Juan Carlos Socorro Vera and UD Lanzarote have reached an agreement to join forces for the 2024-2025 season, a campaign in which the rojillo team will once again compete in group XII of the Third Federation. The Spanish-Venezuelan coach will be in charge of leading the sports project that UD Lanzarote is putting together from the bench, with the aim of fighting for the top positions in the standings, as the team has done in recent campaigns.
UD Lanzarote will have on the bench a coach with extensive experience in the national category, with two promotions to the Second RFEF in his record. The first was achieved with Panadería Pulido San Mateo in the 2020-2021 season and the second in the 2022-2023 campaign with UD San Fernando.
After several seasons as a coach in the training categories, Juan Carlos Socorro joined the coaching staff of UD Las Palmas in the 2011/2012 campaign, working as second coach first with Juan Manuel Rodríguez and then with Sergio Lobera. In the 2015-2016 season he became the first coach of Panadería Pulido San Mateo, achieving in his first campaign the promotion to the Third Federation from the Regional Preferente of Las Palmas, and years later the promotion to the Second RFEF.
In the 2022-2023 campaign he joined the ranks of UD San Fernando, with the firm purpose of returning the team from the south of Gran Canaria to the Second RFEF. After qualifying among the top five in the category, San Fernando achieved promotion by overcoming three rounds. In the last campaign, Juan Carlos Socorro continued on the bench of UD San Fernando, being the coach in Segunda RFEF and living his second experience in the fourth national category of Spanish football.
In the national category, Juan Carlos Socorro has managed 307 official matches as first coach; 70 with UD San Fernando and 237 with Panadería Pulido San Mateo. He has to his credit a promotion to the Third Federation and two promotions to the Second RFEF, which make him one of the most successful coaches in the archipelago today.
The official presentation of Juan Carlos Socorro as coach of UD Lanzarote for the 2024-2025 season will take place on Monday, July 01. A presentation in which he will be accompanied by the president of the entity, Juan Carlos Albuixech, and in which details of the new sports project of the rojillo club will be given.