Gary Medel

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Gary Medel
Gary Medel CHI2011.jpg
Personnel
Surname Gary Alexis Medel Soto
birthday 3rd August 1987
place of birth Santiago ,  Chile
size 171 cm
position Defensive midfield central
defender
Juniors
Years station
1997-2005 CD Universidad Católica
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2011 CD Universidad Católica 80 (12)
2009-2011 →  Boca Juniors  (loan) 48 0(7)
2011-2013 Sevilla FC 78 0(8)
2013-2014 Cardiff City 34 0(0)
2014-2017 Inter Milan 91 0(1)
2017-2019 Beşiktaş Istanbul 51 0(0)
2019– Bologna FC 13 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007– Chile 126 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: January 6, 2020

2 As of October 12, 2019

Gary Alexis Medel Soto (born August 3, 1987 in Santiago ) is a Chilean football player .

Career

society

Gary Medel comes from the youth of CD Universidad Católica , where he made his professional debut in 2005. He scored his first two goals two years later on July 28, 2007 against local rivals CF Universidad de Chile in the Clásico Universitario . He sealed the victory with his two goals and shot himself into the hearts of the fans.

In 2008 he was voted Footballer of the Year in Chile , ahead of Lucas Barrios . Because of this, but also because of his good performances, he was able to get hold of a regular place in the Chilean national team.

On July 20, 2009, his club reached an agreement with the traditional Argentinian club Boca Juniors on a loan from Medel. Only three days later it was officially presented to the Juniors . On March 25, 2010, he scored both goals in a 2-0 win over rival CA River Plate , but was also sent off in this game.

In the winter of 2010 he moved to the Spanish club Sevilla FC . In the summer of 2013 he was transferred to the Premier League team Cardiff City for the club's record fee of 11 million pounds .

After Cardiff's relegation to the Football League Championship , Medel moved to Serie A at Inter Milan in August 2014 for around eight million euros , where he signed a four-year deal.

After three years at Inter Milan , he moved to the Süper Lig to Beşiktaş Istanbul for 2 and a half million euros . There he made his debut on August 18, 2017 in a 2-2 draw against Kasımpaşa Istanbul .

In summer 2019 he returned to Serie A for FC Bologna . The Italians paid around 2 million euros for him.

National team

Medel took part in 2007 with the Chilean U-20 selection at the U-20 South American Championship in Paraguay and reached fourth place with his team, which qualified for participation in the U-20 World Cup in Canada . There he played with players like Arturo Vidal , Alexis Sánchez and Mauricio Isla . After the two 3-0 wins in the group stage against hosts Canada and Congo, they reached the round of 16 with a 0-0 win against Austria. There the team was able to eliminate the favorites Portugal 1-0 and won against Nigeria 4-0 in the next round after extra time. In the semifinals, the team failed 3-0 to Argentina after Medel was sent off the field in the 15th minute of the game. In the 1-0 win in the game for third place against Austria, he was suspended. During the U-20 World Cup, he played six games, but remained without a goal.

On April 19, 2007, he made his A international debut in a 0-0 win against Argentina . In May 2008 he took part in the tournament in Toulon with the Chilean U-23 national team. After the 5: 3 victory over France and the 2: 0 victories over the Netherlands and Japan, they won the semi-finals 2-1 against the Ivory Coast. The final was lost to Italy 0-1.

He scored his first two international goals in 2008 in a 2-0 win over Bolivia . After twelve games in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup and two goals scored, he was part of the Chilean squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa . Four years later, Medel was also part of Chile's selection for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , where the South Americans were eliminated in the round of 16 against the hosts.

successes

National team

Individually

Play style

Gary Medel is a versatile defensive midfielder and defender. He has a lot of ambition and always goes after the ball, which earned him the nicknames Pitbull and Chilean Gattuso .

Difficulties on and off the pitch

So far, numerous incidents have hampered Medel's career. So Medel received several bans so far, z. B. for gross fouls, a fight with a teammate or spitting at an opponent. In addition, he has already been arrested several times: in 2007 for driving under the influence of alcohol, in June 2012 for making death threats to a driver, and in October 2012 for harassing a journalist. After the elimination of the Chilean U-20 national team at the U-20 World Cup in Canada in 2007 , he was also involved with several other players in a dispute with the police, in which they used stun guns and pepper spray . In 2009 Medel was involved in a serious car accident and just a month later a young woman died in a fall from his balcony.

Web links

Commons : Gary Medel  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gary Medel in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Gary Medel in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
  • Gary Medel in the database of FIFA (English)
  • Gary Medel in the database of espndeportes.espn.go.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cardiff City smash club transfer record to sign Gary Medel from Sevilla , www.mirror.co.uk, 11 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Chile's national player Gary Medel moves to Inter Milan , www.t-online.de, August 13, 2014.
  3. ^ Gary Medel officially to Inter player , www.inter.it, August 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fix: Besiktas catches up with Gary Medel , accessed on April 25, 2020
  5. ↑ Gary Medel leaves Besiktas! , accessed April 25
  6. ↑ Cardiff City pitbull Gary Medel insists he's just a nice kind of crazy , www.sport.net, November 20, 2013.
  7. ^ Gary Medel arrested in Chile , www.football-espana.net, October 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ Chile launches formal protest ( Memento of August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), www.financialpost.com.
  9. ↑ Chile's Pitbull poised to savage Neymar's Brazil , www.reuters.com, June 25, 2014.
predecessor Office successor
Carlos Villanueva Chile's Footballer of the Year
2008 		Claudio Bravo
personal data
SURNAME Medel, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Medel Soto, Gary Alexis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile