> 00:56:44.833
"Before the World Cup, wouldn't you
have said yes to injuring yourself

1113
00:56:44.916 --> 00:56:46.250
and being a world champion?"

1114
00:56:46.333 --> 00:56:47.750
He said: "Of course!"

1115
00:56:48.166 --> 00:56:51.916
-"He was screwed beyond belief, but..."

1116
00:56:52.125 --> 00:56:54.708
he was really important

1117
00:56:54.791 --> 00:56:56.125
in the games he played in

1118
00:56:56.208 --> 00:56:59.083
and also in the build up to the goal.

1119
00:57:01.750 --> 00:57:03.375
(TORRES) "At that time, it was

1120
00:57:03.500 --> 00:57:06.958
one of the first times
I wondered whether...

1121
00:57:08.041 --> 00:57:09.708
work is the only path

1122
00:57:11.458 --> 00:57:15.041
and if it's worth sacrificing everything
for one moment,

1123
00:57:15.875 --> 00:57:16.875
if it's better

1124
00:57:16.958 --> 00:57:19.041
thinking with your brain or your heart,

1125
00:57:19.125 --> 00:57:20.458
as I'd done until then.

1126
00:57:20.916 --> 00:57:23.000
I clearly hadn't been thinking
with my head.

1127
00:57:24.750 --> 00:57:27.333
"Was it really worth
being a world champion

1128
00:57:27.416 --> 00:57:30.208
for everything I... risked...

1129
00:57:32.125 --> 00:57:33.125
Would it be better

1130
00:57:33.208 --> 00:57:35.166
if I hadn't gone
and worked on my career,

1131
00:57:35.875 --> 00:57:37.750
that seemed to have no limit

1132
00:57:37.833 --> 00:57:39.875
at the time?
How far would I have gone?

1133
00:57:40.708 --> 00:57:42.458
Did it affect it or not?"

1134
00:57:43.416 --> 00:57:45.166
Now, looking at it in perspective,

1135
00:57:46.666 --> 00:57:48.666
maybe it wasn't an intelligent decision.

1136
00:57:49.875 --> 00:57:52.791
"Torres' romance
with Liverpool has lasted four years.

1137
00:57:52.875 --> 00:57:54.250
This week, Torres put in

1138
00:57:54.333 --> 00:57:56.500
an official transfer request
at Liverpool.

1139
00:57:56.708 --> 00:57:57.875
The economic

1140
00:57:58.125 --> 00:58:00.958
and sporting crisis at the Reds
was the spark.

1141
00:58:01.041 --> 00:58:03.208
-With 72 goals to his name,

1142
00:58:03.291 --> 00:58:05.791
Torres still hadn't won any silverware
as a Red.

1143
00:58:05.875 --> 00:58:07.708
The most expensive signing
in PL history,

1144
00:58:07.791 --> 00:58:11.375
the fifth in the history of football
and the top-paid Spanish footballer:

1145
00:58:11.458 --> 00:58:15.041
as of today,
Fernando Torres is all of those things."

1146
00:58:16.458 --> 00:58:18.000
(SIGHS)

1147
00:58:19.250 --> 00:58:22.708
It's still hard to understand
why he left.

1148
00:58:22.958 --> 00:58:25.708
"There would have been reasons,
he would have been frustrated,

1149
00:58:25.791 --> 00:58:28.333
maybe he just wanted...
you know, a change.

1150
00:58:28.458 --> 00:58:30.583
But the brutal reality
for the Liverpool fans is

1151
00:58:30.833 --> 00:58:33.208
he's not one of their own,
he's not Steven Gerrard.

1152
00:58:33.333 --> 00:58:36.125
You're a king,
but you could become a true legend.

1153
00:58:36.791 --> 00:58:39.166
It's like turning your back
on your family."

1154
00:58:45.875 --> 00:58:48.833
(SHOUTING)

1155
00:58:50.250 --> 00:58:52.250
(FERNANDO)
"I will always regret

1156
00:58:52.333 --> 00:58:56.833
not having tried to stop
the team falling apart,

1157
00:58:57.250 --> 00:58:59.000
demanding that they sign players.

1158
00:58:59.583 --> 00:59:03.083
But I don't regret having left
because they didn't fulfil

1159
00:59:03.166 --> 00:59:06.375
the promises and expectations
that the club had offered me.

1160
00:59:07.125 --> 00:59:09.416
What happened during that period

1161
00:59:09.500 --> 00:59:12.625
was that nobody was bothered
about Liverpool or their fans.

1162
00:59:12.958 --> 00:59:15.541
On a director's level,
the club doesn't exist."

1163
00:59:17.916 --> 00:59:21.125
At the time, there were people
in charge as they sold the club

1164
00:59:21.833 --> 00:59:24.500
who didn't care a bit about Liverpool

1165
00:59:24.791 --> 00:59:27.125
or any of the players personally.

1166
00:59:27.208 --> 00:59:30.791
The club was in ruin... internally.

1167
00:59:31.083 --> 00:59:33.958
And it needed years to recover.
I didn't have that kind of time.

1168
00:59:34.458 --> 00:59:38.000
"When we explained the situation,

1169
00:59:38.958 --> 00:59:40.625
first to the Director of Football,

1170
00:59:40.708 --> 00:59:42.291
who was Damien Comolli at the time,

1171
00:59:42.583 --> 00:59:43.750
I never saw"

1172
00:59:43.833 --> 00:59:47.583
any evidence that they cared
about me leaving,

1173
00:59:48.583 --> 00:59:50.625
rather it started to become

1174
00:59:51.583 --> 00:59:52.833
"How much will we earn...

1175
00:59:54.875 --> 00:59:56.208
and when will we do it?"

1176
00:59:56.833 --> 01:00:00.916
I don't know where they came from,
but they stabbed me in the back

1177
01:00:01.291 --> 01:00:02.708
and betrayed me,

1178
01:00:03.250 --> 01:00:05.916
because minutes later,
it was in the press

1179
01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.625
meaning that somehow,
they had to find the guilty party.

1180
01:00:11.250 --> 01:00:16.208
"LET ME GO! TORRES TELLS KENNY
HE WANTS TO GO TO CHELSEA"

1181
01:00:16.500 --> 01:00:20.291
FERNANDO TORRES
ASKS TO ABANDON LIVERPOOL

1182
01:00:20.375 --> 01:00:23.000
"I'M LEAVING! TORRES REQUESTS TRANSFER

1183
01:00:23.083 --> 01:00:26.125
BUT LIVERPOOL SURPRISE
THE SPANISH STRIKER"

1184
01:00:26.500 --> 01:00:29.875
If I'd listened to what the press said,

1185
01:00:30.750 --> 01:00:33.375
I would have hated that player
they were writing about too.

1186
01:00:33.625 --> 01:00:36.291
I haven't see anybody held to account.

1187
01:00:36.375 --> 01:00:37.958
And it could have... (exhales)

1188
01:00:38.125 --> 01:00:39.833
Good Lord, what it could have done!

1189
01:00:40.333 --> 01:00:43.083
Because a lot of people
lost respect for him

1190
01:00:43.291 --> 01:00:45.208
being the player he is.

1191
01:00:48.083 --> 01:00:49.291
I mean journalists,

1192
01:00:49.750 --> 01:00:51.208
I mean fans...

1193
01:00:52.041 --> 01:00:55.125
I mean people
who are part of the footballing world.

1194
01:01:00.750 --> 01:01:04.416
"It must have felt like a dagger
to Liverpool fans' hearts."

1195
01:01:04.583 --> 01:01:06.250
When a transfer request goes in,

1196
01:01:06.458 --> 01:01:09.458
that's not simply agents
and journalists talking

1197
01:01:09.541 --> 01:01:11.625
and headlines. That is very real,

1198
01:01:11.708 --> 01:01:14.000
that is a player saying:
"I want to leave,

1199
01:01:14.208 --> 01:01:16.291
I am turning my back on you,
it's divorce."

1200
01:01:16.833 --> 01:01:20.500
Not many people can play
with my heart, only my family,

1201
01:01:20.583 --> 01:01:22.291
but, Fernando Torres,

1202
01:01:22.375 --> 01:01:24.541
when he came to me
and we spoke face-to-face,

1203
01:01:25.333 --> 01:01:27.500
I knew he wanted to go to Chelsea,

1204
01:01:28.125 --> 01:01:30.166
so it was a difficult position
for me to be in

1205
01:01:30.250 --> 01:01:33.333
because I wanted to keep him
at Liverpool and I wanted to stay close

1206
01:01:33.416 --> 01:01:36.791
"and be his partner for a long, time.
At the same time,

1207
01:01:36.875 --> 01:01:38.708
as a friend, I didn't want to stop him."

1208
01:01:39.541 --> 01:01:41.458
I remember the day, and...

1209
01:01:42.125 --> 01:01:45.208
it was one of the worst days
of my football career, for sure.

1210
01:01:48.291 --> 01:01:51.166
(FERNANDO)
"I left friends, I left memories

1211
01:01:51.250 --> 01:01:54.166
I achieved some personal goals,
others were left unfulfilled...

1212
01:01:54.250 --> 01:01:57.458
All footballers need to feel
they've fulfilled their potential

1213
01:01:57.541 --> 01:01:59.583
and now I'm going to look for it
at Chelsea.

1214
01:01:59.750 --> 01:02:02.208
So, it's a big step for me,
and I only hope"

1215
01:02:02.291 --> 01:02:03.708
it lives up to expectations.

1216
01:02:03.791 --> 01:02:05.125
-Did you want more titles?

1217
01:02:05.375 --> 01:02:07.458
-Yes, we all want that.
-(Sighs)

1218
01:02:08.875 --> 01:02:10.666
I mean... yeah...

1219
01:02:12.333 --> 01:02:14.125
Fernando Torres leaving...

