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.
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]