Pedro Torrão

Pedro Torrão
Personal information
Full name Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão
Date of birth (1977-03-12) 12 March 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1989–1995 Vilafranquense
1995–1996 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1998 Lourinhanense 16 (3)
1998 Salgueiros 1 (0)
1998–1999 União Lamas 30 (4)
1999–2001 Campomaiorense 61 (1)
2001–2004 Alverca 86 (1)
2004–2005 União Leiria 19 (0)
2005–2007 Beira-Mar 36 (1)
2007 Omonia 12 (0)
2008 Nea Salamina 9 (1)
2008–2010 AEL Limassol 38 (0)
2010–2011 Torreense 4 (0)
2011–2012 Vilafranquense
Total 312 (11)
International career
1997 Portugal U20 3 (0)
1999 Portugal U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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]

References

  1. ^ "Alverca desfalcado frente ao Sporting" [Alverca undermanned against Sporting]. Público (in Portuguese). 26 October 2003. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c ""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 (in Portuguese). 21 September 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2020.