Marco Medel

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Marco Medel
Personal information
Full name	Marco Antonio Medel De la Fuente
Date of birth	(1989-06-06) 6 June 1989
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Playmaker
Club information
Current club	Audax Italiano
Number	14
Youth career
2002–2006	Audax Italiano
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2007–	Audax Italiano	83	(13)
2011	→ Colo-Colo (loan)	24	(2)
National team^‡
2009	Chile U20	4	(0)
2009	Chile U23	7	(0)
2011	Chile	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 April 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 September 2011

Marco Antonio Medel de la Fuente (born June 6, 1989 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean footballer, who in 2007 He does his first apparition for the Chilean team Audax Italiano. He is part of the Chilean National team U-20 that will participate in the South American tournament to be played in Venezuela. From this tournament, the representatives of South America to the U-20 World Cup will be known.

Club career

Colo-Colo

During the summer transfer window of 2011 reports began to emerge in late January that a deal had been reached to bring Medel to Colo-Colo in a barter with Audax Italiano that included the goalkeeper Francisco Prieto. On 31 January, it was announced that he completed his move to Colo-Colo in a one-year loan with purchase option, without the barter of Prieto.

Medel made his competitive debut in a 5–2 loss with Cerro Porteño as a starter, playing the full 90 minutes in a Copa Libertadores match, on 17 February 2011. Despite of his very good talent, he made a poor season, under the coach Américo Gallego, scoring only one goal in a 1–1 draw with Deportes Iquique in eight games that he played during the Apertura Tournament.

In the second semester of 2011, after the departure of Gallego, Medel was more considered in the starting lineup by the interim coach Luis Pérez for the Clausura Tournament.

International career

In January 2009, Medel was nominated by the coach Ivo Basay for play in the South American Youth Championship at Venezuela, in this tournament was a key player in the scheme of the coach, but unfortunately Chile was eliminated in the first round.

In July 2009, again was nominated by Basay to the youth national team for play with Chile, now in the Toulon Tournament. Once more Medel was a key player in the team, but now proclaiming champion of this tournament along with his teammates.

On 2 September 2011, Medel was called up by the coach Jaime Vera for play in the national team against Mexico at the Alfonso Lastras Ramírez Stadium. He played in a U-25 team that was tested for find alternatives in the adult team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification. The match played against Mexico was won 3–1.

External links

v t e Audax Italiano – current squad

1 Sánchez 2 Menéndez 3 Oviedo 4 Bosso 5 Silva 6 Vegas 7 Drocco 8 Vásquez 9 Mora 10 Medel 11 Carrasco 12 Valdés 13 Bravo 14 Saavedra 15 Rieloff 16 Delgado 17 Vásquez 18 Ramírez 19 Olarra 20 Meneses 21 Sánchez 22 Vallejos 23 Cornejo 24 Reyes 25 Muñoz 26 Zalazar 27 Melivilú 28 González 29 Gaete Manager: Rubilar

v t e 2010 Primera División Team of the Tournament

GK: Johnny Herrera DF: Boris Rieloff DF: Sebastián Toro DF: Mauricio Victorino DF: Matías Campos Toro MF: Felipe Seymour MF: Rodrigo Millar MF: Marco Medel FW: Carlos Muñoz FW: Roberto Gutiérrez FW: Mauro Olivi

Persondata
Name	Medel, Marco
Alternative names
Short description	Chilean footballer
Date of birth	1989-06-06
Place of birth	Chile
Date of death
Place of death

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