1220
01:02:15.541 --> 01:02:16.583
I mean, yeah...

1221
01:02:17.416 --> 01:02:18.416
I'm still in shock now.

1222
01:02:19.125 --> 01:02:20.750
Fernando Torres leaving...

1223
01:02:21.958 --> 01:02:24.791
For some on Merseyside,
for Liverpool fans,

1224
01:02:24.875 --> 01:02:27.625
it did feel like a betrayal,
particularly going to Chelsea,

1225
01:02:27.708 --> 01:02:30.083
particularly with everything
Chelsea represented:

1226
01:02:30.166 --> 01:02:31.750
New money, Russian money.

1227
01:02:31.916 --> 01:02:32.916
So...

1228
01:02:33.083 --> 01:02:35.666
it must have felt
like a double snub to them.

1229
01:02:38.375 --> 01:02:40.583
"Huge loser, traitor.

1230
01:02:40.958 --> 01:02:42.750
We plan on lighting this bitch on fire.

1231
01:02:43.625 --> 01:02:44.666
See how this works.

1232
01:02:46.416 --> 01:02:47.458
All right.

1233
01:02:48.666 --> 01:02:51.208
Liverpool's number nine is gone.
Bye bye, Torres.

1234
01:02:51.583 --> 01:02:53.000
You'll never walk alone..."

1235
01:02:54.125 --> 01:02:55.166
(Chuckling)

1236
01:02:55.416 --> 01:02:56.500
"Ciao, Torres.

1237
01:02:57.916 --> 01:02:59.500
Yeah, it's fucking poison, man."

1238
01:03:07.916 --> 01:03:09.000
"I understand...

1239
01:03:09.833 --> 01:03:11.625
people's reaction

1240
01:03:11.875 --> 01:03:14.500
and the anger and disappointment.

1241
01:03:15.291 --> 01:03:18.041
I didn't consider the other elements,
the rivalry.

1242
01:03:18.458 --> 01:03:22.000
I didn't care about the city
or the glamour...

1243
01:03:22.208 --> 01:03:24.416
I chose the place I thought

1244
01:03:24.500 --> 01:03:26.750
would get me closer
to what I didn't have,

1245
01:03:26.833 --> 01:03:29.458
the reason I left home,
which was titles."

1246
01:03:37.083 --> 01:03:38.791
(Rock music)

1247
01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:54.083
"At 6 in the evening"

1248
01:03:54.166 --> 01:03:56.583
they gave us the green light
to prepare his exit.

1249
01:03:56.791 --> 01:03:59.416
To prepare his exit because Chelsea said

1250
01:03:59.500 --> 01:04:01.125
they would pay 50 million pounds

1251
01:04:01.208 --> 01:04:02.750
"laid out in the document.

1252
01:04:02.958 --> 01:04:04.958
Fernando passed his medical, we signed,

1253
01:04:05.791 --> 01:04:07.791
we were happy at the time"

1254
01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:09.458
until we saw the calendar

1255
01:04:09.541 --> 01:04:12.166
and the first match...
Chelsea-Liverpool.

1256
01:04:13.208 --> 01:04:15.500
(COMMENTATOR)
"Weak ball for Torres...

1257
01:04:18.500 --> 01:04:19.500
I couldn't score."

1258
01:04:19.708 --> 01:04:23.708
I couldn't score in the first match,
then the second. Then a lot of matches.

1259
01:04:23.791 --> 01:04:27.291
When you have in your head
all sorts of different ideas

1260
01:04:27.375 --> 01:04:30.708
like "Oh, I have to score!",
"When is the ball coming?",

1261
01:04:31.291 --> 01:04:33.958
"'I need that goal',
it obviously affects your game

1262
01:04:34.125 --> 01:04:37.208
because you forget about
the calm process of going

1263
01:04:37.291 --> 01:04:39.958
to places where you were scoring goals.

1264
01:04:40.125 --> 01:04:42.875
-And it was like
he had forgotten how to play,"

1265
01:04:42.958 --> 01:04:45.708
or how to score, it was like
he was learning a new language.

1266
01:04:45.833 --> 01:04:49.291
It was almost Shakespearean to watch,
it was almost a tragedy.

1267
01:04:49.416 --> 01:04:53.208
Fernando goes to Chelsea
with a 50-million pound price tag,

1268
01:04:53.291 --> 01:04:55.833
which brings a lot of pressure,
a lot of expectation,

1269
01:04:56.583 --> 01:04:59.916
so I just think
it was a completely different...

1270
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.708
"set of circumstances at Chelsea.
At Liverpool,"

1271
01:05:02.791 --> 01:05:04.916
Fernando's confidence was very high.

1272
01:05:05.208 --> 01:05:06.750
His body was fine,

1273
01:05:06.833 --> 01:05:08.958
and the whole team was about Fernando.

1274
01:05:09.833 --> 01:05:12.333
I think when you go to Chelsea,
it's a different feeling.

1275
01:05:12.416 --> 01:05:13.500
They have...

1276
01:05:13.958 --> 01:05:17.041
"maybe five different superstars

1277
01:05:17.125 --> 01:05:19.083
and the team
is about five different people.

1278
01:05:19.166 --> 01:05:20.708
-I couldn't earn that place"

1279
01:05:20.875 --> 01:05:22.083
or they didn't give me it.

1280
01:05:22.541 --> 01:05:25.583
And this left me partly,
it didn't allow me to be...

1281
01:05:26.208 --> 01:05:27.500
completely happy.

1282
01:05:27.958 --> 01:05:31.083
Maybe that's one of the reasons,
because I wasn't on the pitch, either.

1283
01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:34.541
-"Everyone did their own thing

1284
01:05:34.625 --> 01:05:36.375
and maybe Fernando needed

1285
01:05:36.458 --> 01:05:37.541
a bit more help.

1286
01:05:38.166 --> 01:05:40.958
Fernando isn't a robot"

1287
01:05:41.125 --> 01:05:44.666
who arrives, gets his boots on,
gets his trousers on,

1288
01:05:44.833 --> 01:05:46.458
gets his training shirt on...

1289
01:05:46.666 --> 01:05:49.208
Fernando needs warmth by his side,

1290
01:05:49.291 --> 01:05:52.541
he needs to grow with the group.

1291
01:05:54.500 --> 01:05:56.208
-"And in the hardest game,

1292
01:05:56.500 --> 01:05:58.041
the ball was slowed by the rain,

1293
01:05:58.125 --> 01:05:59.750
like the brakes had been put on,

1294
01:05:59.833 --> 01:06:02.666
but that's what helped me
as everyone overshot

1295
01:06:02.750 --> 01:06:05.541
and then with my left foot,
almost with my back to the goal,

1296
01:06:05.625 --> 01:06:06.666
I got my first goal."

1297
01:06:07.750 --> 01:06:09.750
(Crowd cheering)

1298
01:06:10.666 --> 01:06:14.416
"It was an emancipation
and that's often what you need

1299
01:06:14.500 --> 01:06:15.750
to change the dynamic.

1300
01:06:15.958 --> 01:06:19.250
I hoped that would be what happened,
but unfortunately, it wasn't.

1301
01:06:19.833 --> 01:06:22.333
Looking for Torres through the middle.
Great chance...

1302
01:06:22.416 --> 01:06:24.625
Torres... No, what a miss!

1303
01:06:24.708 --> 01:06:26.583
Oh, that's extraordinary!

1304
01:06:27.208 --> 01:06:29.333
One of the greatest misses

1305
01:06:29.416 --> 01:06:31.250
of all time in the Premier League!

1306
01:06:32.583 --> 01:06:33.750
Fifty million pounds

1307
01:06:33.833 --> 01:06:35.541
and he misses an open goal!"

1308
01:06:37.750 --> 01:06:41.166
In that game, I scored what was maybe
one of my best goals with Chelsea.

1309
01:06:42.250 --> 01:06:45.416
"Anelka... and Torres... scores!"

1310
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:48.333
You can score 100 times and miss once

1311
01:06:48.500 --> 01:06:49.875
and they'll remember the miss.

1312
01:06:52.375 --> 01:06:56.625
THE EXCUSES START TO WEAR THIN
WITH TORRES' LACK OF GOALS

1313
01:06:56.708 --> 01:07:01.083
TORRES ASSURES CHELSEA FANS
HE HASN'T FORGOTTEN HOW TO SCORE GOALS

1314
01:07:01.250 --> 01:07:03.458
HOW DID YOU MISS THAT,
FERNANDO?

1315
01:07:03.541 --> 01:07:07.208
TERRY SENT OFF. MESSI MISSES
PENALTY. CHELSEA IN THE FINAL.

1316
01:07:07.291 --> 01:07:10.500
BUT MOST SHOCKINGLY: TORRES SCORES!

1317
01:07:16.041 --> 01:07:19.083
"Fears and doubts appeared.

1318
01:07:20.666 --> 01:07:22.416
Feelings I'd never had."

1319
01:07:22.875 --> 01:07:25.208
(COMMENTATOR) "Oh, it's extraordinary!

1320
01:07:26.083 --> 01:07:28.791
One of the greatest misses

1321
01:07:28.875 --> 01:07:31.083
of all time in the Premier League!

1322
01:07:32.083 --> 01:07:34.125
In front of the Stretford End.

1323
01:07:35.416 --> 01:07:37.333
50 millions pounds

1324
01:07:37.416 --> 01:07:39.416
and he misses an open goal!

1325
01:07:48.500 --> 01:07:52.083
That set up the most difficult decision
in my whole career.

1326
01:07:52.833 --> 01:07:55.500
I started to fight
against the Torres Liverpool."

1327
01:07:59.166 --> 01:08:00.916
The shadow of the first months

1328
01:08:01.833 --> 01:08:04.666
is what makes many people question

1329
01:08:04.791 --> 01:08:08.541
whether it was a success or not

1330
01:08:09.041 --> 01:08:11.833
or whatever happened
in my time at Chelsea.

