Playing position Role Footballer 1989–1995 Vilafranquense Height 1.70 m | Years Team Position Midfielder Name Pedro Torrao | |
Full name Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrao Date of birth (1977-03-12) 12 March 1977 (age 38) Place of birth Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal | ||
Pedro Miguel Ferreira Silva Torrão (born 12 March 1977) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
Football career
Born in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon District, Torrão made his professional debuts 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 Clube de Portugal. 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), U.D. Leiria and S.C. Beira-Mar.
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, as he signed with Nea Salamis Famagusta FC.
After again failing to impress, he joined a third side in Cyprus, AEL Limassol, in the 2008 summer, where he firmly established as first-choice in the playmaker position, also rejoining former teammate – in Sporting's youth ranks, Alverca and Leiria – Miguel Vargas; also, he suffered a severe injury, which kept him out of the game until March 2010.