We all realised it long before but now the man himself has come to acknowledge the fact. The architect of the ruin of the Spanish club Valencia, Juan Soler has sold his last remaining shares and has quit the Mestalla but while passing off has admitted that he never had a clue about the game anyway,
Juan Soler officially left office for Vicente Soriano on Wednesday and made an admitting statement to the Spanish sports daily AS. He admitted that he doesn’t know football and also made it clear that he has nothing to do with Valencia.
Soler told AS:
“I don’t know about football, so don’t ask me.
“Valencia is history for me as president and as shareholder. I am totally unrelated to the club and my people are also leaving. Soriano wil have absolute freedom to make decisions.
“I was proud to be with Valencia, and everything I did I did with my heart.”
Maybe if Juan Soler had done it with his head, the story of Valencia would have been quite different now. In his four years as the president of a club that won the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004 and the UEFA Cup in 2004, has won only the Copa del Rey (in 2008) and has sacked a number of coaches and sporting directors.