He was also a hurdler in the 1972 Olympic team, the police chief of Guayas and the president of Barcelona Sporting Club, a football team from his hometown.
In 2004 technical coach Severino Vasconcelos of Chilean Club de Deportes Santiago Morning asked him to join the club of coach Carlos Ramos.
Soler has interviewed various high-profile figures during her two decade career including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, Carlos Menem of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua, Abdalá Bucaram and Gustavo Noboa of Ecuador, and Ernesto Samper of Colombia.