  It has been conjectured that at distances smaller than the confinement scale
but large enough to allow for nonperturbative effects, QCD is described by an
effective $SU(N_c {\times} N_f)_L\times SU(N_c {\times} N_f)_R$ chiral
Lagrangian. The soliton solutions of such a Lagrangian are extended objects
with spin ${1\over 2}$. For $N_c{=}3$, $N_f{=}3$ they are triplets of color and
flavor and have baryon number ${1\over3}$, to be identified as constituent
quarks. We investigate in detail the static properties of such
constituent-quark solitons for the simplest case $N_f{=}1, N_c{=}3$. The mass
of these objects comes from the energy of the static soliton and from quantum
effects, described semiclassically by rotation of collective coordinates around
the classical solution. The quantum corrections tend to be large, but can be
controlled by exploring the Lagrangian's parameter space so as to maximize the
inertia tensor. We comment on the acceptable parameter space and discuss the
model's further predictive power.
