The Goal that Redeemed Fernando Torres

The best team in the world, FC Barcelona, was playing Chelsea in the second leg of the 2012 Champions League semi-finals. One of these teams will move on to the finals, the other will go home.
One moment is about to seal the fate of this match, and even more importantly, redefine the career of one player who has suffered through the highest highs and lowest lows that football has to offer. This football match is about to become a theater for one man, as we bear witness to the redemption of Fernando Torres.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
04:03 - Chelsea’s 50 Million Pound Man
07:44 - Immortality
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REFERENCES AND MUSIC
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[@taumaserumule1073]

Trust me, Chelsea NEEDED that goal!

[@dendenn7383]

They didn't. Without that goal they were still going through

[@Trappyj8]

Don’t forget Torres won the corner that drogba scored from he was definitely underrated at Chelsea not to mention the next season he scored 23 goals in all comps and had a few number of assists and was the starter helping us win the Europa league

[@vikasguleria4706]

And it was the first corner earned by Chelsea

[@noahhhh_osu5723]

I grew up idolizing this man. When I was little, I would style my hair like him and idolize the entire spanish football team as a result. I recently found the old Torres 2010 WC jersey I wore during those days, and it inspired me to buy a signed one for my room, as it reminds me why I fell in love with the beautiful game.

[@davidkennedy7647]

Torres at Liverpool made me a football fan as a kid

[@cwhittx2019]

so real

[@sentiasatransformasi]

honestly that one goal literally turned torres from a £50m flop to a cult hero for chelsea fans

[@edwinsparda7622]

No no no. Chelsea NEEDED that goal. Remember this Barcelona team was THE greatest team ever. And they were playing like lions against Chelsea. Chances were that it could have gone Barcelona's way (another goal instead of a tie) but Torres's goal sealed the deal.

[@Nikzmat]

disagree, 2009 barca and 2017 madrid were better

[@joeols90]

As a 90's kid and LFC fan, Torres was probably my favourite football player in my late teens. There was nothing new in this video for me, but it made me relive it again. Well structured and great storytelling. Good job Matt. For being as young as you are, and with the disability of being American (I assume), you exhibit substantial football knowledge.

[@ame5963]

damn.. being American is a disability nowadays

[@jlcrayton]

Finally someone who makes videos like this that doesn't have an annoying voice, great vid.

[@Sugarist0]

If the game just ended 2-2 with Chelsea going thru with away goals, it wouldn’t have felt like as good of a revenge, Barca would’ve still held onto hope until the game ended. That goal crushed Barca’s hopes, and that’s why it was so important and memorable

[@henochdesouza4874]

This is the match i remember has being the 1st football game to give me goosebumbs. Im french and born in 2001. I lived the 2006 world cup final where we loosed to Italia. I remember hardly the game but the outcome made me cry myself to sleep in that summer night of 2006. But this game. I remember every detail. The amount of pressure Barcelona put on Chelsea the final goal of Torres. The way he celebrated over Valdes. This feels so far away now. 2010s football will be missed for sure. I feel like i dont enjoy the game has much i used to. It might only be me.

[@TheRageng]

Brilliant vid. Torres was my first favourite player when I was like 10. Good memories.

[@albertludwig6098]

love this, but (and myb ive been msiinformed) i was surprised u didnt mention that he went and played at the world cup ignoring the advice of his doctors, making his alr bad injury worse, basically sacrificing his career for the world cup trophy. he ended up getting redemption but yea important detail

[@mattgc]

You are right! I didn't highlight it as much in the video other than a quick mention, but it seems very likely that rushing back from injury to play in the 2010 World Cup made things a lot worse and led to the run of bad form post-2010 World Cup.

[@DanoFSmith-yc9tg]

That move on the Manchester keeper where Fenando missed the target, was so damn smooth though, if he did finish, it would have been one of the prettiest breakaway goals of all time.

[@calebsmith9970]

CAPTAIN TSUBASA MENTIONED YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@BrunoSilva1995]

with a wrong summary of the plot 🤓

[@AnujBorua]

Torres earned his redemption and you just earned a subscriber

[@gustavobraga3909]

Great video! Keep it up with the great editing and writing, very few channels about football come close to being this deep and touching, looking forward to another video like this.

[@michaelpepe4899]

As an Inter and Mourinho fan, I loved this semifinal.

[@johnhughes4797]

Hey bro, I enjoyed the video. You got this!!!

[@kalibanos]

Great video!

[@papajambori20]

Great Video

[@bigBlacgorilla]

very nice video, big up man

[@DEJRRMA]

Beautiful video!

[@BeenChilly]

For a channel with 500 subs this video is great

[@alle9307]

Great video! I know you'll make it big if you keep making good quality videos

[@tomorrowsgoalkeeper]

Great video dude keep up the good work! Crazy how you haven’t got more subs😱

[@Alesuarez]

Really thought this was one of those big channels. Great video

[@shonacole]

What a great story!!

[@HrithvikGill]

Your vidoes are great

[@adawg7955]

how does this video have under 800 views? This is easily on par with a multi-million view video. Keep up like this and ur going places man, great video!

[@georgeedwards7418]

Love this style

[@Linkonpark100]

The Goalgasm

[@PR0per6RAMmar]

Well done man, earned a sub from me

[@booxer]

AINT NO WAY THIS GUYS HAS 560 Subs? That's an actual disgrace

[@hector4818]

nice

[@umarmars47]

Next, Bayern Munich, UCL final!!

[@user-zp2dy4wf2y]

My respect for bro calling Barca the best team in the world 📈📈📈📈 Edit Madrid fans don’t hate my opinion

[@Blandys]

you look like fernando torres

[@DanoFSmith-yc9tg]

It's still odd to me when a player plays for two top clubs, in the same division.

[@alonso4136]

I have to disagree, he will of course be remembered for his prime at Liverpool.

[@elisha2358]

You are such an underated channel. Keep up the good work you're doing. Was here before 1k, 10k and ultimately the +100k subs you're bound to get.

[@chriszhang1660]

When karma found the disgraced Barcelona. Bravo. -Milan fan

[@AshuSinghthealkiddo]

🙌🙌🩵

[@CR7-y4s]

L vid

[@nikitapower947]

Loved you vid, but please don’t pronounce it as “Athletico” 🥲 Otherwise, a nice story!

[@matty4natty]

I used to wonder what it would have been like if Torres had stayed with Athletico Madrid for the majority of his career. He was so crazy good