Torres insists he didn't put World Cup before Liverpool

[ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]- Spain striker Fernando Torres has rejected accusations he put the
World Cup before his club Liverpool after he was ruled out of action for
six weeks. Torres traveled from England to Barcelona by car to
see a specialist, due to the ongoing disruption to flights caused by the
ash emanating from a volcano in Iceland, for an operation on his knee.
The 26-year-old will miss the rest of the English Premier League
season, as well as Liverpool's Europa League semifinal against his
former club Atletico Madrid, after picking up the injury in a game
against Portuguese side Benfica. He now faces a race to be fit
for Spain's opening game of the World Cup in South Africa against
Switzerland on June 16. He told his official Web site: "I picked
up the injury in the second minute of the Europa League clash at home to
Benfica, and I went onto to play for another 85 minutes with an injured
knee.

If I was only
thinking about Spain, I would have asked the boss to have taken me off
straight after the incident
--Fernando Torres, Liverpool and
Spain striker

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"If I was only thinking about Spain and
the World Cup, I would have asked the boss [Rafael Benitez] to have
taken me off straight after the incident. "We analyzed all the
possibilities before finally choosing the last of them all: surgery. The
meniscus was damaged and the doctors all agreed that I needed an
operation on my right knee." On the World Cup Torres said: "I
have been waiting four years for this and, if all goes well, I do not
anticipate missing it. My road to recovery has already started." Torres
expressed his disappointment at missing the European clash with his
former club, Atletico Madrid, who he left to join Liverpool in 2007.
He added: "I was very excited about returning and playing against
"Atleti". I wanted to be there again and greet the people, because for
me this is a very endearing qualification round. I will have many more
opportunities in the future." Torres had to travel to Barcelona
by car after his original flight was cancelled due to the fallout from
the ash cloud that has grounded all European flights. He said:
"On Friday we knew that with the meniscus not quite right, we were
facing a race against time. "The flight we
originally had booked was cancelled and we had to organize a trip out of
nothing in just under 30 minutes. The journey was very long, but it was
the only way of getting to Barcelona.

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