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Juan Manuel "Chaco" Torres (born 20 June 1985 in Puerto Vilelas, Chaco), is a retired Argentine football midfielder.




Career


Former player of Argentine clubs Racing Club and San Lorenzo de Almagro (Buenos Aires), Torres made his professional debut in 2002 in the age of 17, he went on to make over 100 appearances for each of the Argentine club.
Torres was part of the Argentina U-20 team, along with such players as Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero and Pablo Zabaleta, that won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.
In summer 2005, the management of Dynamo Kyiv attempted to buy the young and promising FIFA World Youth Champion Juan Manuel Torres Racing Club. However, the Racing Club management were not as eager to release one of their key players, although the Torres was expressing a desire for leaving. Inter alia, the parties could not agree on money issues.
On June 24, 2011, he signed a three-year contract with Metalist Kharkiv as a free agent. Both times Chaco moved to a new club, on a free transfer (as a free agent). He offered his services to Metalist Kharkiv, at the time being out of contract.




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In January 2017, Torres signed for Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Aktobe, leaving the club by mutual consent on 15 June 2017.




Career statistics


As of match played 30 November 2014




Honours






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Argentina U-20

FIFA World Youth Champion (1): 2005




Personal life


Torres has two children: a daughter with his first wife Ailyn Lobato, and a son with the actress Catalina Artusi.
In September 2012, the Argentine fashion model Ivanna Palliotti left Buenos Aires and moved to Kharkiv for her boyfriend, the player of Metalist Kharkiv Chaco Torres.
Chaco is the nickname given to him, because he was born in the Argentine province of Chaco.




References






External links


Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI[usurped] (in Spanish)
"FC Metalist profile" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
FC Metalist history and statistics (in Russian)
Chaco Torres at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)

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