Juan Carlos Socorro
Personal information
Full name Juan Carlos Socorro Vera
Date of birth (1972-05-13) 13 May 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Caracas, Venezuela
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 San Fernando (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1991 Las Palmas B 35 (9)
1991–2002 Las Palmas 236 (40)
2000–2001 → Elche (loan) 29 (1)
2003–2004 Universidad LP 49 (5)
2004–2005 Deportivo Italia 13 (1)
2005–2006 Gáldar
Total 362 (56)
International career
1996–1997 Venezuela 5 (0)
Managerial career
2011–2014 Las Palmas (assistant)
2015–2022 Panadería Pulido
2022– San Fernando
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Carlos Socorro Vera (born 13 May 1972) is a Venezuelan retired footballer who played as a midfielder, currently manager of Spanish club UD San Fernando.

Club career

Save for one season, Caracas-born Socorro spent his entire professional career in Spain, almost always in the Canary Islands. He started in 1991 with UD Las Palmas which would be his main club (ten and a half years), playing one match in the Segunda División in the 1991–92 campaign and suffering relegation.[1]

In the following four seasons, Socorro featured regularly for the team, who achieved promotion from Segunda División B in 1996 after three unsuccessful playoff visits. In 1999–2000 he contributed 17 appearances – only two starts – as they returned to La Liga after an absence of 12 years, spending the following year on loan to another side in the second tier, Elche CF.[2]

Socorro's only season in the top flight was 2001–02, but he appeared in only five league games and was relegated. In January 2003 he moved to lowly Universidad de Las Palmas CF and, subsequently, played one year in his country of birth with Deportivo Italia. After one season with UD Gáldar he retired from football at the age of 34, with 286 competitive appearances for Las Palmas.[3][1]

International career

Socorro won five caps for Venezuela in one year.[4] He was selected to the squad that appeared in the 1997 Copa América in Bolivia, as the national team finished bottom of their group with three losses and no goals scored.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Socorro vuelve a su punto de partida 20 años después (Socorro returns to where he started 20 years later); Tinta Amarilla, 8 March 2012 (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Fernando Vázquez hace sus primeros descartes como entrenador de la Unión Deportiva (Fernando Vázquez's releases first as manager of Unión Deportiva); Diario AS, 4 July 2001 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Socorro, el carisma de un grancanario de corazón (Socorro, the charisma of a full-blown Grancanarian); Tiempo de Canarias, 13 September 2016 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Venezuela – Record International Players; at RSSSF
  5. ^ Copa América 1997; at RSSSF

External links

Venezuela squad – 1997 Copa América
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