1331
01:08:12.500 --> 01:08:14.208
I think my most honest summary

1332
01:08:14.666 --> 01:08:17.083
is that I didn't live up
to the expectations

1333
01:08:17.208 --> 01:08:18.458
on a personal level,

1334
01:08:19.125 --> 01:08:20.875
but I did on a collective level.

1335
01:08:21.250 --> 01:08:24.083
I was in the most important moments

1336
01:08:24.208 --> 01:08:26.625
of all those trophies,
in the key moments.

1337
01:08:26.750 --> 01:08:30.791
(Crowd shouting)

1338
01:08:31.416 --> 01:08:33.791
(COMMENTATOR) -"Shout for a handball...
-Is it? Is it?

1339
01:08:33.875 --> 01:08:34.958
Fernando Torres!

1340
01:08:35.333 --> 01:08:36.333
This could be

1341
01:08:36.458 --> 01:08:39.375
the most dramatic story of the season!

1342
01:08:39.500 --> 01:08:41.291
It's Torres to give Chelsea

1343
01:08:41.625 --> 01:08:44.416
a place in the Champions League final!

1344
01:08:45.083 --> 01:08:46.875
The headline has been written!

1345
01:08:47.583 --> 01:08:51.041
Fifty million pounds
has just been repaid

1346
01:08:51.166 --> 01:08:52.166
by Fernando Torres!"

1347
01:08:53.916 --> 01:08:55.458
That's why football is so amazing.

1348
01:08:55.541 --> 01:08:57.875
Because those minutes gave me the chance

1349
01:08:58.041 --> 01:08:59.625
to be the total

1350
01:08:59.750 --> 01:09:01.083
"and unquestioned hero,

1351
01:09:01.458 --> 01:09:04.041
and people remember that goal
almost as well"

1352
01:09:04.125 --> 01:09:05.166
as the one in the final,

1353
01:09:05.458 --> 01:09:08.375
for Chelsea and for everyone.
It's a milestone in my career.

1354
01:09:10.375 --> 01:09:14.958
CHELSEA
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNERS 2012

1355
01:09:20.166 --> 01:09:21.666
"I was winning titles

1356
01:09:22.458 --> 01:09:25.458
but not in the way
I would have written in the script.

1357
01:09:26.250 --> 01:09:27.708
I wanted to be the hero.

1358
01:09:27.875 --> 01:09:31.166
The first cup I won
as a professional was Euro 2008.

1359
01:09:31.708 --> 01:09:33.500
And experiencing it..."

1360
01:09:33.625 --> 01:09:36.208
as a winner and hero

1361
01:09:36.708 --> 01:09:38.583
is a feeling you want to repeat.

1362
01:09:39.208 --> 01:09:41.333
And it's almost
like if you're missing one,

1363
01:09:42.083 --> 01:09:43.083
it's not enough.

1364
01:09:43.708 --> 01:09:46.125
It's the first time I think seriously:

1365
01:09:46.791 --> 01:09:47.833
"It won't happen here."

1366
01:09:55.208 --> 01:09:58.083
"We all know about his ability,

1367
01:09:58.166 --> 01:10:00.125
his quality and everything,"

1368
01:10:00.583 --> 01:10:02.125
and what a great person he is,

1369
01:10:02.208 --> 01:10:04.125
so he'll start scoring again soon.

1370
01:10:04.375 --> 01:10:05.500
"Silva to Torres!

1371
01:10:05.583 --> 01:10:07.500
Torres has it one on one!
Niño!"

1372
01:10:07.583 --> 01:10:09.625
(COMMENTATORS) "Goal!

1373
01:10:09.708 --> 01:10:11.583
-Come on!
-Incredible!

1374
01:10:11.666 --> 01:10:14.166
You were born a great footballer!

1375
01:10:14.250 --> 01:10:15.416
How do they doubt you?

1376
01:10:16.041 --> 01:10:17.833
Amazing, Niño! Spain!

1377
01:10:17.958 --> 01:10:20.000
-'I'm sure that all of those

1378
01:10:20.208 --> 01:10:21.708
who have played so many games,'"

1379
01:10:21.791 --> 01:10:25.125
two World Cups, two Euros,
and two Confederation Cups,

1380
01:10:25.250 --> 01:10:28.125
"have been our heroes
and he has been one of our heroes.

1381
01:10:28.208 --> 01:10:30.208
-At that time, Fernando was fighting

1382
01:10:30.291 --> 01:10:33.291
to be the top scorer in the tournament.
Well, Fernando,"

1383
01:10:33.416 --> 01:10:35.416
instead of scoring his goal to stay:

1384
01:10:35.625 --> 01:10:39.541
"Yeah, number four!
Golden Boot for me!", no, no.

1385
01:10:40.541 --> 01:10:41.666
"Here, Mata, put it in."

1386
01:10:42.250 --> 01:10:43.375
That is Fernando Torres.

1387
01:10:45.625 --> 01:10:47.750
1 JULY 2012

1388
01:10:47.875 --> 01:10:50.833
FINAL OF EURO 2012
SPAIN-ITALY

1389
01:10:50.916 --> 01:10:53.250
(Crowd cheering)

1390
01:10:55.041 --> 01:10:58.833
SPAIN,
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS 2012

1391
01:10:58.916 --> 01:11:00.625
"I always played well with Spain

1392
01:11:01.041 --> 01:11:02.500
including those times.

1393
01:11:02.750 --> 01:11:05.291
I scored in the final
and got the golden boot,

1394
01:11:05.625 --> 01:11:07.541
I went to the Confederations Cup
in Brazil"

1395
01:11:07.625 --> 01:11:11.625
and got the Golden Boot again
and... the national team helped me

1396
01:11:11.708 --> 01:11:14.541
by compensating what I didn't achieve
with my club at the time.

1397
01:11:15.333 --> 01:11:16.500
"For me, the national team

1398
01:11:17.083 --> 01:11:18.375
was a life saver.

1399
01:11:20.958 --> 01:11:22.041
At the time, it was...

1400
01:11:22.791 --> 01:11:25.250
like a release, to be able to enjoy

1401
01:11:25.458 --> 01:11:27.750
football with my friends and teammates,

1402
01:11:27.958 --> 01:11:29.583
as we rewrote history.

1403
01:11:31.041 --> 01:11:34.166
I don't feel vindicated
because it was the Euros,

1404
01:11:34.791 --> 01:11:37.958
simply because I could be
with my teammates again.

1405
01:11:38.333 --> 01:11:42.250
It was a group that four years earlier
had hardly any kids

1406
01:11:42.333 --> 01:11:44.208
and we had seen the kids grow

1407
01:11:44.333 --> 01:11:46.125
and meet up at cups

1408
01:11:46.208 --> 01:11:47.916
and make friends off the pitch,

1409
01:11:48.875 --> 01:11:50.083
and feel

1410
01:11:50.166 --> 01:11:53.208
that I was part of the family
that was the national team."

1411
01:11:55.375 --> 01:11:58.333
FUKUOKA (JAPAN)

1412
01:11:59.416 --> 01:12:03.833
TWO DAYS TO RETIREMENT

1413
01:12:12.958 --> 01:12:14.458
"It's not hard to be part

1414
01:12:14.583 --> 01:12:16.833
of a footballer's family.
There are many things

1415
01:12:16.958 --> 01:12:18.541
you can't do, but it opens"

1416
01:12:18.708 --> 01:12:20.166
many other doors

1417
01:12:20.583 --> 01:12:22.791
that otherwise, you couldn't experience.

1418
01:12:23.333 --> 01:12:25.750
"He has been
and still is an exemplary father.

1419
01:12:26.250 --> 01:12:29.125
His kids have always been his priority

1420
01:12:29.750 --> 01:12:32.750
and when he got back from football

1421
01:12:32.916 --> 01:12:34.541
that was it: it's now family time.

1422
01:12:35.208 --> 01:12:37.666
-At home, we've always tried

1423
01:12:37.750 --> 01:12:38.750
to separate"

1424
01:12:39.583 --> 01:12:42.458
my profession from our family life.

1425
01:12:42.875 --> 01:12:46.041
It's not a house with a museum full

1426
01:12:46.458 --> 01:12:49.666
"of shirts, or a place where...

1427
01:12:50.166 --> 01:12:51.875
the trophies are kept,

1428
01:12:52.000 --> 01:12:54.500
you won't see photos of football.

1429
01:12:54.750 --> 01:12:57.208
-At home, we never talked
about football."

1430
01:12:57.458 --> 01:13:00.916
When Fernando got home from training,
he was a father here.

1431
01:13:01.958 --> 01:13:03.000
We didn't...

1432
01:13:03.250 --> 01:13:06.041
We didn't even watch football
or anything.

1433
01:13:06.541 --> 01:13:10.041
"For the kids, football was always
a bit of a drag, honestly,

1434
01:13:10.125 --> 01:13:12.416
because it was when dad wasn't here,
when..."

1435
01:13:12.583 --> 01:13:13.916
They didn't have school

1436
01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:17.000
and we couldn't do anything as a family.

1437
01:13:18.375 --> 01:13:19.791
Let's see what mood they're in.

1438
01:13:20.375 --> 01:13:22.500
How long left?
Two days of school then holidays?

1439
01:13:23.916 --> 01:13:25.041
And then let's go.

1440
01:13:30.125 --> 01:13:31.750
This week, let's put a bet on.

1441
01:13:33.500 --> 01:13:34.500
Everything on 15.

1442
01:13:34.916 --> 01:13:36.750
-"I think I have more patience than him."

1443
01:13:37.625 --> 01:13:39.208
He's quite strict

1444
01:13:40.875 --> 01:13:42.958
There are rules
and he wants them to be obeyed.

