Joel Soto

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Joel Soto
Personal information
Full name Joel Antonio Soto Torres
Date of birth(1982-04-09)9 April 1982
Place of birth Valparaiso, Chile
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Santiago Wanderers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–2003 Santiago Wanderers 84 (39)
2003 Chiapas 13 (0)
2004 Colo-Colo 6 (1)
2004 Potros Neza – (–)
2005 Puebla 8 (1)
2005 Santiago Wanderers 15 (3)
2006 O'Higgins 18 (9)
2007 Universidad de Chile 32 (2)
2008–2009 Santiago Wanderers 42 (20)
2009 Ñublense 13 (1)
2010 San Luis 32 (7)
2011 Cobresal 28 (3)
2012 San Luis 14 (0)
2013 Unión La Calera 4 (0)
Total309(86)
International career
2001 Chile U20 2 (0)
2002–2003 Chile 5 (0)
2004 Chile U23 7 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joel Antonio Soto Torres (born in Valparaiso, Chile on 9 April 1982) is a retired Chilean footballer. He played plays as a striker and right wing.

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Club career

Santiago Wanderers

His childhood was spent in the Cerro Toro of Valparaíso then was enrolled in Santiago Wanderers at an early age. His debut as a professional was on the 1998 season.

During the 1998 season, Santiago Wanderers had a team with many talented players but at that same season his team dropped to the second division of Chilean football. During the 1999 season, like the previous season, he did not have the chance to play since the time the team had a particularly good goal scoring figure in Reinaldo Navia. The following year and back in the first division he began to consider several offers for different teams and began to assert himself.

In 2001, the Santiago Wanderers made several changes and Joel became stronger in front of the post holder and with much more experience, he started to become a figure alongside other players like Jaime Riveros, Moises Villarroel and Silvio Fernandez. During this season he was called to be in part of the roster for the national team sub-20 to compete in the under-20 World Cup but the bitter fact was that he and along with other teammates, was involved in an act of indiscretion, which led to his demotion to be trained with a lesser team. Once he came back with the Santiago Wanderers, he became one of the leader scores which resulted in a world championship place for his team, the first one for Santiago Wanderers in 33 years.

During the 2002 season for the first time in his career he disputed an international cup, the Copa Libertadores, where his team was eliminated in the first round but achieving good results versus the current champion, Boca Juniors, a tie in Argentina and a victory in Chile were crucial for Soto.

In the same 2002 season, Soto continued playing for Santiago Wanderers for the national championship and scoring more goals, rumors emerged from people linked to big national football clubs like Club América and Boca Juniors, and even a team from France. In that same year, he also achieved playing for the first time in the Copa Sudamericana where he reached the quarterfinals. Everything was achieved during this season which earned him a spot on the roster for the adult national team playing in some practice games.

Finally, despite all the rumors about his departure from Santiago Wanderers nothing was finalized in particular because of the problems with the leadership and continuous playing for the love of the club, he even went into a tournament for the first time, he was elected by his peers as team captain.

Mexico

After so many rumors about his transfer finally in mid-2003 is transferred to Mexican soccer to Chiapas earlier in the tournament had been descended. Yet the Jaguars could not achieve a good performance, it was no longer the same as playing at Santiago Wanderers, on this table Buenos Aires wanted to have it back for the 2004 season but the economic gap could not make it succeed, and that Soto had no intentions of returning to Chilean football because it cost a lot for going abroad.

Despite its low yield, their calls to the selection were not integrated and the preparation of the Selection Sub pre-23 to compete in pre-Olympic to be held in Chile.

Return to Chile

During the tournament pre Sudamerican Sub-23 in Chile, Soto wished for his return to Chile but this time not played by Santiago Wanderers, he took part in the Chile's most popular soccer club, Colo-Colo. Soto came to the club for six months on loan as a reinforcement for the Copa Libertadores in 2004 where they failed to pass through to the first round. Colo-Colo was unable to pay him well and in nine matches where only two single achievements were made before his former club, Santiago Wanderers. To this day, he is playing for Unión La Calera.

After his retirement from professional soccer, he served as a sports advisor for the city of Valparaiso. [1] [2]

International career

He represented Chile at under-20 level in the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship and was the team captain of Chile U23 in the 2004 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. [3]

At senior level, he made 5 appearances for Chile in friendly matches. [4]

Personal life

He is nicknamed Huevo (Egg). [3]

He is the uncle of the former professional footballer José Soto, who also played for Santiago Wanderers. [5]

In January 2022, he was arrested for drug trafficking in Valparaíso. [6]

Honours

Club

Santiago Wanderers

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References

  1. ↑ "Las sacrificadas semanas de Joel Soto en los cerros de Valparaíso". AS Chile (in Spanish). 3 July 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Joel Soto, el ex delantero de Wanderers que hoy trabaja en el departamento de Deportes de Jorge Sharp". El Desconcierto - Prensa digital libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Joel SOTO". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "Joel Soto". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Serrano del Pozo, Gonzalo (2011). Wanderers 2011, el año de los cerros alegres (PDF). Santiago, Chile: Altazor. p. 69. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Joel Soto, formalizado por narcotráfico" (in Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 7 January 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
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