Pedro Torrão Explained

Pedro Torrão
Fullname:Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão
Birth Date:12 March 1977
Birth Place:Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Height:1.70 m
Position:Midfielder
Youthyears1:1989–1995
Youthyears2:1995–1996
Youthclubs1:Vilafranquense
Youthclubs2:Sporting CP
Years1:1996–1998
Years2:1998
Years3:1998–1999
Years4:1999–2001
Years5:2001–2004
Years6:2004–2005
Years7:2005–2007
Years8:2007
Years9:2008
Years10:2008–2010
Years11:2010–2011
Years12:2011–2012
Clubs11:Torreense
Caps1:16
Caps2:1
Caps3:30
Caps4:61
Caps5:86
Caps6:19
Caps7:36
Caps8:12
Caps9:9
Caps10:38
Caps11:4
Totalcaps:312
Goals1:3
Goals2:0
Goals3:4
Goals4:1
Goals5:1
Goals6:0
Goals7:1
Goals8:0
Goals9:1
Goals10:0
Goals11:0
Totalgoals:11
Nationalyears1:1997
Nationalyears2:1999
Nationalteam1:Portugal U20
Nationalteam2:Portugal U21
Nationalcaps1:3
Nationalcaps2:1
Nationalgoals1:0
Nationalgoals2:0

Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão (born 12 March 1977) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career

Born in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon District, Torrão made his professional debut with S.C. Salgueiros in January 1998 after unsuccessfully emerging through local U.D. Vilafranquense's youth ranks and having a one-and-a-half-year spell with the farm team of Sporting CP. In the following seasons he played in the two major divisions in Portuguese football, with relative impact; successively, he represented C.F. União de Lamas, S.C. Campomaiorense, F.C. Alverca (which he helped promote from the second division in 2003),[1] U.D. Leiria and S.C. Beira-Mar.[2]

In late January 2007, at nearly 30, Torrão left the Aveiro side and joined AC Omonia, but only lasted there a few months, moving clubs in the country in the summer after signing with Nea Salamis Famagusta FC.[2]

After again failing to impress, he joined a third side in Cyprus, AEL Limassol, in the 2008 off-season, where he firmly established as first-choice in the playmaker position, rejoining former teammate – in Sporting's academy, Alverca and Leiria – Miguel Vargas; also, he suffered a severe hip injury which sidelined him for several months.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Alverca desfalcado frente ao Sporting. Alverca undermanned against Sporting. Público. Portuguese. 26 October 2003. 29 March 2020.
  2. News: "Fico triste por ver o Alverca e o Vilafranquense em divisões tão baixas". “It makes me sad to see Alverca and Vilafranquense in such lower divisions”. O Mirante. Portuguese. 21 September 2011. 29 March 2020.