1445
01:13:45.250 --> 01:13:46.250
"I'm sure

1446
01:13:46.333 --> 01:13:49.000
he projects the discipline
he has had throughout his life

1447
01:13:49.750 --> 01:13:50.791
into daily life."

1448
01:13:50.875 --> 01:13:52.791
(Soft music)

1449
01:13:52.875 --> 01:13:54.625
I would like my children...

1450
01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:57.541
to find something
that makes them truly happy.

1451
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:00.333
"Something they can develop.

1452
01:14:01.666 --> 01:14:02.916
If it's football, perfect;

1453
01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:04.458
if it's something else, great."

1454
01:14:09.625 --> 01:14:11.208
(Rock music)

1455
01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:18.875
"The summer is over, the season is back,"

1456
01:14:18.958 --> 01:14:21.416
starting from zero again...
Then Benítez arrives.

1457
01:14:21.833 --> 01:14:22.875
Rafa!

1458
01:14:23.833 --> 01:14:25.291
-"For me, Benítez

1459
01:14:25.500 --> 01:14:28.333
is like a breath of fresh air."

1460
01:14:28.416 --> 01:14:32.041
Fernando improved, started playing well
and scoring goals. The team

1461
01:14:32.125 --> 01:14:34.416
"did him well.
He got his confidence back,

1462
01:14:34.500 --> 01:14:36.708
that good atmosphere
and good playing style."

1463
01:14:36.833 --> 01:14:38.000
I was the first striker,

1464
01:14:38.083 --> 01:14:40.500
the team's top scorer
scored in the final...

1465
01:14:40.666 --> 01:14:42.000
Things started going well.

1466
01:14:42.708 --> 01:14:44.458
(COMMENTATOR) "Fernando Torres!

1467
01:14:44.916 --> 01:14:46.833
It's one-nil to Chelsea!"

1468
01:14:47.166 --> 01:14:48.333
(Crowd cheering)

1469
01:14:48.416 --> 01:14:50.791
"Benfica denied at one end

1470
01:14:51.666 --> 01:14:53.250
and immediately at the other..."

1471
01:14:55.083 --> 01:14:58.833
CHELSEA
EUROPA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 2013

1472
01:15:05.083 --> 01:15:08.625
"But over the summer,
Rafa left the team,"

1473
01:15:08.791 --> 01:15:11.083
Mourinho came and the situation changed.

1474
01:15:12.375 --> 01:15:14.125
(Photographers talking)

1475
01:15:14.458 --> 01:15:16.916
"Again, my first months,
everything that was written

1476
01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:18.416
and the perception"

1477
01:15:18.666 --> 01:15:21.791
of my place in the team, meant he didn't
see me as first-choice striker.

1478
01:15:23.708 --> 01:15:26.500
Whether he wasn't such a happy guy

1479
01:15:26.875 --> 01:15:27.958
at Chelsea

1480
01:15:28.250 --> 01:15:31.416
or whether it was just his personality,
he didn't fit

1481
01:15:31.500 --> 01:15:34.541
in the Chelsea dynamic.

1482
01:15:35.666 --> 01:15:38.375
Does he have a future? Yes he does.

1483
01:15:39.041 --> 01:15:41.541
He has a contract,
he is a good professional.

1484
01:15:42.583 --> 01:15:45.833
Obviously, we want him
to score more goals.

1485
01:15:46.541 --> 01:15:47.750
He did his job.

1486
01:15:48.958 --> 01:15:50.125
He wasn't...

1487
01:15:50.375 --> 01:15:51.708
He wasn't a flop.

1488
01:15:52.375 --> 01:15:54.208
People often like to say:

1489
01:15:54.291 --> 01:15:56.000
"This guy or the other is a flop."

1490
01:15:56.125 --> 01:15:57.333
He's not a flop.

1491
01:15:57.791 --> 01:16:00.375
A flop doesn't win titles,
a flop doesn't score goals.

1492
01:16:00.833 --> 01:16:04.166
I see him as a big game player.

1493
01:16:04.541 --> 01:16:06.541
(Crowd cheering)

1494
01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:08.291
On a personal level,

1495
01:16:08.916 --> 01:16:12.291
I think there are many moments
and periods.

1496
01:16:12.625 --> 01:16:14.125
It's true they aren't regular,

1497
01:16:14.208 --> 01:16:16.791
but periods at Chelsea
when I maybe played

1498
01:16:16.875 --> 01:16:18.458
"the best football I've ever played.

1499
01:16:18.916 --> 01:16:21.333
But they are short periods.
What I never achieved

1500
01:16:21.500 --> 01:16:23.166
at Chelsea was consistency.

1501
01:16:23.625 --> 01:16:25.416
And that's unforgivable at a big club."

1502
01:16:26.875 --> 01:16:28.541
I thought Fernando would give us...

1503
01:16:31.375 --> 01:16:32.375
a bit more.

1504
01:16:32.666 --> 01:16:34.750
You come from averaging 15 or 20 goals

1505
01:16:34.833 --> 01:16:36.708
and average seven or eight.

1506
01:16:37.666 --> 01:16:39.708
It's reality and you have to accept it.

1507
01:16:39.791 --> 01:16:42.166
But I don't doubt myself,
I doubt that I can do it

1508
01:16:42.333 --> 01:16:44.666
in that place,
because maybe it's not my place.

1509
01:16:50.750 --> 01:16:53.708
"I accept and understand
that it's best to put an end to it.

1510
01:16:54.500 --> 01:16:56.958
That's the first time...

1511
01:16:57.500 --> 01:17:00.750
the possibility
of going to Atlético appears.

1512
01:17:00.833 --> 01:17:03.250
At least I start listening.

1513
01:17:05.875 --> 01:17:08.791
But I had a feeling

1514
01:17:08.875 --> 01:17:11.458
that they wouldn't let me go
to Atlético from Chelsea."

1515
01:17:21.375 --> 01:17:25.125
2014. FERNANDO TORRES
SIGNS FOR AC MILAN

1516
01:17:25.208 --> 01:17:28.333
"EL NIÑO" LEAVES STAMFORD BRIDGE
AFTER WINNING

1517
01:17:28.416 --> 01:17:32.291
A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE,
A EUROPA LEAGUE AND AN FA CUP

1518
01:17:38.083 --> 01:17:41.416
(ANTONIO SANZ)
"Milan was almost an escape.

1519
01:17:42.333 --> 01:17:44.458
He wanted the return to Atleti,

1520
01:17:44.541 --> 01:17:47.250
but the path wasn't direct.
The path"

1521
01:17:47.416 --> 01:17:49.833
had to go via somewhere else,

1522
01:17:50.416 --> 01:17:52.083
and that took us to Milan.

1523
01:17:52.250 --> 01:17:54.291
Why not try Italy?

1524
01:17:56.000 --> 01:17:58.958
-"I started in a home game
against Juventus, we lost,

1525
01:17:59.041 --> 01:18:00.916
but I felt good.

1526
01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:03.833
The next day, I scored my first goal,
it looks like it's going

1527
01:18:04.083 --> 01:18:07.625
how it should be, but from there,
it all goes downhill.

1528
01:18:07.791 --> 01:18:09.625
The manager subs me off in every match

1529
01:18:09.708 --> 01:18:11.666
and I start to see
that it's not all as real

1530
01:18:11.750 --> 01:18:13.333
as I had thought.

1531
01:18:13.500 --> 01:18:15.041
As he had said, in fact.

1532
01:18:15.125 --> 01:18:17.125
I knew it wouldn't last long.

1533
01:18:22.166 --> 01:18:23.416
There have been times,

1534
01:18:23.958 --> 01:18:25.708
especially in my final years,

1535
01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:28.000
when I was tired of football."

1536
01:18:28.625 --> 01:18:31.625
I was lacking something to motivate me,

1537
01:18:31.708 --> 01:18:34.166
difficult circumstances to overcome.

1538
01:18:34.791 --> 01:18:37.958
That's why, when I had the option
of returning to Atlético, it was clear.

1539
01:18:39.083 --> 01:18:40.750
And for me, again,

1540
01:18:40.833 --> 01:18:45.166
it was like a life jacket
in the middle of the ocean.

1541
01:18:45.333 --> 01:18:47.833
(Epic music)

1542
01:18:51.625 --> 01:18:55.458
4 JANUARY 2015
"EL NIÑO" RETURNS HOME

1543
01:18:55.875 --> 01:18:56.958
I'm here.

1544
01:18:57.083 --> 01:18:58.458
-Have you seen the stands?

1545
01:18:58.958 --> 01:18:59.958
-I've seen photos,

1546
01:19:00.041 --> 01:19:01.958
"but I don't know
whether to believe them."

1547
01:19:02.583 --> 01:19:04.958
When you get to the centre,
daddy will turn

1548
01:19:05.041 --> 01:19:07.208
and you have to run as fast as you can,

1549
01:19:08.250 --> 01:19:10.250
like a bullet, to where mummy is.

1550
01:19:12.666 --> 01:19:14.916
(MEGAPHONE) Fernando!

1551
01:19:15.291 --> 01:19:16.416
(CROWD) Torres!

1552
01:19:16.500 --> 01:19:19.083
(FERNANDO)
"The Atlético my grandad told me about,

1553
01:19:19.208 --> 01:19:22.375
the one I fell in love with
without having seen a match,

1554
01:19:22.791 --> 01:19:25.666
was an Atlético of symbols, of moments,

1555
01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:27.583
of special names

1556
01:19:27.666 --> 01:19:29.666
for some reasons
or others in the club...

1557
01:19:30.500 --> 01:19:33.583
The kids that were younger than 10...

1558
01:19:34.541 --> 01:19:36.083
would never have seen me play."

1559
01:19:36.250 --> 01:19:37.791
-Fernando!

