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World Cup 2022 Daily Diary: Day 17 - Quarterfinals are setOh we got narratives! New ones! Old ones! Tired ones! Exciting ones! If you can find better narratives than here…fuck it!...

Never Forget That Fernando Torres Was A Force Of Nature Before He Was A MemeIt has been a while since Fernando Torres was something other than a melancholic presence on the soccer field. The man nicknamed El Niño—who played for Atlético Madrid, Liverpool, Chelsea, AC Milan, and Atlético again before retiring on Thursday at Japanese club Sagan Tosu—saw the arc of his career ...

Fernando Torres's Severe Head Injury Sends Fellow Players Into A PanicLate on in today’s Atlético Madrid-Deportivo match, Fernando Torres clashed with a Deportivo player while going up for a header, and fell face first onto the ground, apparently unconscious. The way Torres fell itself is nasty, but it’s the distraught reaction of the players who saw the injury up clo...

Fernando Torres Goes Back In Time, Scores Gorgeous Overhead Goal

Atlético Madrid got an early equalizer against Celta de Vigo today when Fernando Torres tapped into his past greatness to flip an overhead strike and loft it past keeper Sergio Álvarez. Fancy! Maybe he’ll get that new contract after all....

Fernando Torres Does A Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres must’ve felt some kind of way about Edinson Cavani threatening to usurp El Niño’s hard-earned title as The World’s Foremost Sitter-Misser, so he went and did this:...

The Resurrection Of Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres does not suck anymore. It may sound like fairly unremarkable praise to say that a rich and famous professional athlete manages to wring enough competence out of the limbs and lungs that have made him a millionaire dozens of times over to not be actively bad at his job. But for Torres...

If Atlético Madrid Don't Beat Barcelona Next Week, Nobody Will

Now this—with intensity overflowing from the first whistle until the last, and frantic, blitzkrieg attacking being thwarted by heroic defending—was everything El Clásico was not....

Fernando Torres, Missing For Four Years, Found Scoring Goals In Madrid

Hey, who's this new "Fernando Torres" guy, and what did you do with the one we've come to know and loathe? Also: hey, there you are Fernando! Where have you been hiding all these years?...