The shy boy from Fuenlabrada who achieved legendary status at Atlético de Madrid, winner of a World Cup and two European Championships and the Champions League (Chelsea) among other titles, has had an inner desire to explain the path he followed to achieve success without losing the principles that his parents instilled in him. Now that he is a coach, he directs Atlético B, with Fernando Torres, the game of your life (The sphere),He has felt the need to transmit the nine values that he considers essential to form a balanced personality prepared to face life and football. Respect, discipline, commitment, humility, bravery, trust, loyalty, perseverance and passion, nine chapters filled with anecdotes related to those values, such as when on his first day of training with the Atlético first team he respected the barracks regime of a professional locker room and he had to get up from each place he occupied until he ended up in a chair. He endured the tests of humility that the veterans subjected him to in the rondo dressed in the leftover clothes that were in a bucket, an XL T-shirt, size S pants and socks of different sizes. The next day, he already had an assigned place in the booth and his official equipment.
Torres recalls a journey that led him to assume, at just 17 years old, the emotional and popular pillar of a club on the brink of disappearance due to the intervention and relegation to the Second Division. He also recounts episodes with the coaches he worked for (Aragonés, Benítez, Del Bosque, Simeone) and from whom they let him learn in his beginnings as a coach. Torres says that he was dazzled by the passion, one of his values, with which Jürgen Klopp transmitted his dizzying style the day the German invited him to a training session. If Kiko was his idol as a player, Klopp is his reference on the bench. The process of club changes, some painful, such as the jump from Liverpool to Atlético and then to Chelsea, are also recounted. The move to the London team explains how Torres has handled himself as a player. He arrived as the most expensive signing in the history of the Premier to a dressing room full of stars. To integrate he did not opt for the fast track by putting his stripes on the table. He preferred to wait, not betray himself, and handle himself with the same values that he applied on his first day of training with Atlético’s first team. In football, as in life.
