Rainer Torres Salas (born 12 January 1980) is a Peruvian

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manager and former player who most recently managed

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Career

Torres began in

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and

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. He moved to Europe to play for the German club

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and Austrian club

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. He returned to Peru to play for Universitario. Problems between Torres and the directors of the club caused him to sign with

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where he would play for four seasons and win one national championship. He returned to Universitario in 2008 but was unable to play in the first seven games of the season because of an injury in preseason. Torres made 28 appearances for the Peru national team. In August 2016, he announced his retirement from football.

Honors

Sporting Cristal * Torneo Descentralizado:

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Universitario de Deportes * Torneo Descentralizado:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

FBC Melgar * Torneo Descentralizado:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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* * 1980 births Living people Footballers from Callao Peruvian men's footballers 21st-century Peruvian sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Peru men's international footballers Peruvian Primera División players 2. Bundesliga players MSV Duisburg players DSV Leoben players Club Universitario de Deportes footballers Sporting Cristal footballers FBC Melgar footballers Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Peruvian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Sport Rosario managers {{Peru-footy-midfielder-stub