Liverpool F.C. won its seventh league title, tying Arsenal's record.
 In the competitive Football League First Division, Liverpool breezed to the championship victory with a six-point cushion to Leeds and Burnley.
 Roger Hunt scored 30 league goals, which earned him a place in the England squad for the World Cup, where he became the first player to win the World Cup representing Liverpool.
 It was not until 44 years later that Fernando Torres played an active part in the Spanish team winning the World Cup as a Liverpool player.
Atlético de Madrid firmly re-established itself in La Liga, thanks to a seventh-place finish.
 The season saw Fernando Torres taking another step towards superstardom, scoring 19 goals in the season during which he turned 20 years, which led to a call-up to the Spain national team for UEFA Euro 2004.
 The finish was still not enough to satisfy the owner family Gil, resulting in coach Gregorio Manzano unexpectedly getting the sack.
Fernando José Torres Sanz (] ; born 20 March 1984) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national team.
Valencia Club de Fútbol (] , ] ; also known as Valencia CF, Valencia or Los Che) is a Spanish football club based in Valencia.
 They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish football and European football.
 Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles, two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups (the predecessor to the UEFA Cup), one UEFA Cup, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and two UEFA Super Cups.
 They also reached two UEFA Champions League finals in a row, losing to La Liga rivals Real Madrid in 2000 and Bayern Munich on penalties after a 1–1 draw in 2001.
 Valencia were also members of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.
 In total, Valencia have reached seven major European finals, winning four of them.
Atlético Madrid opened a new chapter in its history with the appointment of Mexican coach Javier Aguirre, who had been successful managing Osasuna.
 With the club-record signing of superstarlet Sergio Agüero as well as Mariano Pernía and Raúl García, Atlético emulated at repeating Aguirre's recent feat of taking Osasuna to UEFA Champions League.
 The end result was 60 points, the best points haul in its five-season La Liga return, although this was not enough even for UEFA Cup qualification, which resulted in captain Fernando Torres departing for Liverpool, the transfer causing fury among the support.
 It was the sole season that he and Sergio Agüero played together.
Rory Jones (born 1955) is a former South African Soccer player.
 He was a professional soccer player for Berea Park 1973 and 1974, and Highlands Park 1975 and 1976 in the National Football League.
 In 1977, he joined Pretoria (Bantu) Callies in the newly formed Multiracial National Professional Soccer League and one of the first "White" players to sign for and play for a "Black" team at The Super Stadium, ( now named after his team mate, Macro "Masterpieces" Moripe ) in Attridgeville Township, west of Pretoria.
 He was also known as "Sikiza", someone with exceptional talent who could dribble the ball past all his opponents.
 He spent 6 weeks training and playing in the United Kingdom with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal and Chelsea in 1971.
 Described by Highlands Park Manager, Joe Frickleton, as the best left wing in South Africa.
 He was named in the South African National Team in 1978 vs Rhodesia, by Joe Frickleton.
Real Madrid C.F. is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain, that plays in La Liga.
 The club was formed in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, and played its first competitive match on 13 May 1902, when it entered the semi-final of the Campeonato de Copa de S.M. Alfonso XIII.
 Real Madrid was one of the founding members of La Liga in 1929, and is one of three clubs, including FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, to have never been relegated from the league.
 Since then, the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions.
 Real is the most successful club in Spanish football, having won a total of 64 domestic titles; a record 33 La Liga titles, 19 Spanish Cups, 10 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 League Cup.
 Real is the most successful club in European football, having won twenty one official UEFA trophies in total.
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (] ; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team.
 Often considered the best player in the world and regarded by many as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only player in history to win five FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he won consecutively, and a record-tying four European Golden Shoes.
 He has won 29 trophies with Barcelona, including eight La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles, and five Copas del Rey.
 Both a prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most official goals scored in La Liga (358), a La Liga season (50) and a club football season in Europe (73), a calendar year (91), as well as those for most assists made in La Liga (138) and the Copa América (11).
 He has scored over 600 senior career goals for club and country.
The Spanish football champions are the winners of the primary football competition in Spain, La Liga.
 The league is contested on a round robin basis and the championship awarded to the team that is top of the league at the end of the season.
 La Liga, first established in 1929, originally contained ten teams.
 Before La Liga's organization, the Copa del Rey—a regionalised cup competition—was effectively the national championship.
 La Liga is contested in by 20 teams; the three lowest-placed teams are relegated to the Segunda División and replaced by the top three teams in that division.
 Of the founding teams in La Liga, only Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao have not been relegated.
 The league was cancelled between 1936 and 1939 because of the Spanish Civil War.
RC Celta de Vigo contested La Liga, the UEFA Cup and Copa del Rey in the 1999-2000 season.
 Being title contenders up until Christmas, Celta lost their form in the second half of the season, aside from a 4-0 victory against Juventus in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup.
 The end result was 7th and quarter finals of the UEFA Cup, which meant the side missed out on Champions League football once again.
 The club also missed the chance to become the first Spanish championship-winning team from Galicia, with arch rivals Deportivo La Coruña winning La Liga.

Question: Which Professional soccer player played for the Spain national football team and left La Liga for Liverpool after failing to qualify for the UEFA cup? A. Fernando Torres
Answer: Fernando Torres