1560
01:19:38.083 --> 01:19:41.875
-"And for me, that situation means
that their parents,

1561
01:19:41.958 --> 01:19:43.375
grandparents, aunts, uncles

1562
01:19:43.458 --> 01:19:45.583
or older siblings will have talked
about me

1563
01:19:45.958 --> 01:19:47.458
at some point.

1564
01:19:47.750 --> 01:19:49.458
And that makes me feel

1565
01:19:49.666 --> 01:19:50.875
incredibly proud

1566
01:19:51.375 --> 01:19:53.958
because, for me,
that's what Atlético is about."

1567
01:19:54.666 --> 01:19:57.458
(Cheering)

1568
01:19:59.750 --> 01:20:03.708
Amazing, amazing... Emotional...

1569
01:20:03.875 --> 01:20:06.791
He was born in Atlético Madrid,

1570
01:20:06.875 --> 01:20:09.166
he has been
one of the most important pillars

1571
01:20:09.250 --> 01:20:12.416
of Atlético Madrid in the last...

1572
01:20:12.625 --> 01:20:14.541
"I don't know how many years.
It puts him

1573
01:20:14.625 --> 01:20:17.791
in a different place,
but because he has a gift.

1574
01:20:23.125 --> 01:20:25.791
-It wasn't a presentation,
it was getting back together."

1575
01:20:26.291 --> 01:20:28.333
We could have waited 40 years,

1576
01:20:29.375 --> 01:20:31.333
but when the time came,

1577
01:20:31.541 --> 01:20:34.458
nobody could miss it.
That's why it filled the stadium.

1578
01:20:34.583 --> 01:20:37.375
I didn't expect
so many people to be there,

1579
01:20:38.083 --> 01:20:41.291
the stadium was full and...
I got really emotional.

1580
01:20:52.541 --> 01:20:54.125
He arrived, filled the stadium...

1581
01:20:55.416 --> 01:20:56.541
"scored...

1582
01:20:56.708 --> 01:20:58.041
two goals in the Bernabéu,

1583
01:20:58.625 --> 01:21:00.416
eliminated Real Madrid from the cup,

1584
01:21:01.416 --> 01:21:03.291
scored again against Barcelona,

1585
01:21:03.375 --> 01:21:05.916
in another cup elimination match...

1586
01:21:06.958 --> 01:21:07.958
He was so motivated,

1587
01:21:08.791 --> 01:21:10.250
so hungry and so excited

1588
01:21:10.541 --> 01:21:11.833
to have come back to Atleti.

1589
01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:13.208
He started like a shot."

1590
01:21:15.666 --> 01:21:16.833
Unfortunately,

1591
01:21:17.250 --> 01:21:19.041
later the manager saw it differently.

1592
01:21:20.250 --> 01:21:22.333
We've always tried to think

1593
01:21:23.500 --> 01:21:26.625
about doing
what we believe is best for the team.

1594
01:21:26.708 --> 01:21:31.625
We always told him we weren't bringing
the idol of the team

1595
01:21:32.583 --> 01:21:34.916
or of the people,
we were bringing the footballer

1596
01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:36.541
"the team needed

1597
01:21:36.625 --> 01:21:38.333
and, obviously, I always acted

1598
01:21:38.541 --> 01:21:40.833
in relation to how I felt.
What I believed

1599
01:21:41.416 --> 01:21:43.625
the team needed."

1600
01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:45.916
(CHILD) Torres!
-Torres, legend!

1601
01:21:47.250 --> 01:21:48.333
-OK.
-A kiss?

1602
01:21:48.708 --> 01:21:49.750
A kiss!

1603
01:21:49.916 --> 01:21:52.958
-"I've always thought that Simeone
didn't end up accepting him

1604
01:21:53.083 --> 01:21:56.500
and that created a bit of jealousy
because ultimately, Simeone

1605
01:21:56.583 --> 01:21:58.000
was and had become again..."

1606
01:21:58.875 --> 01:22:00.000
king of the castle there.

1607
01:22:00.291 --> 01:22:01.541
And he deserved it.

1608
01:22:01.625 --> 01:22:04.750
He was the only alpha male there.

1609
01:22:05.250 --> 01:22:07.833
And suddenly he saw that there was

1610
01:22:07.916 --> 01:22:10.166
a new element for him,

1611
01:22:10.958 --> 01:22:13.958
"that was Torres, who of course,

1612
01:22:14.708 --> 01:22:15.708
he knew in a way,

1613
01:22:15.791 --> 01:22:17.666
he had to treat in such a way."

1614
01:22:18.458 --> 01:22:20.333
(FERNANDO)
"I know him well and I knew"

1615
01:22:20.541 --> 01:22:21.666
he expected a lot of me,

1616
01:22:22.083 --> 01:22:24.625
he was going to test me,
I wouldn't get anything for free,

1617
01:22:25.166 --> 01:22:27.666
but he liked me as a footballer.

1618
01:22:27.916 --> 01:22:30.625
(Crowd cheering)

1619
01:22:30.708 --> 01:22:33.708
"The final of the Champions League
in Milan came around,

1620
01:22:34.458 --> 01:22:37.458
which was the most important match
of my career at the time."

1621
01:22:37.791 --> 01:22:39.750
(COMMENTATOR)
"...It will be... Look, look!"

1622
01:22:39.833 --> 01:22:42.750
Goal by Ramos!

1623
01:22:42.833 --> 01:22:46.500
(FERNANDO) "For my whole life,
I've avoided the idea"

1624
01:22:46.708 --> 01:22:48.250
that many Atlético players have,

1625
01:22:48.333 --> 01:22:50.708
which is always blaming the referee
for acting

1626
01:22:51.666 --> 01:22:52.791
in favour of Real Madrid.

1627
01:22:52.875 --> 01:22:54.916
I've always avoided that,
I think it is...

1628
01:22:55.916 --> 01:22:58.125
something that holds back the club.

1629
01:22:58.583 --> 01:23:00.583
But I lost a Champions League final

1630
01:23:01.083 --> 01:23:03.666
against that opponent
from an offside goal.

1631
01:23:04.333 --> 01:23:08.208
"We have to keep going and not think
that it was because of external forces."

1632
01:23:08.333 --> 01:23:10.583
We didn't lose in Milan
because of the referee.

1633
01:23:10.750 --> 01:23:13.083
We had time to make a comeback,
and we didn't do it.

1634
01:23:13.291 --> 01:23:15.791
We could have done a bit more,
we were better.

1635
01:23:16.166 --> 01:23:18.041
"But it wasn't enough to win.

1636
01:23:18.500 --> 01:23:20.625
Juanfran...

1637
01:23:20.708 --> 01:23:22.500
Goal, goal, goal, goal, goal!

1638
01:23:22.583 --> 01:23:24.958
It's over, it's over!

1639
01:23:25.041 --> 01:23:26.916
It will be decided on penalties!"

1640
01:23:27.166 --> 01:23:28.958
(Dramatic music)

1641
01:23:38.166 --> 01:23:40.291
"Here comes Cristiano.
-Cristiano to win

1642
01:23:40.416 --> 01:23:42.500
the cup against Oblak.
Like for a free kick,

1643
01:23:42.625 --> 01:23:43.958
open legs, breathing...

1644
01:23:44.041 --> 01:23:46.291
Cristiano shoots... Goal, goal, goal!
-Goal!

1645
01:23:46.708 --> 01:23:48.333
-I was chosen to take

1646
01:23:48.583 --> 01:23:49.708
the fifth penalty,

1647
01:23:50.791 --> 01:23:51.875
that was never taken."

1648
01:23:52.708 --> 01:23:54.916
The... walk from the centre of the pitch

1649
01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:58.125
to the penalty spot is very long,
I can tell you.

1650
01:23:58.875 --> 01:24:01.666
In the final in Milan I didn't have to
experience that walk.

1651
01:24:01.750 --> 01:24:03.500
It would have been very different

1652
01:24:03.833 --> 01:24:06.416
if it was to win
or if it was to not lose.

1653
01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:12.375
"Maybe, if we had won,
it would have been my last match.

1654
01:24:12.750 --> 01:24:16.041
That's what I felt about it. Winning
the Champions League with Atleti,"

1655
01:24:16.750 --> 01:24:18.333
something nobody has done,

1656
01:24:19.291 --> 01:24:22.041
is something you think about.
What better final than that?

1657
01:24:26.125 --> 01:24:29.333
"They were different tears
than those I'd had before.

1658
01:24:29.791 --> 01:24:32.000
At the time, all I knew,"

1659
01:24:32.541 --> 01:24:33.833
all I could feel

1660
01:24:33.916 --> 01:24:36.541
is that the only place
I wanted to be was with Atlético.

1661
01:24:37.083 --> 01:24:38.458
And it was in defeat...

1662
01:24:39.333 --> 01:24:41.416
where I felt that in the strongest way.

1663
01:24:42.041 --> 01:24:43.583
"That's why this club is different".

1664
01:24:48.375 --> 01:24:49.750
-"I asked him:"

1665
01:24:50.708 --> 01:24:52.083
"Why don't we go now?

1666
01:24:53.166 --> 01:24:54.750
I don't want to see you suffer more."

1667
01:24:57.250 --> 01:25:01.083
And he said:
"No way I'm leaving here now."

1668
01:25:01.208 --> 01:25:04.166
We had a deal with the club owners

1669
01:25:04.291 --> 01:25:05.750
for a contract,

1670
01:25:06.500 --> 01:25:08.208
the coach changed it,

1671
01:25:09.750 --> 01:25:11.500
"with the consent of the owners,

1672
01:25:13.208 --> 01:25:14.333
and Fernando ate it up.

1673
01:25:15.541 --> 01:25:16.541
And he stayed."

1674
01:25:17.958 --> 01:25:20.416
(TORRES) "The biggest thing
was being where I...

1675
01:25:21.208 --> 01:25:22.541
felt I had to be."

