Jorge Antonio Soto is a retired Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

vian footballer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

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Career

Soto (Nicknamed "The Camel") is one of the all-time emblematic figures of Sporting Cristal

Sporting Cristal

Club Sporting Cristal is a Peruvian football team. Based in the Rímac District, in the department of Lima, it plays in the professional league known as the Peruvian First Division. Founded on November 16, 1926 in the Rimac District given its approval to the merger and Snuff Sporting merging with...

. He has played over 500 games for his club and scored more than 150 goals, making him the highest goal scorer in the club's history.

International career

Soto has been capped regularly in the national team

Peru national football team

The Peru national football team, known as 'el equipo inca', represents Peru in international football competition and is managed by the Peruvian Football Federation . The team competes against the other nine members of FIFA's CONMEBOL conference, which encompasses the countries of South America...

 since 1992. He was also member of Peru's U-23 squad of 1992. Soto has played in 101 official games for the Peruvian National Team and has scored 9 goals in official competition.

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