  We study the soliton type solutions arising in two-dimensional quantum
chromodynamics (QCD$_{2}$). The so-called generalized sine-Gordon model (GSG)
arises as the low-energy effective action of bosonized QCD$_{2}$ for unequal
quark mass parameters, and it has been shown that the relevant solitons
describe the normal and exotic baryonic spectrum of QCD$_{2}$
[JHEP(03)(2007)(055)]. In the first part of this chapter we classify the
soliton and kink type solutions of the sl(3) GSG model. Related to the GSG
model we consider the sl(3) affine Toda model coupled to matter fields (Dirac
spinors)
  (ATM). It has been shown the confinement of the spinors inside the solitons
and kinks of the GSG model providing an extended hadron model for "quark"
confinement [JHEP(01)(2007)(027)]. In the second part of this chapter we
discuss the appearance of the constituent quarks in the context of bosonized
QCD$_{2}$ and the relevance of the $sl(2)$ ATM model in order to describe the
confinement of the color degrees of freedom. We have shown that QCD$_{2}$ has
quark soliton solutions if the quark mass is sufficiently large.
