Torres back in training with Spain

Striker Fernando Torres, who has been out injured since early April, trained for the first time on Thursday with his Spain team-mates ahead of the June 11-July 11 World Cup finals.

The Liverpool hitman’s return to the paddock is welcome news for Vicente del Bosque’s Spanish team, who are drawn against Switzerland, Honduras and Chile in Group H in South Africa.

Torres, 26, underwent knee surgery in April, but seemed to feel no pain in training at Spain’s training camp north of Madrid.

The squad will fly to Innsbruck, Austria, on Friday to play a warm-up game against Saudi Arabia before embarking on another training camp in western Austria until June 3.