carlos soler will never forget his debut in the First Division, against the Royal Society –club in which he plays today- in Anoeta in December 2016. Cesare Prandellithe coach who gave him the alternative, had set the locker room on fire with his historic “Fuori!” public directed to the locker room. Ten days later, the Italian coach resigned and the interim Voronow team manager, turned the Valencian midfielder into indispensable to overcome the situation until the end of the season.
this sunday (Anoeta, 7:00 p.m.) He faces for the first time in his career the club he joined when he was 5 years old and the one that went through stages until wearing the number 10. And it won’t be just any match. It is the farewell to the Royal Society of his fans in a great season, with the Cup title, against a historical rival in danger of relegation. He needs a point to save himself but, if he does not achieve this, things could get complicated on the last day against the Barcelona.
Carlos Soler, with Raúl Martínez his coach at Prebenjamín, and Pedro Chirivella.
Soler is the perfect story of a youth player who arrived in Paterna in Prebenjaminas a scoring forward with the coach Raul Martinezand who ends up playing in the Champions League and lifting a Cup as a leading footballer for the first team. But after that title, the main shareholder, Peter Lim, jibarized the black and white project and Soler left Valencia in the summer of 2022, with the season already started. PSG put 18 million euros and the Valencian midfielder gave the go-ahead to close the operation: “I decided seek to play with the best in PSG, play in the Champions Leaguetry to grow at a sporting level and that’s it,” he explained this week on Radio MARCA.
Seeing it from the outside and putting myself in their shoes, without knowing everything that could be behind it, I understand why the fans would get angry
Much of the hubby of the Valencia did not understand that movement from one of his references, on and off the field of play: “Seeing it from the outside and putting myself in their shoes, without knowing everything that could be behind it, I understand why they would get angry,” adds the realistic player with understanding. But It’s been four years since that. “The vast majority, when I go through Valencia, tell me ‘I hope you come back’, ‘what a shame you left’… There are very few who insult me or my family.”.
Lato (now in Mallorca) and Carlos Soler, which is the original photo used in this text.
Soler has found in La Real what it did not find in its European adventure: feel important in a project of the noble zone of the Leaguewho will play the Europa Leagueafter win the Cup. The Valencian player left the League as one of the midfielders with greater offensive contribution (between goals and assists). At Real he feels important again: “Since I left Valencia for Paris, I had the feeling that I had not played at all (he played for a season on loan in the West Ham)”. And with the arrival of Matarazzo He feels his best moment: “It has been recovering the level that I think I have, that of Valencia, something very difficult.”
In Real there is total stability; Valencia is not a stable club
Guedes will be next to Carlos Soleranother former Valencia player – who has faced the black and whites with the Villarreal– who left the club (at Wolverhampton) the same summer as Soler, who explains the big difference between Valencia and Real Sociedad: “There is total stability here and, if you compare it with Valencia, it is not like that. “Valencia feels bad to me, but it is not a stable club.”
This Sunday, Carlos Soler will feel a strange feeling, seeing yourself as a rival from his family’s club, which he arrived with only five years. It will be difficult to combine his two last wishes: “I want Valencia to always do well Well, except for Sunday, because I am defending Real Sociedad right now. I will always be very grateful to him.”