David de la Torre García (born 16 March 1981) is a Mexican footballmanager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Bolivian club Royal Pari.
After retiring, de la Torre worked as an assistant coach of the under-20 team of his former side Atlas, before moving to Bolivia in 2011 as manager of Real América. On 25 December of that year, he replaced Sergio Apaza at the helm of Real Mamoré.[1]
de la Torre left Real Mamoré on 4 May 2012, due to the club's financial problems.[2] On 21 August, he took over Universitario de Sucre also in the top tier,[3] but left in November.
On 28 March 2013, de la Torre was named Sport Boys Warnes manager.[4] He led the club to a first-ever promotion to the first division, but was dismissed on 22 July.[5] In October, he was named in charge of Guabirá, but was sacked on 25 March 2014.[6]
de la Torre was appointed manager of Petrolero on 15 August 2014,[7] but was relieved of his duties on 2 April of the following year.[8] He agreed to become Nacional Potosí's manager on 1 September 2015,[9] but left on 25 November.[10]
On 4 April 2018, after also taking Royal Pari to a first-ever promotion, de la Torre left the club.[14] He won his second Copa Simón Bolívar with Always Ready in the end of the year, but left on 30 January 2019.[15]
de la Torre returned to Royal Pari in December 2022, as a sporting director, but was named interim manager the following 23 May.[16] On 9 June 2023, he was permanently named manager of the side for the remainder of the season.[17]