CARLES SORIA, THE "SPANISH CLAW" OF ESTORIL
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Estoril (Portugal), Oct 5 (EFE) .- Although he was close to climbing to the Espanyol first team, Carles Soria has ended up landing with his "Spanish claw" at Estoril Praia, a leap into the professional world that was "complicated not accept, "he says in an interview with EFE.
Soria (Calaf, 1996) is a right back and has left behind eleven years at Espanyol, where he was already a veteran and a "father" in the subsidiary, to be the new in the Estoril dressing room and face a Portuguese second division where the competitiveness that exists has surprised him.
At just 20 years old, he already had a brief international experience in the Cypriot AEK Larnaca coached by the Basque Imanol Idiakez. Now, in Portugal, he is leaving home again to find his place in a team with history that is struggling to return to the first division.
Question: What made you leave Espanyol to head for Estoril?
Answer: Many times we focus on the fact that there is only life in Spanish football, we only want to play in Spain and we don't see beyond, we don't want to leave our comfort zone.
I am a football lover and when you get a proposal from a club like Estoril, which was in Europe years ago, which has been in first class for many years, it is difficult not to accept it.
Q: Did you feel that your time in the Espanyol subsidiary had run out?
A: It is no longer that it was exhausted but that in the end you also have the goal of wanting to be professional. I had been at the club for eleven years, I even felt like a father in the team, of very young people who were rising. In the end, maybe the stage did fall short and you needed a change of scene. I had the option of going up to the first team very close, due to certain circumstances it did not happen.
Q: There he was one of the veterans and here he is one of the new ones.
A: We need to be in the professional world and life in a subsidiary is totally different from the elite.
In a subsidiary, many times, being a young player and with little maturity, the thought is a little more selfish. When you arrive at a professional locker room the mentality is totally collective, for the good of the team. That competition is what makes you grow.
Q: How do you define yourself as a player?
A: As they call it here: the Spanish claw, the drive, the heart, the work and the sacrifice. Many times they are general concepts that people talk about and do not really feel. But I feel them inside, working every day, enjoying myself, giving my best, not understanding relaxing and working like someone else and running.
Q: Have you been surprised by the level of the Portuguese second division?
A: Spaniards think that Spain has the best football, that we are the best. Here I was very surprised by the competitiveness that there is, the teams are very strong.
There are high-quality players, especially in attack. And the defenders here are defenders. In other places we make mistakes by wanting defenders to be seen in attack and in the end we forget that we are defenders.
Q: What is it like working with coach Bruno Pinheiro?
A: From the first to the last he feels important in this team. The ideas that Bruno has both on and off the field are super clear, easy to understand. That helps a lot so that the player can quickly perceive the objectives.
Q: How was the experience in Cyprus?
A: I differentiate the experience in two areas, personal and football. At the football level it was not as expected, I played very little, I did not join the team much. But on a personal level I think it changed me, it was a brutal degree of maturity to go out to a totally different country at the age of 20. It helped a lot that our club was almost totally Spanish: we were 15 or 16 Spanish players, Spanish coach, Spanish management. That helped a lot to make adaptation easier.
Q: And the adaptation to Portugal?
A: As Portugal is so close, it seems that I am not outside of Spain. It's all much closer, people, both inside the club and outside, have helped me a lot.
Many times it is about us that we only come to play football, but apart from footballers we are people. And if you are not happy or do not feel comfortable you are wasting your time.
Q: Which teammates have surprised you the most?
A: I am very surprised by the demands of each one in training, the competition in the group, the experience of the players ... In my position is Jo o Diogo, who has played in the first division and is a player of the I have to learn
Q: Would you like to play in another league?
A: On a football level I would love to play in England, because football is lived to the fullest, or in Germany. They are big leagues where you really watch football. Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands are countries that have extreme visibility at a football level and where football is also experienced.
I would like to go to a place where there really is a football culture, not that they pay you more or less. Money is a secondary thing. But long live football, because in the end it is what I love.
Q: How do you see Espanyol this season?
A: They cannot relax but they have all the conditions to be able to be up and up.
They have an extremely good roster and capable of climbing. I have great friends in the first team, like Melendo, Lluís (López), Alex (López), Roca ...
But they cannot discredit the category. It is very complicated, there are very historical teams in second class that cannot get out of there, Malaga and Zaragoza are having a hard time returning. They have a great opportunity to take advantage of, a step back to be able to take two forward.
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