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Nelson Torres
Personal information
Full name Nelson Rubén Torres Flores
Date of birth (1944-06-09) 9 June 1944 (age 79)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Juventud Atacama
1961–1962 Green Cross
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962 Green Cross 2 (0)
1962–1972 Palestino 197 (24)
1964 → Green Cross (loan) 33 (4)
1972–1973 Toluca
1974 Unión Española 7 (0)
International career
1966–1968 Chile 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nelson Rubén Torres Flores (born 19 June 1944) is a Chilean former football player and manager who played as a winger for clubs in Chile and Mexico.

Club career[edit]

Torres came to the Green Cross youth system after a trial in front of the coach Dante Pesce in 1961.[1] After joining the team, he won the 1962 national youth championship alongside players such as Leopoldo Vallejos, Juan Rodríguez Vega, Juan Carlos Gangas, among others.[2]

He signed his first professional contract the same year and made his professional debut in a match against Universidad de Chile, facing his cousin Alfonso Sepúlveda, who helped him inside the field.[vague][1]

After making two appearances for Green Cross in 1962,[3] he switched to Palestino the same year.[4] He stayed with them until 1971[5][6][7] with a season on loan to Green Cross in 1964.[8][9]

After Palestino was relegated to the 1971 Segunda División de Chile,[10] he moved to Mexico in the middle of 1971 and signed with Toluca,[11] where he coincided with his teammate in Palestino, Carlos Valenzuela.[12][13][14]

Back in Chile, he joined Unión Española in 1974.[15]

International career[edit]

As a youth player, he was a member of a preliminary squad for the preparations of the 1964 South American U20 Championship.[16]

At senior level, he made four appearances for the Chile national team between 1966 and 1968.[17]

Personal life[edit]

He is the cousin of the also Chile international footballer, Alfonso Sepúlveda, who died in 2021.

In addition, his older brother, Jorge, played for Universidad de Chile and Palestino and his cousin, José Failla Torres, played for Ferrobádminton [es]. Another relatives played football at different levels: his younger brothers Hugo and Rodi and his cousin Sergio Torres.[1]

As a student, he attended both the Andrés Bello [es] and the Miguel Luis Amunátegui high schools.[1]

In June 2022, he was honored as a historical player of Green Cross.[18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "VOCACIÓN DE MEDIO CAMPO (1)" (JPG). Revista Estadio (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile. 13 October 1966. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  2. ^ "CONCLUSIONES DEL VII TORNEO NACIONAL JUVENIL DE FÚTBOL" (PDF). La Nación (in Spanish). 17237. Santiago, Chile: culturadigital.UDP.cl: 17. 13 February 1965. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Green Cross 1962 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Palestino 1962 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Club Deportivo PALESTINO". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  6. ^ "EQUIPOS DE FÚTBOL: ONCES HISTÓRICOS Y ACTUALES". CHILE Equipos (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  7. ^ (Retrofutbol Chile) PALESTINO 1966 on Facebook (in Spanish). 10 October 1922. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Equipos 1960 - 1969 :: Indio Pije - Green Cross Temuco". Green Cross histórico (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Club de Deportes GREEN CROSS". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 2 January 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  10. ^ "A 50 años de la dramática definición por el descenso entre Palestino y Unión La Calera 1970". Asifuch (in Spanish). 13 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Deportivo Toluca - Players, Ranking and Transfers - 70/71". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  12. ^ Palomino, Marcelo (10 October 1995). "Cómo fue..." (PDF). Revista Don Balón (in Spanish). 172. Santiago, Chile: Palestino Histórico: 42–43. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  13. ^ Güemes Priego, Francisco (22 August 2018). "LOS EXTRANJEROS DE LA TEMPORADA 71-72". Fútbol sin compromisos (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  14. ^ Güemes Priego, Francisco (29 August 2018). "LOS EXTRANJEROS DE LA 72-73". Fútbol sin compromisos (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  15. ^ "Union Española 1974 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  16. ^ "VOCACIÓN DE MEDIO CAMPO (2)" (JPG). Revista Estadio (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile. 13 October 1966. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  17. ^ "Nelson Torres". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  18. ^ Salviat, Julio (27 June 2022). "Celebré con viejos lindos los 106 años de Green Cross". Diario El Ágora (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.

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