Carlos Soler: "Going into the locker room and seeing Messi, Neymar and Mbappé? Like anyone else: 'Good morning, good morning'"

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(

Valencia, 25 years old) is called

.

Because of those slightly slanted eyes, the nickname drags him from the lower categories of

dressing room

, something to which he playfully minimizes the importance .

During 2022 his life has changed a lot.

His grandfather passed away in January, the culprit of who he is today, because when he was little, Carlos did not see that of getting into any soccer team.

bowl.

In September, it is said, he left his soccer house and now, in

, faces his first World Cup.

After playing and scoring against

, has seen the other two clashes on the bench, where he had a bad time the other day.

A very bad time, actually.

He says that he is forgotten and that he looks at

gladly".

A guy with an interesting speech.

On Japan Day, everyone took the ranking for granted.

Did that make you trust each other?

Honestly no.

If you had been in the talks before the game, what we were talking about was winning, because you never know what can happen in the other game, and the best thing is not to let luck decide.

If you win, you qualify.

Spot.

We started off good, but we were 10 minutes gone, we were run over.

In football these things can happen.

Were you aware on the bench of how the match between Germany and Costa Rica was going?

I did, and the teammates on the bench also because there was a person from the staff watching that game and he was informing the players.

For three minutes...

What did you think?

The first thing, of course, is: 'fuck, are you going home now?'.

But well, it only took three minutes, then we couldn't turn it around and we had to wait for something we didn't want, which was for Germany to score.

We ended up feeling a little bit of, I don't know what to call it, maybe disappointed, maybe...

scare?

Yeah, well, you say 'thank goodness we did things well in the first two games'.

Against Japan we may have lacked fluidity, but only 10 minutes were better than us.

But football is like that.

They are superior 10 minutes and they beat you.

We have to try to be more than 90 minutes of a game.

Has the hot flash passed?

Of course, we are already focused on the game with Morocco.

Was Luis Enrique's talk on Friday very vehement?

It was a normal talk.

When the coach speaks after the game, he always analyzes whether you win, lose or draw.

He also didn't give an extra pep talk or pep talk.

We are professionals and we have to trust.

Fans, press and everyone, we have to be together at this time.

Do you already know exactly where you failed in those 10 minutes?

Beyond the generality of the word collapse.

The goals are there.

The first is a ball outing that we lose and in a rebound they score a goal.

We have the philosophy of, if there are no risks, go out playing, and when there are, try to minimize them.

When you concede a goal, those two or three minutes you have to be very active, and the second is a long ball, a second play... It's very fast.

We have to correct those things, and we will.

paul garcia

RFEF

Beyond hitting a ball or not, couldn't they have stopped the game in less academic ways?

Protest a little, fake an injury, waste time...

You have to be smart, it depends on the risk, you can play or not.

We have a very high success rate when we come from behind with the ball.

It is our philosophy and we have to maintain it, because we will do better.

And those other tactics?

It's very easy to say in hindsight.

I don't know, we have a way, a style, an idea of ​​the same 90 minutes.

And if we are able to maintain the same rhythm for 90 minutes, it is not necessary to stop the game.

Morocco is faced with...

With joy, because being in the round of 16 is almost an obligation for Spain, but it is not without merit.

Respecting Morocco, we want to be in the quarterfinals.

You are debutante.

Is the World Cup as you imagined it to be?

Yes, more or less.

You can tell that everyone is watching, everyone sees it, everyone writes to you on Whatsapp, everyone watches all the games...

Is there something that has caught your attention?

The day in Costa Rica, when I had the press after the game, I spoke with about 50 journalists, I spent half an hour talking, and I had not experienced that until now.

paul garcia

RFEF

How is the adaptation to Paris and PSG going?

Very well.

I live in the center, because although the sports city is on the outskirts, and it takes me 40 minutes to get there, both my girlfriend and I prefer to stay in the center and enjoy the city, to go out for a walk or to have dinner, rather than having a house larger away from the center.

Do people stop you on the street?

Not at first, but lately they stop me more.

I think that people don't follow the Spanish League very much, but now that I've started to play more, to score a goal, they do know me when I go down the street.

What is it like to go into the locker room and see Messi, Neymar and Mbappé?

Well, personally, normal.

Like anyone: 'Good morning, good morning'.

In the field, having them is a delight, of course.

But you have to talk about entering the eight, not the 11, because the three of them always play.

The three are differential, they have a lot of quality, but those decisions are made by the coach.

Is it difficult for a footballer to leave your comfort zone?

I thought about it a lot, but I am also determined and when I made the decision to leave, I did it with all the consequences.

At the beginning, if I had to bench, assume it and work in training.

Now I don't want to look back.

Lately they ask me a lot if I would like to return.

I just left and I am going to really enjoy being in a top team in Europe.

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