He made his debut in February 2015 with the number 30, defending the shirt of the Zamora Football Club in his native Venezuela. Six years later, Yeferson Soteldo lhe wears on his back the number 10 of one of the most emblematic t-shirts of world football, that of Saints of Brazil, with which Pelé shone and with which he will play the Final of the Copa Liberators, When measured in Palm trees.
“I know what the story was like and he ordered the t-shirt 10”, Daus Francesco Stifano, Former coach and friend of today’s player Saints of Brazil, In an interview with Mediotiempo.
“He didn’t look great”
per Francesco it’s no surprise that “El Nan “, As they called him Soteldo in Zamora, he asked for the t-shirt to make him famous and mythical Edson Arantes of the Birth between 1956 and 1974 and with which it gained two titles of Copa Liberators and two Intercontinental Cup championships, a predecessor tournament to the now well-known Club World Cup FIFA.
“It is an immense joy what he is achieving, but que has got the t-shirt 10 does not surprise me because he says it is the 10 of the Saints because he is like that, and they give him the shirt with this emblematic number of Pelé and he didn’t have anything left, he has shown that he is for great things “, added Stifano, with whom Yeferson raise two titles in the First Division of Venezuelaa (Adequacy 2015 and First Division 2016).
And it was precisely in 2016 when Soteldo i Stifano they played their last tournament together. The 41-year-old coach still remembers the words the footballer, originally from the city of Acarigua in the state of Portuguesa, it said to him before leaving to field to dispute the Final of Going before Football Club Zulia on December 4, 2016 at Agustín Tovar Barinas Stadium.
“I remember very important anecdotes … in 2016 it was a very beautiful thing because the team was nervous about the warm-up. He hadn’t even changed and the big players would say to me, ‘Profe, the Dwarf is not ready’, And I was telling him ‘Let’s go Yeferson, let’s warm up’. Stadium full, the city paralyzed and he just took off his headphones and said to me, ‘calm down Profe I will take you champion’, and well it was, ”he recalled.
tonight Yeferson scored the second goal with which Zamora won the first duel 2-1. “The second or third play was taken by two and beat the goalkeeper. The next one he took two or three, they penalized him, they didn’t whistle him and Gabi Torres he ended up pushing it. “Seven days later they completed the work on the track of the Zulia with an overall score of 4-2.
Once embroidered the third star on the club’s coat of arms Zamora, Yeferson Soteldo was acquired by Huachipato, Team that transferred him in 2018 to the University of Chile. This was where Santos put his gaze on him. On January 15, 2019 he hires him and officially presents him as his new ‘10’.
He would be the second Venezuelan to win the CONMEBOL tournament
“He is an amazing player and an impressive person. Today we are great friends, I thank him for the shirt he sent to my son, he is very valuable to me, I wish him the best and with the nerves of tip because he will be the second Venezuelan to leave champion in Glass Liberating“He said.
And this Saturday Soteldo will seek to become the second Venezuelan footballer to raise the Liberators. The first was Alejandro Guerra, Winning with National Athletic of Colombia in 2016.