Leaving the soul was not enough. Óliver Torres wanted to succeed in Atlético and Simeone wanted the youth player to have continuity and command but, between them, there was a scheme that was not very permeable to flourishing. Too rigid for a player with an artist vocation. "The system was a bit weird," Torres said after leaving the rojiblanco team, which, today, he hopes to face for the first time. Like who has to repair an engine being his only tools a handful of brushes. Óliver Torres (Navalmoral de la Mata, 1994) has a hard time looking back, in the countryside and in life. With the same intensity with which the rival area is looking, you want to settle in a club, in a group, and abandon the vertigo of an early talent, of an intermittent trajectory. He has the feeling that in Seville he will be, once and for all, the superlative player who has always aimed.
He is only 24 years old, although the fan has the feeling that he has spent his life spilling talent on the grass. Far away is the Marcet Foundation, in Barcelona, which was 12 years old, leaving his family behind to launch into the dream of becoming a footballer. The cries in the house of the family that welcomed him. The desire to return. The relief he felt with the ball attached to the boot, that brief comfort, but then the nights without his own. The sadness. SMS Then, at 14, the tests with Atlético. Dazzling category by category, Simeone waiting for porta gayola, calling him for the first team, a few exciting games, the difficult fit, that feeling that something was missing for the kid, doubts, assignments to Villarreal de Marcelino and Porto de Lopetegui , the soft return and, on 16/17, goodbye. Return to Porto. Start again. Without rancor
Lopetegui is the coach who has most spoiled him, the one who has seen the most things in him. In his first season in Portugal he played everything by the hand of the Basque coach. As a coach he always took it into account. Together they got the European sub'19 of 2012 and in the absolute he did not forget it, although he acted with justice and asked for something more to be able to summon it. In this summer, Monchi offered the Basque several profiles to fill a position in the core of the new Seville and, among them, was showing Óliver. The coach said he knew him well, that he trusted him and that, if possible, go ahead. And so it was tried through Fernando Navarro , deputy of the sports director, who was the one who called Iván de la Peña , agent of Extremadura, to start the negotiation. Torres was on vacation in the US, walking along the beach with his girlfriend, to whom he asked permission to pick up the phone from his agent. So he told the media of the club, without hiding the illusion that made that call, without hiding that he said yes immediately, without concealing that he wanted to return to Spain, to meet again with Julen , to take on a challenge of as much weight as carrying The rudder nervous.
In Seville, his responsibility swings between two fundamental positions in the Lopetegui scheme. Either it occupies the midfield with purity, accompanying Banega , Jordán or Vázquez and usually flanked by Fernando , or else he steps on the left area of the attack, making a clear link with the tip. With freedom and obligation to look for the last pass in both performances, comfortable in the immovable 4-3-3 of the technician, with the ball always close, his particular way of being happy, taking risks, immersed in the noise, constantly offering his partner , with that fragile tenacity, with that sweet courage.
Although he is not a regular starter, if he has minutes, facing his former team will not be easy. "I have a clear conscience, I gave everything when I was there," he says. More mature and settled, and with his talent at the service of the fans of Nerva, the young veteran just wants to keep growing. He dreams of the national team, dreams of celebrating a title at Sánchez Pizjuán, dreams of being, at once, the great footballer he has always seemed to be.
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