Eight phrases from Joker for Mario Soriano and Deportivo

“Anything that doesn’t kill you just makes you different.” He joker It was clear to me: “They laugh at me because I’m different. So I laugh because they are all the same”. A famous comic book character, born from a saga Batman, gained its own autonomy a few years ago, becoming a mass phenomenon. One of those who idolize him is Mario Soriano. He has it tattooed on his skin, covers half of his right arm, and shows it with every goal he celebrates with his palms raised to the sky. His game also evokes him: «Install a little anarchy, change the established order and chaos will reign. And do you know what chaos has? What’s fair.” Joker’s phrase perfectly defines Soriano’s performance on the green. Another player, who takes advantage of other people’s disorder to sow panic from the second line. “You want to know what the plans are? They’re useless, so I let life surprise me,” he said. is a comic book character in another of his most famous sentences.

Soriano, like the Joker, was reborn again and again. Last season, he arrived at the last moment and was barely significant for the team, until the middle of the league. But it started to play and deserve love Riazor based on important goals. Here he certainly kept to the words of his idol: “I spent my whole life not knowing if he really existed.” But I exist. And people are starting to notice.”

Although I had to return to Athletic After the loan, he did everything he could to get the Rojiblancos to transfer him to Dépor. “The Joker is back,” he wrote on his social networks when his signing was announced. And his start to the season couldn’t have been better: a double against Linares and another against Pontevedra. Three goals in the first two games of Riazor. Has he finally found his place?

“It only takes one bad day to turn the healthiest man in the world into a madman.” And Soriano began to give up his place in Déporo, like the Joker in Gotham. The Madrid man lost his head Badajoz, was sent off for a straight red card that his team eventually paid for in defeat, and his contributions began to diminish. Substitution against San Fernando and Mérida, his leadership as one of the stars of the project already seemed questionable. The ups and downs of youth, as the coach likes to remember Oscar Cano.

But Soriano, like the Joker, always comes back. On Saturday, against Badajoz, he atoned for his sins and was in charge of opening the goals against the opponent who damaged his mood the most. It was a release. There were five defenders in the zone and he quickly slipped through all of them and made a great assist Alberto Quiles. After scoring, he ran and ran parallel to the stands of the Pabellón and fell to the ground on his knees, waiting for his teammates to catch up with him. I used to think life was a tragedy, but now I see it’s a comedy, said his idol.

“I just hope that my death, when it comes, will have more meaning than my life.”

Nine of his ten goals for the blue and whites, at Riazor

Mario Soriano hasn’t seen the door in almost four months. From November 5, he managed to score in the away game against Algeciras (1-2) in the 11th round of the championship. Before that, he scored a double against Balompédic Linense (September 3) and another goal against Pontevedra (September 18).

With Badajoz on Saturday, Dépor’s 10 have five goals this season, equaling last season’s tally. In the last League, he converted three in the regular competition (Valladolid Promises, Dux Inter and Tudelano) and two in the promotion playoffs (Linares and Albacete).

Of the ten blue and white goals scored by Mario Soriano, nine were scored at the Riazor Stadium.