Liverpool FC’s Fernando Torres looking forward to Atletico Madrid reunion

Fernando Torres in his Atletico Madrid days 320FERNANDO TORRES first set foot in the Vicente Calderon as a nine-year-old.Alongside his family, he visited Atletico Madrid's trophy room, and began a lifelong love affair with his home-town club. Torres has grown up loving football, but it was his grandfather Eulalio who nurtured his adoration for Atletico, never tiring of telling him just what it meant to be a part of the club. With that kind of influence, it was hard to imagine Torres ending up anywhere but Atletico, and he signed for them in 1995.After signing his first professional contract in 1999, injury held Torres back before finally making his senior Atletico debut in May 2001 at 17. A decade after that first visit to the Calderon, the young Torres had finally made it onto the pitch. But this was a very different Atletico Madrid to the one Eulalio had grown up with. Relegated to the Segunda Division for the first time since the 1930s in 2000, Atletico were at their lowest ever ebb. Torres would go on to score his first senior goal the following week, the winner at Albacete. But it would be a bittersweet occasion, as it wasn't enough to see Atletico promoted, as goal average denied them. The following season though, Torres scored six goals as Atletico won the Segunda Division and returned to the top flight, where he finally began to establish himself as an Atletico Madrid hero.If there is anything that devoted Torres to his fans more than his goals, it was his attitude.

Source: Liverpool_Echo