_2018_Sports_Festival_-_meciul_amintirilor._(52810805375)_(cropped).jpg) Soler in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Miquel Soler Sarasols | ||
| Date of birth | (1965-03-16)16 March 1965 (age 60) | ||
| Place of birth | Girona, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back,midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1979–1983 | Olot | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1988 | Español | 118 | (3) |
| 1985–1986 | →Hospitalet (loan) | 17 | (2) |
| 1988–1995 | Barcelona | 81 | (2) |
| 1991–1992 | →Atlético Madrid (loan) | 25 | (1) |
| 1993–1995 | →Sevilla (loan) | 75 | (1) |
| 1995–1996 | Real Madrid | 14 | (1) |
| 1996–1998 | Zaragoza | 39 | (2) |
| 1998–2003 | Mallorca | 152 | (1) |
| Total | 521 | (13) | |
| International career | |||
| 1983 | Spain U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 1986–1987 | Spain U21 | 3 | (0) |
| 1987 | Spain U23 | 2 | (0) |
| 1987–1991 | Spain | 9 | (0) |
| 1993–1998 | Catalonia | 3 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2011–2014 | Mallorca B | ||
| 2014 | Mallorca | ||
| 2015 | Mallorca | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Miquel Soler Sarasols (born 16 March 1965) is a Spanish retiredfootball player andmanager.
Mainly aleft-back who could also operate as awide midfielder, his career spanned twoLa Liga decades (with 652 competitive matches), and he was the only player to represent bothBarcelona andMadrid main clubs.[1]
Soler appeared forSpain atEuro 1988.
Born inGirona,Catalonia, Soler was aRCD Espanyol youth graduate, making his first-team – andLa Liga – debut in the1983–84 season and becoming first-choice following a loan to neighbouringCE L'Hospitalet. In hisfourth year, as the club finished third after the second stage, he appeared in 41 out of 42 games and scored two goals, going on to help it to reachthe final of the1987–88 UEFA Cup, netting in the 3–0 home win in the first leg as thePericos eventually lost onpenalties againstBayer 04 Leverkusen.[2][3]
Subsequently, Soler joinedFC Barcelona,[4]winning theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup in hisfirst season while also playing 23 matches in the league. After asole campaign withAtlético Madrid, where hewon his secondCopa del Rey, he returned to Barcelona, with no impact.[5][6]
After two excellent years withSevilla FC, still on loan from Barcelona,[7] Soler moved toReal Madrid,[8] but appeared scarcely during1995–96 (his only season) as coachArsenio Iglesias was ordered by chairmanLorenzo Sanz not to utilise him as he would be automatically renewed if he played the required number of 20 matches.[9] Following a spell withReal Zaragoza[10] he was still able, at 33, to sign forRCD Mallorca, where he made a further 152 top-flight appearances,winning another domestic cup and retiring at the end of2002–03; he totalled 504 games at that level, scoring 11 times.[6]
Soler started working as a manager withMallorca's reserves, going on to be in charge of the team for three years, two in theSegunda División B.[11] In the summer of 2014, he was appointed at the helm of the main squad in theSegunda División,[12] being relieved of his duties one month later following a directorial change[13] but returning in February 2015 after his successorValery Karpin was dismissed.[14]
Soler won ninecaps for theSpain national side, and represented the nation atUEFA Euro 1988,[6] where he appeared in the win againstDenmark (playing the second half) and the loss toItaly.[15][16] His debut came in aEuro 1988 qualifier inBucharest, a 3–1 defeat againstRomania on 29 April 1987.[17]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Mallorca B[18] |  | 22 June 2011 | 11 July 2014 | 118 | 51 | 29 | 38 | 177 | 128 | +49 | 043.22 |
| Mallorca | | 11 July 2014 | 12 August 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Mallorca[19] | | 10 February 2015 | 20 June 2015 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 27 | −6 | 033.33 |
| Career total | 136 | 57 | 32 | 47 | 198 | 155 | +43 | 041.91 | |||
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