Juan Carlos Socorro

Juan Carlos Socorro Vera (born 13 May 1972) is a Venezuelan retired footballer who played as a midfielder.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Socorro and the second or maternal family name is Vera.
Juan Carlos Socorro
Personal information
Full name Juan Carlos Socorro Vera
Date of birth (1972-05-13) 13 May 1972
Place of birth Caracas, Venezuela
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1991 Las Palmas B 35 (9)
1991–2002 Las Palmas 235 (40)
2000–2001 → Elche (loan) 29 (1)
2003–2004 Universidad LP 49 (5)
2004–2005 Deportivo Italia 13 (1)
2005–2006 Gáldar
National team
1996–1997 Venezuela 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Save for one season, Caracas-born Socorro played almost 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 Segunda División in the 1991–92 campaign and suffering relegation.

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

Socorro's only season in the top flight was 2001–02, but he played 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 amateurs UD Gáldar he retired from football at the age of 34, having appeared in more than 250 official matches with Las Palmas.

International career

During one year, Socorro won five caps for Venezuela.[1] 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.[2]

References
  1. Venezuela – Record International Players Archived 30 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine; at RSSSF
  2. Copa América 1997; at RSSSF
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