Profile Roberto Soldado

Personal information

Full name : Roberto Soldado Rillo
Date of birth : 27 May 1985
Place of birth : Valencia, Spain
Height : 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Valencia
Number : 9
Youth career :
Don Bosco
2000–2002 Real Madrid
Senior career
2002–2006 Real Madrid B
2005–2008 Real Madrid
2006–2007 Osasuna (loan)
2008–2010 Getafe
2010– Valencia
National team :
2001 Spain U15
2001–2003 Spain U17
2003 Spain U18
2002–2004 Spain U19
2004–2007 Spain U21
2007– Spain

Club career

Real Madrid

Born in Valencia, Soldado stringed Real Madrid at the age of 15 from regional small club CF Don Bosco. After seasons of prolific goalscoring with the club's B team, he prepared his first team debut on October 23, 2005, against Valencia CF, playing 18 minutes in a 1–2 home loss. Previously, on September 28, he had scored an 86th tiny winner, afterwards just six minutes on the tone, in the season's UEFA Champions League contest against Olympiakos FC (2–1 home win), adding a late equalizer against CA Osasuna and another in a 3–2 away success at Racing de Santander, as Real done second in the league, also netting in the 4–0 Spanish Cup victory against Athletic Bilbao. In 2005–06, with Castilla, Soldado scored 19 targets in the second division (two penalties) to become joint-second highest goalscorer, alongside Ciudad de Murcia's José Juan Luque, one target behind Nigerian Ikechuwku Uche, of Recreativo de Huelva. On July 24, 2006, Soldado officially became the first member of Real Madrid to retire beneath fresh administrator Fabio Capello and fresh president Ramón Calderón. Soldado retired on a one-season lend to fellow lid flight club Osasuna. Set to score targets and return to Real Madrid as a superior footballer, Soldado stated: "The notion is to retire and have a good season with a first division team scoring targets, and to devise as a footballer". Osasuna had done fourth in the earlier campaign, to earn themselves a position in the third qualifying around of the Champions League, hence Soldado chose them across a figure of other Spanish clubs competing for his presence. "The chasing year I want to return to the Real first team. I chose Osasuna because it gives me the chance to play in the Champions League", Soldado said to Real Madrid's website afterwards his signing. He would ending 2006–07 with a total of 14 targets, earning him Osasuna's highest scorer, with 11 of those emanating in the league.

Soldado returned to Real Madrid where, on July 11, 2007, he rekindled his contract with the team until June thirty, 2012. In a July 21 interview with Spanish newspaper Diario AS, Soldado disclosed that he would be fraying figure 9 shirt on this fresh Madrid stint. "During the preseason I'll be figure 9, the figure I've invariably dreamed of. When I stair onto the tone at the Bernabéu I'll remember all the hard labor it took to obtain here". However, he would ending the season with just five league arrivals (one begin, at Deportivo de La Coruña), the second with fewer minutes for the league champions.

Getafe

In late July 2008, Soldado was marketed to Getafe CF for €4 million, signing a four-year sell with the side from the Madrid outskirts, like prior Real midfielder Esteban Granero the earlier week. He scored his first target for the club on October 19, 2008, in a 1–2 loss at Málaga CF, adding pair in another away defeat, with Osasuna (2–5), pair months later. In between, he was sent off in a 0–3 home loss against Valencia, for head-butting Carlos Marchena. On January 25, 2009, Soldado netted a hat-trick as an early substitute, in a 5–1 home win against Sporting de Gijón. On March 22, as Getafe strained in the league, he scored double to lock another home victory, 2–1 with Recreativo de Huelva. The chasing month, Soldado netted the opener against his first businessman club, albeit in a 2–3 away defeat.

Soldado began 2009–10 in grand fashion, scoring three past Racing Santander, in a 4–1 away success. After a lengthy scoring drought, he additional three more against newly promoted Xerez CD, in a 5–1 home win. On December 19, 2009, Soldado took his league score to ten afterwards scoring double in a 2–1 win at Sevilla FC; with this success, he became Getafe's best ever scorer in the first division, surpassing Manu del Moral and Daniel Güiza; he missed one month of competition due to injury but, in his return to movement, scored from a bicycle kick, earning his side a point in the 1–1 home draw against Sporting de Gijón.

Valencia

In early June 2010, afterwards a successful year at Getafe - 16 league targets, and the club qualified for the UEFA Europa League - Soldado returned to his hometown and gestured for Valencia for €10 million, displacing FC Barcelona-bound David Villa. In his first official game, on 14 September, for the Champions League team degree, he contributed one target in the Che's 4–0 win at Bursaspor; as shortly as the pair teams welcomed at the Estadio Mestalla in November, he netted pair more, in a 6–1 success.

International career

Soldado represented Spain at all its youth floors, scoring a total of 26 goals. He was first called-up to the first team for pair UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers, against Latvia and Liechtenstein, in June 2007, playing in both; however, he did not produce it to the finals in Switzerland and Austria, as the nation appeared victorious.