Juan Carlos Socorro Vera (born 13 May 1972) is a

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who played as a

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, currently

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of Spanish club

UD San Fernando Unión Deportiva San Fernando is a Spanish football team based in Maspalomas, in the autonomous community of Canary Islands. Founded in 1992, it plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 4, holding home matches at '' Ciudad Deportiva de Maspalo ...

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 Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria in the autonomous community of Canary Islands. Founded on 22 August 1949, it plays in Segunda División, holding home games at t ...

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.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) 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

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after an absence of 12 years, spending the following year on loan to another side in the second tier,

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. 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 Unión Deportiva Gáldar is a Spanish football team based in Gáldar, Las Palmas, in the autonomous community of Canary Islands. Founded in 1988 it plays in Preferente de Las Palmas, holding home matches at '' Estadio Barrial'', with a capacity ...

he retired from football at the age of 34, with 286 competitive appearances for Las Palmas.

International career

Socorro won five

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in one year. He was selected to the squad that appeared in the

1997 Copa América Bolivia hosted the Copa América for the second time in its 38th edition. It was held from 11 to 29 June. It was organized by CONMEBOL, South America's football governing body. There is no qualifying for the final tournament. All South Ameri ...

in Bolivia, as the national team finished bottom of their group with three losses and no goals scored.Copa América 1997
at RSSSF

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