Esteban_Torre
Esteban Torre
Spanish footballer and manager
Esteban Torre Ontañón (born 3 September 1971) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Esteban Torre Ontañón | ||
| Date of birth | (1971-09-03) 3 September 1971 (age 52) | ||
| Place of birth | Soto de la Marina [es], Spain | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000 | Marina Sport | ||
| 1985–1989 | Racing Santander | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1991 | Racing B | ||
| 1989–2000 | Racing Santander | 144 | (11) |
| 1997–1998 | → Logroñés (loan) | 26 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | → Toledo (loan) | 43 | (3) |
| 2000–2001 | Universidad LP | 9 | (0) |
| Total | 222 | (14) | |
| International career | |||
| 1987–1988 | Spain U16 | 6 | (1) |
| 1988–1990 | Spain U18 | 13 | (2) |
| 1992 | Spain U21 | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2001 | Racing Santander (assistant) | ||
| 2008–2011 | Bezana | ||
| 2015–2016 | Racing B | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Born in Soto de la Marina [es], Cantabria, Torre joined Racing de Santander's youth setup at the age of 13, from CD Marina Sport.[1] He made his first team debut at the age of just 18 on 9 December 1989, playing the last 17 minutes in a 3–0 Segunda División away loss against Levante UD.
Torre featured rarely during his first two seasons with the first team, as the club suffered relegation in the first but achieved immediate promotion back in the second. In the 1991–92 campaign, he established himself as a regular starter and scored his first professional goal on 24 November 1991, in a 1–1 home draw against RC Celta de Vigo.
Torre was rarely used during Racing's promotion campaign to La Liga in 1992–93, only contributing with one goal in ten matches. He only regained his starting spot in 1994–95, with the club still in the top tier; in that season, he also scored a career-best five goals.
After again falling down the pecking order, Torre was loaned to CD Logroñés in the second level for the 1997–98 campaign. Another loan to fellow league team CD Toledo followed in January 1999, and he remained at the latter club for 18 months before permanently leaving Racing for Universidad de Las Palmas CF also in the second tier in 2000; he retired with the side in January 2001, aged just 29, after featuring rarely.
After retiring, Torre returned to Racing as an assistant of Quique Setién in 2001 before being named goalkeeping coach of the side in October of that year.[2] He continued to work in that role for several years with Setién at Polideportivo Ejido, the Equatorial Guinea national team,[3] and Logroñés.
In 2008, Torre was named manager of Tercera División side CD Bezana. He left the club on 28 May 2011,[4] and returned to Racing in July 2015, after being appointed in charge of the reserves also in the fourth division.[5]
On 4 May 2016, after having disagreements with Racing's first team manager Pedro Munitis over the course of the season,[6] Torre left the B-side.[7]
Torre's son Pablo is also a footballer and a midfielder.[8] He too was a Racing youth graduate.
- ""Siempre he sido racinguista, pero nunca he querido entrenar al primer equipo"" ["I was always a racinguista, but I never wanted to manage the first team"] (in Spanish). El Diario Cantabria. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "Esteban Torre entrenará a los porteros" [Esteban Torre will train the goalkeepers] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 17 October 2001. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "Setién y Guinea reclutan a Bergara" [Setién and Guinea recruit Bergara] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 2 November 2006. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "Esteban Torre deja el Bezana y llega Cantudo" [Esteban Torre leaves Bezana and Cantudo arrives] (in Spanish). El Diario Montañés. 28 May 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "Las Secciones Inferiores del Racing, coordinadas por Julio Santamaría, preparan el nuevo curso" [The youth sections of Racing, coordinated by Julio Santamaría, get ready for the new season] (in Spanish). Racing Santander. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "Esteban Torre se enfada con Pedro Munitis" [Esteban Torre gets angry with Pedro Munitis] (in Spanish). El Diario Montañés. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "Esteban Torre no seguirá en el filial" [Esteban Torre will not continue at the reserves] (in Spanish). Racinguismo. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- "El padre de Pablo Torre: "Lo que marcó la diferencia fue la llamada de Xavi"" [The father of Pablo Torre: "What made the difference was the call of Xavi"] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- Esteban Torre at BDFutbol