Erick Torres (footballer, born 1975)

Erick Torres
Personal information
Full name	Erick Omar Torres Arias
Date of birth	May 16, 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Youth career
1989	Sporting Cristal
Senior career*
Years	Team
–1994	Inter San Borja
1994	Unión Huaral
1995–2004	Sporting Cristal
2005–2006	José Gálvez
2007	Alianza Lima
2008–2010	Univ. César Vallejo
2011	José Gálvez
2012	Univ. Técnica Cajamarca
International career
1997–2006	Peru
Managerial career
2014–2017	Deportivo Hualgayoc
2017	Binacional
2017	Coronel Bolognesi
2017–2018	Deportivo Garcilaso
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 January 2012

Erick Omar Torres Arias (born May 16, 1975) is a retired professional Peruvian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He was most recently the head coach of Deportivo Garcilaso.^[1]

Club career

Torres started his development as a footballer in the youth academy of Sport Boys^[2] Then he started his senior career playing for Internazionale San Borja in the Peruvian Second Division.^[2] Torres then played for Second Division side Unión Huaral and helped them achieve promotion by finishing champions of the 1994 Segunda División Peruana.^[2] Then in 1995 Torres transferred to Peruvian giants Sporting Cristal. Erick made his Peruvian First Division debut on March 5, 1995 in the first round of the 1995 Descentralizado season.^[2] His debut was a derby match away to rivals Universitario de Deportes, which finished in a 2–1 win for La U. Torres would score his first goal in the First Division in the following game against his previous club Unión Huaral.^[2]

Erick was called up by manager Freddy Ternero and played for the Peru U-23 squad in the South American Pre-Olympic Tournament in 1996.^[2]

Between 1997 and 2006, Torres played 11 times for the Peruvian national team.^[3]

^ Juan Carlos Bazalar se va a Cusco luego de campeonar en Copa Perú‚ diariocorreo.pe, 17 January 2019
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Cincomentarios: El click de los Erick" (in Spanish). dechalaca.com. 18 March 2009. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ Pierrend, José Luis (12 March 2015). "Peru - Record International Players". rsssf.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2016-06-12.