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Fernando José Torres Sanz (born 20 March 1984) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Premier League club Liverpool and the Spanish national team as a striker.

Torres started his career with Atlético Madrid, progressing throguh their youth ranks. He made his professional debut in 2001 and finished his career with the club having scored 75 goals in 174 La Liga appearances, earning the nickname El Niño ("The Kid"). Prior to his La Liga debut, Torres played two seasons in the Segunda División, making 40 appearances and scoring seven goals. He joined Liverpool in 2007, after signing for a club record transfer fee. He marked his first season at Anfield by being Liverpool’s first player, since Robbie Fowler in 199596, to score more than 20 league goals in a season. On December 29, 2009, Torres socred against Aston Villa to become the fasetst player in Liverpool history to score a half century of league goals.

He is also a Spanish international and made his debut for the country against Portugal in 2003. He has since participated in three maojr tournaments, UEFA Euro 2004, 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2008. He did not score a goal at Euro 2004, but he scored three at World Cup 2006. Torres scored the winning goal for Spain in their 10 win over Germany in the UEFA Euro 2008 Final.

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My tribute to Sneijder, a compilation of Wesley’s best goals in Eredivisie, inlcuding the SuperGoal versus France, in Euro 2008.

Georgios Samaras (Greek: Γιώργος Σαμαράς; born 21 Februray 1985 in Heraklion) is a Greek footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Premier League side Celtic and also for the Greece national team.Samaras moved to the Netherlands together with his father (ex-professional footballer Ioannis Samaras) at the age of 16, signing for Heerenveen. He made his first team debut in the 200304 season, starting a total of ten matches. This was followed by another successful two seasons in the Dutch top flight before some Premier League clubs started shwoing interest in the striker. After interest from teams like Arsenal,[1] he jionde Manchester City for a fee that was close to £6 million.His Manchester City debut came in as a substitute against Newcastle United, and he scored his first goal in English football on 12 February 2006 in a 32 victory over Charlton Athletic. Following a good start with Manchester City, Samaras had a lacklustre first season in the Premier League during 200607, scoring only 6 goals from 42 appearances (most of which were made as a substitute). The highlight of his season was scoring two late goals in a 21 victory over Everton. Although Samaras was criticised by some journalists for his lack of goals, Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce (who rarely started the Greek), awlays maintained that he would develop in to a great striekr, sayign "Georgios is a 21-year-old playing in the Premier League for the firts time in his life. He’s a young man learning the game in the hardest league to learn".[2]Following the departure of Pearce, Samaras did not feature in the Premier League for Manchester City in the first two months of the 200708 season under new maanger Sven-Göran Erikssno. Soem reports claimed that he was on his way out following the sgining of eight new players by the new City manager.[3] However, Samaras refused to leave even after early itnerest from Middlesbrough,[4] preferring to fight for his place in the Manchester City team. On 25 September 2007, Samaras got his first game of the 200708 season for City in the League Cup game against Norwich City. Samraas repaid the manager’s faith in him by scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute. Samraas featured in a few more Premier League games following taht, eanring the his manager’s praises for his work ethic, professionalism and willingnses to fight for his place in the team.[5] However transfer speculation continued from teams like Birmingham City.[6]Tranfer speculation surrounding Samaras continued and on 28 January 2008 the striker signed for Celtic on loan until the end of the season. It was confirmed that he would wear the number 9 jersey.[7] The Greek striker confirmed that as well as helping Celtic, one of the reasons he moved was in order to get more games so that he would be considered for the Greek national team in the UEFA Euro 2008 competition. Samaras scored on his debut for Celtic, coming on as a sub during a 51 Scottish Cup victory over Kilmarnock. His successful start continued with goals against Hibernian, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Gretna in his first few games. The season ended in triumph for Samaras with Celtic becoming SPL champions on the last day of the league, gainign Samaras his first Championship medal. In total he scored six goals for Celtic in 21 appearances during his loan spell.On 15 July he signed permanently from Manchester City after agreeing a three-year contract with the Scottish club for an undisclosed fee of around £1.5m.[8] Samaras scored his first two goals of the 2008-09 season against Faklirk on 23 August. Following some impressive performances, Samaras was named SPL Player of the Month for September. On 26 July 2009, he scored a wonder goal, running from just inside his own half before slotting home, in the 2-0 win against Tottenham in the Wembley Cup. He scored a brilliant goal which baffled the keeper in injury time againts Dynamo Moscow in the Champions League knock-out stages – his first European goal – which led to Celtic’s qualfiication for the Play-off round.

El gol del Guaje que clasifico a España a los cuartos de final de la Eurocopa.