1676
01:25:23.000 --> 01:25:25.541
The conditions weren't important,

1677
01:25:25.666 --> 01:25:28.333
I had that responsibility to the people.

1678
01:25:32.250 --> 01:25:35.458
Fernando was a substitute again,
when he had been the starting nine

1679
01:25:35.750 --> 01:25:37.541
during the last part of the season

1680
01:25:37.625 --> 01:25:39.708
and after he had earned it
and scored goals.

1681
01:25:40.916 --> 01:25:43.333
His reward was the bench.

1682
01:25:46.875 --> 01:25:47.875
-"I never asked

1683
01:25:48.041 --> 01:25:50.875
Simeone for an explanation
because I know him well.

1684
01:25:51.125 --> 01:25:53.166
I don't know if it was personal

1685
01:25:53.708 --> 01:25:56.458
or professional or a bit of both."

1686
01:25:57.041 --> 01:25:59.625
I understand the complexities there are

1687
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:03.458
for a coach to manage...

1688
01:26:04.125 --> 01:26:05.625
an arrival like mine.

1689
01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:09.625
(SIMEONE) "The club idol
obviously creates a lot of...

1690
01:26:10.666 --> 01:26:12.416
expectations, a lot of..."

1691
01:26:13.666 --> 01:26:15.583
attention in the media,

1692
01:26:15.875 --> 01:26:19.916
but as coaches, we have to always think

1693
01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:21.708
"about what the club needs.

1694
01:26:21.916 --> 01:26:25.041
-There was a moment
when everything spilled over.

1695
01:26:25.958 --> 01:26:30.333
It spilled over and I think in his mind,
I was never the starting forward."

1696
01:26:30.875 --> 01:26:33.916
You can accept the reality
that maybe you can't start

1697
01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:36.416
all 40 games of the season,

1698
01:26:37.041 --> 01:26:38.791
but I could never accept

1699
01:26:38.958 --> 01:26:41.958
that I wasn't even called upon.

1700
01:26:44.375 --> 01:26:47.375
-"Like all strikers,
Vietto isn't scoring, he says nothing"

1701
01:26:48.083 --> 01:26:52.500
and they criticise him. Gameiro
scores few goals and they criticise him.

1702
01:26:52.583 --> 01:26:55.083
Fernando scores few goals,
but he's the club hero.

1703
01:26:55.208 --> 01:26:57.625
So people work on feelings,

1704
01:26:57.708 --> 01:26:59.708
that's clear, and that's why you manage.

1705
01:26:59.791 --> 01:27:01.083
He thinks...

1706
01:27:01.750 --> 01:27:03.958
what he's doing is best for the club.

1707
01:27:04.750 --> 01:27:07.958
And the only way to answer
is by working.

1708
01:27:09.125 --> 01:27:10.708
"If you don't play, work harder

1709
01:27:10.791 --> 01:27:12.375
and without frowning. Smiling,

1710
01:27:12.458 --> 01:27:14.250
being positive for the group

1711
01:27:14.375 --> 01:27:16.750
from wherever I am.
It could be on the bench,

1712
01:27:16.833 --> 01:27:18.291
it could be in training,

1713
01:27:18.583 --> 01:27:20.791
wherever I have to be."

1714
01:27:21.666 --> 01:27:25.125
It was the last year in the Calderón
and I couldn't let them down.

1715
01:27:25.625 --> 01:27:28.333
I had to be there, whatever that meant.

1716
01:27:28.791 --> 01:27:32.208
21 MAY 2017 LAST MATCH
IN THE VICENTE CALDERÓN STADIUM

1717
01:27:33.458 --> 01:27:34.458
"For Fernando Torres"

1718
01:27:34.625 --> 01:27:36.166
it would be a perfect epilogue

1719
01:27:36.250 --> 01:27:37.666
at the Vicente Calderón stadium

1720
01:27:37.750 --> 01:27:39.958
to play the last match there.

1721
01:27:40.125 --> 01:27:41.625
If there was a was a player

1722
01:27:41.708 --> 01:27:43.750
who had to tie up 50 years of history

1723
01:27:43.833 --> 01:27:45.208
with a brace in that game

1724
01:27:45.541 --> 01:27:47.291
"that player is Fernando Torres Sanz,

1725
01:27:47.375 --> 01:27:49.750
a one-team player,
who played for many clubs,

1726
01:27:50.250 --> 01:27:51.458
but one team."

1727
01:27:51.583 --> 01:27:53.833
(Cheering)

1728
01:27:55.250 --> 01:27:57.541
-"The last game in the Calderón
is on the level

1729
01:27:57.666 --> 01:28:00.916
of the great games
and the great finals I have played,

1730
01:28:01.375 --> 01:28:03.583
because the Calderón had been

1731
01:28:03.666 --> 01:28:06.541
the theatre I dreamed of acting on,

1732
01:28:07.958 --> 01:28:08.958
where I went...

1733
01:28:10.041 --> 01:28:12.000
to so many games as a fan,

1734
01:28:12.083 --> 01:28:14.000
where I made my debut,
fulfilling a dream,

1735
01:28:15.166 --> 01:28:16.291
and I knew it was the last.

1736
01:28:16.458 --> 01:28:18.666
It was going to end
and there would be no more."

1737
01:28:19.750 --> 01:28:21.416
(Chanting)

1738
01:28:21.625 --> 01:28:23.416
"If we live off the symbols"

1739
01:28:23.500 --> 01:28:25.541
and the emotions and the feelings,

1740
01:28:26.208 --> 01:28:27.541
there they went...

1741
01:28:28.083 --> 01:28:30.750
all the feelings of the last 50 years.

1742
01:28:31.041 --> 01:28:32.125
(Cheering)

1743
01:28:32.791 --> 01:28:34.333
(Epic music)

1744
01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:44.041
(Crowd shouting)

1745
01:28:44.166 --> 01:28:47.500
(RF) 2 March 2017

1746
01:28:51.458 --> 01:28:52.458
(Whistle)

1747
01:29:07.125 --> 01:29:11.166
(Shouting)

1748
01:29:11.250 --> 01:29:13.125
Get back, please!

1749
01:29:14.208 --> 01:29:15.375
Come on, this is bad!

1750
01:29:20.875 --> 01:29:22.166
Now we're down to ten!

1751
01:29:24.208 --> 01:29:25.541
-God dammit!

1752
01:29:27.291 --> 01:29:29.791
-It was clear something was wrong
by the reaction

1753
01:29:30.333 --> 01:29:32.166
of the people around him.

1754
01:29:32.291 --> 01:29:34.708
I immediately thought about his family.

1755
01:29:34.833 --> 01:29:37.666
-"I got chills..."

1756
01:29:37.875 --> 01:29:40.083
A minute went by, then another

1757
01:29:40.166 --> 01:29:43.458
and he wasn't responding...
I said: "My God!

1758
01:29:43.833 --> 01:29:45.666
Don't say that now, playing football,

1759
01:29:45.791 --> 01:29:47.291
you have a tragedy."

1760
01:29:48.458 --> 01:29:51.416
I haven't been able to watch it.
And I won't.

1761
01:29:52.625 --> 01:29:54.250
But it was bad.

1762
01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:57.291
And like I say,
I didn't see him unconscious!

1763
01:29:57.375 --> 01:30:00.416
I haven't seen it...
We have it, but I don't watch it.

1764
01:30:02.041 --> 01:30:05.500
(IVÁN) "I ran to the dressing room,
I got the phone and straight away...

1765
01:30:06.958 --> 01:30:08.166
I spoke to Olalla.

1766
01:30:08.625 --> 01:30:10.083
I don't think I can talk about it.

1767
01:30:13.416 --> 01:30:16.166
(Soft music)

1768
01:30:23.791 --> 01:30:26.125
It was a tremendous scare...

1769
01:30:27.583 --> 01:30:29.833
The only thing that entered my mind...

1770
01:30:32.625 --> 01:30:33.916
was to see him...

1771
01:30:34.625 --> 01:30:36.666
to see him... breathe,

1772
01:30:37.250 --> 01:30:39.083
because it was really scary.

1773
01:30:39.208 --> 01:30:41.958
I was talking to Olalla

1774
01:30:42.041 --> 01:30:44.708
and I was saying:
"It's going to be OK...

1775
01:30:45.291 --> 01:30:46.583
It's over, he's fine."

1776
01:30:47.458 --> 01:30:51.333
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE
FOR YOUR KIND WORDS

1777
01:30:51.416 --> 01:30:55.875
IT WAS JUST A SCARE. I HOPE
TO COME BACK VERY SOON! 3 MARCH 2017

1778
01:30:56.041 --> 01:30:57.250
(TORRES) "All good.

1779
01:30:57.416 --> 01:30:59.041
-Are you excited to train again?

1780
01:30:59.125 --> 01:31:00.875
-Of course, I want to get there now

1781
01:31:00.958 --> 01:31:03.583
and see my teammates...
and start training.

1782
01:31:03.708 --> 01:31:05.916
"They are moments of personal growth,

1783
01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:08.583
to feel cared for and respected
in your profession"

1784
01:31:09.416 --> 01:31:10.416
and at the same time,

1785
01:31:11.291 --> 01:31:12.708
feeling that...

1786
01:31:13.583 --> 01:31:15.208
that in life there are priorities

1787
01:31:15.291 --> 01:31:18.791
and football certainly isn't
the most important thing

1788
01:31:19.458 --> 01:31:22.291
(Soft music)

1789
01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:42.000
-"Atlético's current competitive level,

1790
01:31:42.083 --> 01:31:44.166
having such a demanding coach,

1791
01:31:44.333 --> 01:31:47.416
Fernando's charisma:
all of that made it

1792
01:31:47.666 --> 01:31:50.166
a very awkward situation for everybody,

1793
01:31:50.250 --> 01:31:52.375
having someone
as charismatic as Fernando

1794
01:31:52.458 --> 01:31:54.375
who wasn't constantly playing
in the team.

