Eugenio Mena

Eugenio Mena
Mena in the 2013 international match against Spain
Personnel
Surname	Eugenio Esteban Mena Reveco
birthday	July 18, 1988
place of birth	Viña del Mar ,  Chile
size	175 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2008	Santiago Wanderers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2010	Santiago Wanderers
2010-2013	CF Universidad de Chile	67 (6)
2013-2015	FC Santos	35 (0)
2015-2017	Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte	6 (0)
2016	→  São Paulo FC  (loan)	20 (0)
2017	→  Sport Recife  (loan)	23 (0)
2018	EC Bahia	5 (1)
2018–	Racing Club Avellaneda	35 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010–	Chile	55 (3)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 28, 2020 2 As of February 17, 2019

Eugenio Esteban Mena Reveco (born July 18, 1988 in Viña del Mar ) is a Chilean football player who is under contract with the Racing Club Avellaneda in Argentina.

Career

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Eugenio Mena comes from the port city of Viña del Mar and began playing football in the neighboring city of Valparaíso at the traditional CD Santiago Wanderers club . From 2008 he played in the first team, which was then in Primera B , the second highest division in Chile. Just a year later, he was promoted to the Primera División with the club . After 16 first division appearances, he moved to the top club CF Universidad de Chile in mid-2010 .

At the capital city club he quickly became a regular player in defense with the left side of defense as the main position and won the club's first international title in 2011 with the Copa Sudamericana . In addition, his team won the semi-annual championship three times in a row in 2011 (Apertura and Clausura) and 2012 (Apertura) and won the cup the following year .

In the summer of 2013, FC Santos from the south of Brazil showed interest in Mena and he moved to the neighboring country on loan before he was signed in 2014 after he had established himself as a regular player. After two seasons, the player then moved to the Cruzeiro EC from Belo Horizonte .

National team

Eugenio Mena won the 2009 Toulon tournament with the country's junior selection . He was discovered for the Chilean national football team immediately after the Santiago Wanderers rose to the Primera División . On September 7, 2010, he made his first appearance in the national shirt as a substitute against Ukraine . But it was not until 2012 that he was regularly used in the Chilean team and was a regular player in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup , in which he played 10 times, benefiting from his versatility in various defensive positions. He was then added to the 23-man squad for the tournament in Brazil. At the World Cup, Mena played all three preliminary round matches in the left midfield position.

Web links

• Eugenio Mena in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Eugenio Mena in the database of weltfussball.de
• Eugenio Mena in the database of transfermarkt.de

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1. ↑ Eugenio Mena in the FIFA database , accessed on June 26, 2014