Alexander Medina

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Alexander Medina
Personnel
Surname Alexander Jesús Medina Reobasco
birthday August 8, 1978
place of birth Salto ,  Uruguay
size 179 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995-1996 Ferrocaril de Salto ?? (??)
1997 Fritsa de Tacuarembó ?? (??)
1998-1999 Huracan Buceo ?? (??)
2000-2001 Central Español ?? (??)
2002-2003 Liverpool Montevideo 58 (35)
2004-2005 Nacional Montevideo 48 (32)
2005-2007 Cádiz FC 47 0(6)
2007-2008 Racing de Ferrol 30 0(3)
2008-2009 Nacional Montevideo ?? (??)
2009 Arsenal de Sarandí 13 0(0)
2010 Unión Española 22 0(5)
2011 River Plate Montevideo 8 0(4)
2011-2014 Nacional Montevideo 51 (14)
2014-2015 Centro Atlético Fénix 16 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006 Uruguay 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: December 25, 2015 (end of career)

Alexander Medina , full name Alexander Jesús Medina Reobasco (born August 8, 1978 in Salto , Uruguay ) is a former Uruguayan football player .

Career

society

From the Torneo Apertura 1998, the Medina, also known as "Cacique", will be run with the association of the Uruguayan first division club Huracán Buceo . In 2000 he played in the Segunda División for Central Español and played the so-called Torneo Clasificatorio with this club in the 2001 first division . Apertura and Clausura 2002 he spent again in the Uruguayan second division, this time in the colors of Liverpool Montevideo . The promotion followed another year for this club in the Primera División . In total, he scored 35 goals in 58 games in the course of his club membership, with 22 goals in 31 games in the first division season even had the better goal rate and was top scorer of the Uruguayan Primera División . Medina, who was already under contract with Nacional , was able to secure this title in the following year. His goal yield of 26 goals achieved in 33 games was also achieved by Carlos Bueno , with whom he had to share these merits. In the following season he won his first Uruguayan championship title in the shortened mid-season, in which Uruguayan football was based on the European game rhythm with a division of the season at the turn of the year instead of the middle of the year as before. After this championship season, in which his personal statistics showed 15 games and six goals, Medina dared the step abroad and joined the Spanish first division club FC Cádiz . After two seasons (47 appearances / 6 goals) he moved to Racing de Ferrol within Spain . Used in 30 encounters in the 2007/08 season, he achieved only three goals. As a result, he returned to the Apertura 2008 in Uruguay, rejoined Nacional and won the 2008/09 championship with his teammates. Again he left the Montevidean club to go abroad. Instead of Europe, this time the neighboring country Argentina was the destination. There he played 13 first division games (no goal) of the Apertura 2009 for Arsenal de Sarandí . In 2010 he moved to Chile to Unión Española . For the club from Santiago he scored five goals in 22 games of Apertura 2010. For Torneo Clausura 2011 he returned to his home country and played there in Clausura 2011 for the first division team River Plate Montevideo (eight games, four goals). Since the 2011/12 season he is now in the ranks of the Bolsos for the third time , to whose renewed championship honors that season he contributed eight goals in 23 appearances. During his engagements at Nacional he was also used at international club level and played a total of 26 games in the Copa Libertadores competitions in 2004 , 2005 , 2009 (eight games / one goal), 2012 (2/0) and 2013 (3/0) . In the 2012/13 season there are 24 Primera División appearances for him, in which he scored five goals. In the 2013/14 season he played four top division games (one goal) and one game in the 2014 Copa Libertadores (no goal). After the season he left the Montevideans and joined Centro Atlético Fénix in mid-August 2014 , where he was given the shirt number 9. There he was used in 16 first division games (two goals) in the 2014/15 season. After the end of the season, he ended his career.

National team

Medina played his only international match for the Uruguayan national team on March 1, 2006 under national coach Gustavo Ferrín when he came on as a substitute for Diego Forlán in the 87th minute of the friendly at Anfield against England .

successes

  • 3 × Uruguayan champions (2005, 2008/09 and 2011/12)
  • 2 × top scorer of the Uruguayan Primera División (2003 and 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the top scorer of the Primera División on the website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  2. ↑ a b c Profile on fichajes.com , accessed January 17, 2015
  3. ↑ Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from August 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 12, 2012
  4. ↑ Alexander Medina in the ESPN database (English). Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Fénix: Medina llegó a Capurro y tuvo minutos en cancha; Fabricio Silva en la zaga (Spanish) on tenfield.com.uy on August 15, 2014, accessed on August 25, 2014
  6. ↑ Alexander Medina in the soccerway.com database. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Nacional parecía la casa de Gran Hermano (Spanish) on foxsportsla.com from August 6, 2015, accessed on December 25, 2015
  8. ↑ Alexander Medina: “Me duele mucho esta situación” (Spanish) on ovaciondigital.com.uy from December 1, 2015, accessed on December 25, 2015
  9. ↑ Uruguay - International Matches 2006-2010 on rsssf.com, accessed June 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Medina, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Medina Reobasco, Alexander Jesús (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Salto , Uruguay