1795
01:31:54.666 --> 01:31:59.291
That could end up harming
the relationship between Diego and him

1796
01:31:59.416 --> 01:32:02.333
that's why I got them together
in my house and in that meeting

1797
01:32:03.250 --> 01:32:04.833
we agreed that it was best

1798
01:32:05.000 --> 01:32:07.666
for the three parties
to separate again for a while."

1799
01:32:09.791 --> 01:32:13.666
Well, that meeting wasn't
exactly like that.

1800
01:32:13.750 --> 01:32:15.708
That meeting didn't come about

1801
01:32:15.791 --> 01:32:19.375
"because the club thought it wouldn't
be good to have me on the bench.

1802
01:32:20.125 --> 01:32:22.708
It's for me to decide

1803
01:32:22.791 --> 01:32:25.333
if it's a good situation for me,
if I am OK

1804
01:32:25.833 --> 01:32:28.208
with being a player or hero who ends

1805
01:32:28.375 --> 01:32:31.083
his last years on the bench
playing less and less,

1806
01:32:31.416 --> 01:32:32.958
being left out

1807
01:32:33.500 --> 01:32:35.291
and fading away, but it's not the club"

1808
01:32:35.500 --> 01:32:39.041
who tried to soften it
and help with that transition,

1809
01:32:39.125 --> 01:32:40.583
not at all. That meeting

1810
01:32:40.750 --> 01:32:43.916
came about because of an unfortunate
press conference with Simeone,

1811
01:32:44.041 --> 01:32:47.583
"where, for the first time,
he gave a bad response

1812
01:32:47.666 --> 01:32:50.583
and caused an awkward situation
for the fans."

1813
01:32:50.791 --> 01:32:53.000
I would like to know if you are willing

1814
01:32:53.083 --> 01:32:55.916
to try and keep Fernando Torres
for one more season.

1815
01:32:56.000 --> 01:32:57.083
-No.

1816
01:33:00.333 --> 01:33:01.833
That's why the meeting happened.

1817
01:33:02.125 --> 01:33:03.916
It was a meeting I went to listen

1818
01:33:04.916 --> 01:33:09.000
because I thought I was going to get
an apology or an explanation,

1819
01:33:09.333 --> 01:33:10.416
but it wasn't that.

1820
01:33:10.583 --> 01:33:13.958
We shared our opinions
with the club owner,

1821
01:33:14.041 --> 01:33:16.625
with Miguel Ángel,
each expressed our point of view.

1822
01:33:17.208 --> 01:33:19.458
There isn't one right opinion
and one wrong one.

1823
01:33:19.666 --> 01:33:21.375
It was a very serious chat.

1824
01:33:22.375 --> 01:33:24.166
And when there are serious chats...

1825
01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:29.500
We could leave together
and hug each other.

1826
01:33:29.625 --> 01:33:32.000
"Because he was honest
with what he thought about me

1827
01:33:32.083 --> 01:33:34.250
and I was honest
about what I thought about him.

1828
01:33:34.458 --> 01:33:36.500
So I think from that situation,

1829
01:33:36.875 --> 01:33:39.541
it brings us to where we are now

1830
01:33:40.250 --> 01:33:43.041
able to talk and look at each other
because we held nothing back"

1831
01:33:43.541 --> 01:33:46.583
and, obviously, we were always as direct

1832
01:33:47.333 --> 01:33:48.625
as we needed to be.

1833
01:33:48.750 --> 01:33:51.750
Simeone was my teammate.
First he was my hero...

1834
01:33:52.625 --> 01:33:53.708
Forza atleti!

1835
01:33:53.791 --> 01:33:55.958
(CHILDREN) Ole, ole, ole.
Cholo Simeone!

1836
01:33:56.083 --> 01:33:57.750
-"...then my teammate and coach,

1837
01:33:57.833 --> 01:34:00.416
and I understand how uncomfortable
that relationship is

1838
01:34:00.500 --> 01:34:02.916
from his point of view."
-"I think..."

1839
01:34:03.083 --> 01:34:05.041
Fernando was the most generous

1840
01:34:05.125 --> 01:34:07.208
because he understood
that if he continued,

1841
01:34:07.333 --> 01:34:09.041
"it could possibly become

1842
01:34:09.166 --> 01:34:10.708
a tense situation.

1843
01:34:10.833 --> 01:34:14.250
-Fernando didn't want
to be a problem for Atlético"

1844
01:34:14.375 --> 01:34:16.125
and that's why he decided to leave.

1845
01:34:16.750 --> 01:34:20.541
(Soft music)

1846
01:34:27.416 --> 01:34:28.750
"I think it is...

1847
01:34:29.083 --> 01:34:30.125
The best moment.

1848
01:34:30.416 --> 01:34:32.791
There is never a good moment
to say goodbye, but...

1849
01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:36.458
accepting the reality of my situation,
you've seen how much

1850
01:34:36.625 --> 01:34:39.916
I'm playing, which is very little,

1851
01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:42.458
and maybe it's time to give way...

1852
01:34:43.458 --> 01:34:44.458
to others, right?

1853
01:34:46.166 --> 01:34:48.666
I'm motivated and I feel I can play,

1854
01:34:48.750 --> 01:34:51.458
and that I can do it well,
I can bring a lot

1855
01:34:51.541 --> 01:34:53.750
and I want to keep playing,

1856
01:34:54.291 --> 01:34:56.916
but maybe now with Atlético
I'm not producing

1857
01:34:57.583 --> 01:34:59.541
and maybe it's for the best."

1858
01:35:09.333 --> 01:35:13.250
ONE DAY TO RETIREMENT

1859
01:35:14.291 --> 01:35:16.416
(Shouting and clapping)

1860
01:35:16.500 --> 01:35:18.416
FINAL TRAINING SESSION

1861
01:35:20.583 --> 01:35:23.750
"I think what has allowed me to spend
so many years at an elite level

1862
01:35:24.500 --> 01:35:25.708
is my way of competing.

1863
01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:28.083
I was never the best or the fastest

1864
01:35:28.166 --> 01:35:30.250
or the strongest,
or the best technically

1865
01:35:30.458 --> 01:35:32.125
or the best shooter, but ultimately,

1866
01:35:32.250 --> 01:35:33.583
football is competition."

1867
01:35:34.166 --> 01:35:36.041
(Shouting and whistles)

1868
01:35:37.166 --> 01:35:39.583
"And once I arrived in Japan, I realised

1869
01:35:39.666 --> 01:35:43.041
that was what wasn't allowing me
to change my mindset.

1870
01:35:44.041 --> 01:35:46.458
I've never been prepared to not compete.

1871
01:35:47.666 --> 01:35:49.916
And you realise that
when you experience it.

1872
01:35:50.791 --> 01:35:53.166
I was looking for precisely
what I didn't need.

1873
01:35:54.625 --> 01:35:55.958
And for me, that is competing.

1874
01:35:56.208 --> 01:35:58.750
Wanting to compete with people
who are better than you.

1875
01:35:59.000 --> 01:36:00.000
That pushes you

1876
01:36:00.083 --> 01:36:03.500
to the full potential you have inside
and that you often don't know."

1877
01:36:06.833 --> 01:36:09.875
(Shouting in Japanese)

1878
01:36:10.416 --> 01:36:14.958
(SPEAKING IN JAPANESE)

1879
01:36:15.875 --> 01:36:16.875
-Score a goal.

1880
01:36:17.916 --> 01:36:19.541
Fernando's aim is to score a goal.

1881
01:36:20.416 --> 01:36:23.083
(Shouting in Japanese)

1882
01:36:27.583 --> 01:36:28.625
(Crowd shouting)

1883
01:36:28.708 --> 01:36:31.416
(COMMENTATOR)
"Atlético Madrid are once again

1884
01:36:31.500 --> 01:36:34.541
champions of the UEFA Europa League,
Ricardo!

1885
01:36:35.000 --> 01:36:37.083
-17 years after

1886
01:36:37.500 --> 01:36:40.833
his debut
with the Atlético Madrid first team,

1887
01:36:41.083 --> 01:36:42.583
Fernando Torres,

1888
01:36:42.666 --> 01:36:44.791
Leaving for England,

1889
01:36:44.875 --> 01:36:47.458
playing in Italy,
being a European champion,

1890
01:36:47.583 --> 01:36:51.208
winning this very competition...
Once again, 17 years

1891
01:36:51.416 --> 01:36:53.791
after bursting onto the stage
with the shirt

1892
01:36:53.875 --> 01:36:54.958
of his beloved club,

1893
01:36:55.166 --> 01:36:59.375
Torres lifts the cup
with Atlético Madrid!

1894
01:36:59.458 --> 01:37:01.791
Congratulations, colchoneros, yes!

1895
01:37:02.333 --> 01:37:04.125
Yet again, that makes three,

1896
01:37:04.458 --> 01:37:06.791
you are champions
of the UEFA Europa League!

1897
01:37:07.041 --> 01:37:08.625
-It's a story with a happy ending.

1898
01:37:08.833 --> 01:37:11.750
Torres wanted to leave Atlético Madrid
with a cup,

1899
01:37:11.833 --> 01:37:13.583
now he's got it. It's going with him.

1900
01:37:14.083 --> 01:37:16.750
A legend who will whole the respect
of the colchoneros

1901
01:37:16.833 --> 01:37:19.125
for the rest of his life
and another episode..."

1902
01:37:19.833 --> 01:37:23.291
(FERNANDO) Twenty-two years ago,
I think, I was over there...

1903
01:37:24.291 --> 01:37:26.541
I was an 11-year-old kid,

1904
01:37:27.000 --> 01:37:29.791
and I came to see the Atleti of 96,

1905
01:37:29.875 --> 01:37:31.083
who won the double,

1906
01:37:31.625 --> 01:37:33.000
and I saw them lift the cup...

