MILAN: Atletico Madrid forward Fernando Torres has called the Champions League final with Real Madrid the game of his life as he yearns for a first trophy with his boyhood club.
Torres made his debut for the Madrid team in 2001 after joining their youth setup as a child and later became captain before departing for Liverpool in 2007.
He returned to Atletico in January 2015, missing out on a glut of trophies between 2012-14 and their 4-1 defeat by Real in the 2014 Champions League final.
Although Torres won the Champions League with Chelsea and two European Championships and the World Cup with Spain, he said all those triumphs would pale by comparison to Atletico becoming kings of Europe.
“Without any doubt it’s the most important, special and lovely game of my life,” Torres told a news conference on Friday.
“Anything I can do with the club that gave me the chance to start my career, the team I was a fan of since I was five years old, is different to anything else I’ve won.
“I won things with Chelsea, with Spain, but this is different, this is special,” added Torres.
“It’s what I wanted when I was a kid, more than I dreamed.”
Published in Dawn, May 28th, 2016
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