Born in Caleta Río Seco, Iquique, Torino belonged to a well-known sports family from that city bound to Club Rápido.
[1] Torino came to Guatemala to coach Cementos Novella [es] in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol at the beginning of the 1970s.
[5] He is one of the five Chilean coaches who have led Municipal along with Luis Grill Prieto, Jaime Hormazábal, Javier Mascaró and Fernando Díaz.
[9] Born in Iquique, he moved to Santiago and attended the Abelardo Núñez Normal School, where he graduated as a PE teacher in 1951.
[10] He made his home in Guatemala and his grandsons, Pablo and Javier Melgar Torino,[11] were Guatemalan professional football defenders.