Jacobo Torres
Personal information
Full name Jacobo Torres Martínez
Date of birth 1898
Place of birth Vigo, Galicia, Spain
Date of death Unknown
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1914–1923 Fortuna de Vigo
1923–1925 Celta de Vigo
International career
1922–1923 Galicia
Medal record
Men's football
 Spain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1920 Antwerp Team competition
 Galicia
Prince of Asturias Cup
Silver medal – second place1922-23 Prince of Asturias CupTeam[1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jacobo Torres Martínez (1898 in Vigo) was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Celta de Vigo.[2] He was part of the first-ever team fielded by Celta de Vigo in 1923.[3]

Club career

Born in Vigo, he spent most of his career at his hometown club Fortuna de Vigo, playing for them until it was merged with Real Vigo Sporting in 1923, to form Celta de Vigo. Torres played in the last match that was held between these two rivals on 11 March 1923, which the fortunistas lost 0–1.[4] The presentation match of Celta de Vigo was held at Coia on 16 September 1923,[5] in a meeting between an A and a B team formed with the players from the club, taking advantage of the large team available that they had, and Torres was one of the 11 footballers that lined-up for the A team.[6] On 10 April 1924, he played a friendly match for Celta against the Uruguay national team that would go on to win the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.[7] He won two back-to-back Galician Championships with Celta in 1923–24 and 1924–25 before retiring at the end of that same season.[3]

International career

Being a player of Fortuna de Vigo, he was summoned to play for the Galicia national team several times, and he was a member of the team that reached the final of the 1922–23 Prince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF.[8]

Honours

Club

Fortuna de Vigo

Galician Championship:

  • Winners (3) 1914–15, 1920–21 and 1921–22
Celta de Vigo

Galician Championship:

  • Winners (2) 1923–24 and 1924–25

International

Galicia

Prince of Asturias Cup:

References

  1. ↑ Vicente Martínez Calatrava (17 August 2009). "La Copa Príncipe de Asturias" [The Prince of Asturias Cup] (in Spanish). CIHEFE. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Jacobo Torres Martínez - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Grandes y pequeños jugadores del Celta de Vigo: JACOBO TORRES" [Big and small Celta de Vigo players: JACOBO TORRES]. www.yojugueenelcelta.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Real Club Celta de Vigo, S.A.D". lafutbolteca.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  5. ↑ Ereaga, Txema (6 February 2015). "Coia, el antiguo feudo celeste" [Coia, the ancient celestial fiefdom]. www.fameceleste.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  6. ↑ Ereaga, Txema (12 January 2015). "El primer partido del Celta" [Celta's first game]. www.fameceleste.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  7. ↑ "RC Celta de Vigo vs Uruguay - AUF". www.auf.org.uy. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Squad of Galicia 1922-23 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
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