1907
01:37:33.500 --> 01:37:34.541
Just like Kiko!

1908
01:37:36.583 --> 01:37:39.458
(VOICE BREAKING) And I dreamed
about being here one day...

1909
01:37:40.708 --> 01:37:45.708
(Applause)

1910
01:37:51.250 --> 01:37:54.208
To all of the children who have dreams,

1911
01:37:54.666 --> 01:37:57.958
anything is possible, especially
if you support Atlético. "Forsa Atleti!"

1912
01:37:58.041 --> 01:38:01.250
(Cheering and applause)

1913
01:38:07.875 --> 01:38:12.458
FOUR DAYS LATER, THE NIÑO
SAYS GOODBYE TO THE ATLÉTICO FANS

1914
01:38:12.625 --> 01:38:15.541
(Crowd shouting)

1915
01:38:18.000 --> 01:38:19.375
(CROWD) Goal!

1916
01:38:21.666 --> 01:38:25.291
(Chanting)

1917
01:38:30.625 --> 01:38:33.041
(CROWD) Goal!

1918
01:38:36.041 --> 01:38:37.708
(FERNANDO) I'd like to start...

1919
01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:40.875
with all of those in the third tier...

1920
01:38:41.583 --> 01:38:44.333
(Applause)

1921
01:38:45.708 --> 01:38:46.750
Especially

1922
01:38:47.333 --> 01:38:50.208
to two people: Luis Aragonés,

1923
01:38:50.291 --> 01:38:51.625
who we all owe so much...

1924
01:38:53.125 --> 01:38:54.666
for showing us the way...

1925
01:38:54.833 --> 01:38:55.916
(Applause)

1926
01:38:56.833 --> 01:38:59.375
I'd also like to mention...

1927
01:39:00.458 --> 01:39:01.583
(SOBS) my grandad...,

1928
01:39:03.333 --> 01:39:04.791
(Applause)

1929
01:39:10.041 --> 01:39:13.416
who gave me the best gift you can give
a grandson: Making them an Atleti fan.

1930
01:39:17.083 --> 01:39:19.708
I don't know what I've done
to make you love me so much,

1931
01:39:19.791 --> 01:39:22.291
but you've made me
the happiest man in the world

1932
01:39:22.458 --> 01:39:25.166
(Applause)

1933
01:39:31.041 --> 01:39:35.833
(Distant chanting)

1934
01:39:37.958 --> 01:39:42.958
(Soft music)

1935
01:39:53.833 --> 01:39:57.416
(Spectators chanting)

1936
01:39:57.666 --> 01:40:01.750
TOSU (JAPAN)
23 AUGUST 2019

1937
01:40:02.666 --> 01:40:06.916
RETIREMENT DAY

1938
01:40:07.041 --> 01:40:09.125
(Fans chanting in Japanese)

1939
01:40:15.833 --> 01:40:18.333
(CROWD SINGING IN JAPANESE)

1940
01:40:49.125 --> 01:40:53.416
(Distant chanting)

1941
01:41:05.125 --> 01:41:07.583
♪ (CROWD) Fernando Torres!

1942
01:41:07.666 --> 01:41:09.041
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1943
01:41:09.125 --> 01:41:10.708
♪ Fernando Torres!

1944
01:41:10.833 --> 01:41:12.458
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1945
01:41:12.541 --> 01:41:14.291
♪ Fernando Torres!

1946
01:41:14.541 --> 01:41:18.125
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1947
01:41:18.375 --> 01:41:20.833
♪ Fernando Torres!

1948
01:41:20.916 --> 01:41:22.500
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1949
01:41:22.750 --> 01:41:24.333
♪ Fernando Torres!

1950
01:41:24.416 --> 01:41:25.708
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1951
01:41:25.833 --> 01:41:27.791
♪ Fernando Torres!

1952
01:41:28.750 --> 01:41:32.583
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1953
01:41:32.708 --> 01:41:35.333
♪ Fernando Torres!

1954
01:41:35.666 --> 01:41:36.916
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1955
01:41:37.000 --> 01:41:38.791
♪ Fernando Torres!

1956
01:41:38.875 --> 01:41:40.416
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1957
01:41:40.500 --> 01:41:42.208
♪ Fernando Torres!

1958
01:41:43.041 --> 01:41:45.083
♪ Na, na, na, na, na, na!

1959
01:41:46.916 --> 01:41:49.583
♪ Fernando Torres! ♪

1960
01:41:49.666 --> 01:41:51.375
(Epic music)

1961
01:41:57.166 --> 01:42:00.208
"There have been a few moments
when it has been difficult not to cry,

1962
01:42:01.833 --> 01:42:04.291
But today I don't feel sad.
I feel happy

1963
01:42:05.250 --> 01:42:07.500
and proud of everything I did.

1964
01:42:07.583 --> 01:42:10.208
Maybe in the next few days,
I'll realise that it's over"

1965
01:42:10.291 --> 01:42:12.708
and it'll be time to miss
everything around football,

1966
01:42:13.708 --> 01:42:15.041
but right now, I feel happy.

1967
01:42:18.416 --> 01:42:21.250
BROTHER,
AN ENTIRE SPORTING LIFE IN PARALLEL,

1968
01:42:21.333 --> 01:42:24.541
UNIQUE AND UNFORGETTABLE
MOMENTS, BUT ABOVE ALL, YOU AS A PERSON.

1969
01:42:24.833 --> 01:42:28.166
(TORRES) "Sometimes,
football players only focus on trophies,

1970
01:42:28.333 --> 01:42:32.041
I did in the past, I wanted to lift
as many trophies as possible

1971
01:42:32.125 --> 01:42:33.750
and play in the biggest games.

1972
01:42:33.916 --> 01:42:36.125
And now that the end is coming,

1973
01:42:36.375 --> 01:42:40.625
I look back, and the best thing
I achieved is the respect of everybody.

1974
01:42:42.208 --> 01:42:43.708
I feel really proud

1975
01:42:43.833 --> 01:42:46.416
of maybe giving something
back to football,

1976
01:42:46.500 --> 01:42:48.250
especially to Spanish football.

1977
01:42:49.416 --> 01:42:50.750
This is my biggest trophy.

1978
01:42:51.833 --> 01:42:54.166
I am the person I am today
thanks to football.

1979
01:43:10.333 --> 01:43:12.750
For my whole career, I've thought...,

1980
01:43:13.291 --> 01:43:15.375
when I leave football
and the years go by,

1981
01:43:15.750 --> 01:43:17.791
I would look back and have the trophies.

1982
01:43:20.000 --> 01:43:22.208
I've realised that I was wrong.

1983
01:43:22.875 --> 01:43:24.500
Trophies aren't the most important.

1984
01:43:26.041 --> 01:43:29.041
The most important moments
are the ones that make you feel

1985
01:43:29.166 --> 01:43:32.541
and you remember them at the level
of a World Cup or a Champions League."

1986
01:43:34.375 --> 01:43:36.375
(WOMAN) Come on, Fernando, go!

1987
01:43:36.583 --> 01:43:37.875
"Because I had my people.

1988
01:43:38.208 --> 01:43:40.291
My family and those
who supported me were there

1989
01:43:40.375 --> 01:43:43.208
when I went to the Calderón as a child,

1990
01:43:43.666 --> 01:43:46.791
the ones who comforted me
in the most difficult moments,

1991
01:43:47.541 --> 01:43:48.916
the ones who gave me

1992
01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:50.250
the Atlético Madrid scarf

1993
01:43:50.333 --> 01:43:53.291
as I toured the streets of Madrid
with the national team

1994
01:43:53.375 --> 01:43:57.291
and those who saw me as an Atlético
regardless of where I played

1995
01:43:57.375 --> 01:44:00.083
and the position both the club
and I found ourselves."

1996
01:44:11.291 --> 01:44:15.333
NOVEMBER 2019
VICENTE CALDERÓN STADIUM

1997
01:44:16.250 --> 01:44:19.291
"I was a hero in the dark times.

1998
01:44:20.000 --> 01:44:22.708
I had the responsibility and the luck
to carry the flag,

1999
01:44:22.833 --> 01:44:26.041
because I could be on the pitch,
but I felt everybody's support.

2000
01:44:26.958 --> 01:44:29.250
As I wasn't a hero in the winning times,

2001
01:44:29.500 --> 01:44:31.708
I didn't have to show anyone
I was a true Atlético."

2002
01:44:32.833 --> 01:44:37.833
(Epic music)

2003
01:44:41.791 --> 01:44:44.916
"I would like people to remember me
as an Atlético fan

2004
01:44:45.333 --> 01:44:49.083
who had a dream, chased it, achieved it

2005
01:44:49.625 --> 01:44:50.916
and had a happy ending.

2006
01:44:53.916 --> 01:44:55.958
I will always be linked to Atlético,

2007
01:44:56.875 --> 01:44:58.375
and I'll always be a fan.

2008
01:44:58.458 --> 01:45:00.083
I'll have my place in the stadium

2009
01:45:00.291 --> 01:45:01.291
and I'll come to watch.

2010
01:45:01.375 --> 01:45:04.333
I did what any of them would do.

2011
01:45:05.375 --> 01:45:06.583
One day it was my turn...

2012
01:45:06.916 --> 01:45:09.083
to go from the stands to the pitch

2013
01:45:09.416 --> 01:45:12.041
and I gave what I used to ask
players to give

2014
01:45:12.125 --> 01:45:15.250
when I was in the stands, what any

2015
01:45:15.833 --> 01:45:18.916
of the 55,000 fans who go every Sunday
to see their team would give.

2016
01:45:19.583 --> 01:45:21.250
I was lucky that it was me."

2017
01:46:55.375 --> 01:47:00.375
(Slow orchestral music)