The Sergio Torres Story by Sergio Torres

Author:Sergio Torres
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Popular culture speaks of a race. They say you have to finish to be successful. This is a lie. We don’t live to win. We live to live.”

Eduardo Galeano

THE ONLY thing standing in the way of Sergio’s happiness was himself. Once he got past his hang-ups, he could continue climbing up the professional football ladder because it was his right, and furthermore he was finding himself in the position to do it. However, at the same time, he could be a sad winner or a happy loser; unhappy playing third division football, or satisfied with playing for a fourth division team. He just needed to figure out which option gratified him more.

The new team publicity for the 2007/2008 season reminded him daily of his reason for living. Wycombe’s team shirts had the word “Dreams” written across them because it was the name of the bedroom accessory company sponsoring the club. He would wear this word stamped on his chest every time he stepped onto the pitch for practice or for an official match. Those six letters kept him from forgetting how he had got to where he was.

Paisa himself was also a marketing object that season. They were selling light blue and white Argentina shirts, with the AFA shield on the front and “Torres” written on the back. Calendars and posters with pictures of him were also for sale, in addition to the magazines featuring exclusive interviews – one in which they asked him what the first CD was he had bought and he answered: “One by Leo Mattioli.”

Signing autographs was one of his favourite things. He would stop for minutes at a time to sign, trying to please all of his fans. “The club published a calendar with pictures of the players and Sergio was one of the most sought out to sign it. I watched him stop patiently for every fan, and I didn’t want to be left out. I also went up to him with mine and asked him to sign it for me. Something to hold on to,” Raúl Torres proudly narrated during one of his trips to Europe.

Each trip to visit Sergio got better for his parents. One time, thanks to the generosity of Steve Hayes, Wycombe’s owner, they would spend a day being treated like royalty. Steve sent a limousine to the airport to pick them up and then drive them around the centre of London. Raúl would later tell the story: “It was wonderful. Us cruising around London in a limousine, but the problem was that we couldn’t understand the chauffeur at all. Think about it. I don’t speak any English and not really that much Spanish either. I speak ‘El Coyuncan’. Luckily, they had given us a telephone, so every time we wanted to say something to the driver, we called Sergio and passed the phone to the front. Our son would tell him where to take us and later would translate what the chauffeur had said.”

Just like during his first two seasons with Wycombe, Sergio would wear number 22 – the number associated with madness.

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