Luis Mejía

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Luis Mejía
Personnel
Surname	Luis Mejía Cajar
birthday	March 16, 1991
place of birth	Panama City ,  Panama
size	190 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
2007-2009	Centro Atlético Fénix
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
at least 2007	Tauro FC
2009	RCD Mallorca B
2010-2011	Centro Atlético Fénix	13 (0)
2011	→  Toulouse FC  (loan)	0 (0)
2011	→ Toulouse FC B (loan)	8 (0)
2011-2015	Centro Atlético Fénix	76 (0)
2015–	→  Nacional Montevideo  (loan)	1 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
at least 2007 - at least 2011	Panama U-20	at least 8 (0)
at least 2010	Panama U-21	at least 2 (0)
at least 2012	Panama U-23	at least 7 (0)
2009–	Panama	at least 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of January 10, 2017

Luis Mejía , full name Luis Mejía Cajar , (born March 16, 1991 in Panama City ) is a Panamanian football player .

Career

society

The 1.90-meter-tall goalkeeper Mejía, called "Manotas", will play for the Panamanian club Tauro FC in the 2006/07 and 2007/08 seasons . In 2007 he made his debut there in the first team, in the same year moved to Centro Atlético Fénix in Uruguay and was a member of the Uruguayan club's youth team until 2009. At the Punta Cup 2009 he was named the best goalkeeper of the tournament. In 2009 he left the Uruguayans, however, initially for an engagement with the B-team of the RCD Mallorca in Spain. In January 2010 he was signed again by Fénix. Mejía completed 13 games in the Primera División for the Uruguayan team in the 2010/11 season . He benefited from an injury to regular goalkeeper Danilo Lerda at the end of August 2010 in the game against Tacuarembó FC , which paved his way to the first team. He made his debut in Uruguay's top division in Parque Central against Nacional Montevideo . In early January 2011, he moved to the French club FC Toulouse on loan . He was not used in Ligue 1 . However, there are eight matches with his participation in the B team of the club. For the 2011/12 season he rejoined the Fénix team. By the end of the 2013/14 season, he had played 57 top division games with the Montevideans since his return (2011/12: 12 games / 0 goals; 2012/13: 27/0; 2013/14: 18/0). In the 2014/15 season he was used 19 times in the top Uruguayan league. At the end of July 2015, he moved within the league as part of a loan deal to Nacional Montevideo. At his new club, the first-season goalkeeper Gustavo Munúa was his coach, who had ended his playing career after the season. In the 2015/16 season he was used once in the league and the Copa Libertadores 2016 . In the 2016 season he was without a competitive game, but won the Uruguayan championship with the team.

National team

Mejía was a member of the Panamanian U-20 squad that took part in the 2007 U-20 World Cup in Canada and the 2011 U-20 World Cup in Colombia . There he was used in three tournament matches. In the CONCACAF U-20 championship 2011 he was used twice. He also played two internationals for the U-21s at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico in 2010 . He was also used in seven games of the CONCACAF Olympic qualification in the U-23 Panamas in 2012 . On June 7, 2009 / June 8, 2009 he made his debut in the 3-2 defeat in the friendly international match against Jamaica in the senior national team of Panama . By the end of February 2013, he had four official A-internationals in Panama. At the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2011 and 2013 , an international match will be made for him. On March 22, 2013 and March 26, 2013 he ran in the two World Cup qualifying games against Jamaica and Honduras. He also took part in the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup , where he played his only tournament in the third place match.

successes

• Best goalkeeper at the Punta Cup: 2009
• 2nd place CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2013
• 3rd place CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2015
• Uruguayan champion: 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile on footballdatabase.eu , accessed on November 9, 2014
2. ↑ Luis Mejía, la pesadilla de los grandes ( Memento of the original of November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on fepafut.com on February 28, 2013, accessed on November 9, 2014 
3. ↑ Fénix contrato a arquero Panameño (Spanish) in La República of 21 January 2010, accessed on November 9, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Profile on soccerway.com , accessed January 10, 2017
5. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on fichajes.com , accessed on January 17, 2015
6. ^ Mejía al fútbol francés (Spanish) on panamafutbol.com of December 8, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2014
7. ↑ Luis Mejía, la pesadilla de los grandes ( Memento of the original of November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on fepafut.com on February 28, 2013, accessed on November 9, 2014 
8. ↑ Luis Mejía in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English), accessed on November 9, 2014
9. ↑ Manotas en el bolsillo (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of July 29, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2015
10. ^ Profile on fifa.com , accessed on November 9, 2014
11. ↑ Jamaica vs. Panama 3-2 on soccerway.com, accessed November 9, 2014
12. ↑ Luis Mejía, la pesadilla de los grandes ( Memento of the original of November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on fepafut.com on February 28, 2013, accessed on November 9, 2014 
13. ^ Profile on fifa.com , accessed on November 9, 2014
14. ↑ Manotas en el bolsillo (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of July 29, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2015