Pedro Torrão

Pedro Torrão
Personal information
Full name	Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão
Date of birth	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
1996–1998	Lourinhanense
1998	Salgueiros
1998–1999	União Lamas
1999–2001	Campomaiorense
2001–2004	Alverca
2004–2005	União Leiria
2005–2007	Beira-Mar
2007	Omonia
2008	Nea Salamina
2008–2010	AEL Limassol
2010–2011	Torreense
2011–2012	Vilafranquense
Total
International career
1997	Portugal U20
1999	Portugal U21
	*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

^ "Alverca desfalcado frente ao Sporting" [Alverca undermanned against Sporting]. Público (in Portuguese). 26 October 2003. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ ^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.

External links

Pedro Torrão at ForaDeJogo (archived)
National team data (in Portuguese)
Pedro Torrão at Soccerway

[1] "Alverca desfalcado frente ao Sporting" [Alverca undermanned against Sporting]. Público (in Portuguese). 26 October 2003. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

[MIRANTE-2] ""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.

[1]

[2]