Alberto Medina
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Full name | Alberto Medina Briseño | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 29 May 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2000–2012 | Guadalajara | 323 | (54) | ||||||||||||||
2006 | Chivas Coras Tepic[1] | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2007 | Tapatío[2] | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Pachuca | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Puebla | 31 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | → Chiapas (loan) | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Oaxaca | 25 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 |
Coras | 23 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 414 | (58) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
2003–2010 | Mexico | 55 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alberto Medina Briseño (born 29 May 1983) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a winger. He is known as El Venado (The Deer) due to his speed.
Club career
Medina made his professional debut for
Beto (Medina) had a tremendous start to the Clausura 2007 Tournament, he scored six goals in eighteen games in the league. One of his more amazing goals came in the Super Clasico game against rivals
On June 2, 2012, Chivas sold Medina to Pachuca due to the poor last two seasons he had. Medina played for Chivas from 2000 to 2012 where he registered 323 caps on the Mexican League with 52 goals, and 39 assists.
Later that year, on November 28, Pachuca confirmed that Medina was sold to Puebla F.C. for the next season.
International career
He was called upon once again to represent the Selección de fútbol de México (Mexico national team) during Hugo Sánchez's tenure as coach. He represented his country in the 2007 Gold Cup tournament where they were finalist. He also played in Venezuela in the Copa América 2007 where his country won 3rd place and only losing to Argentina in the semi-finals.
Alberto was recalled to the national team under coach Javier Aguirre's second stint. Medina made Aguirre's squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scoring in all the friendlies before the start of the tournament, but did not appear in any matches.
Career statistics
International
- As of match played 3 June 2010[3]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Mexico | 2003 | 2 | 0 |
2004 | 3 | 1 | |
2005 | 18 | 1 | |
2006 | 1 | 0 | |
2007 | 11 | 0 | |
2009 | 11 | 0 | |
2010 | 9 | 4 | |
Total | 55 | 6 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first.
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | November 10, 2004 | Alamodome, San Antonio, United States | Guatemala | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
2. | July 13, 2005 | Reliant Stadium, Houston, United States | Jamaica | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
3. | May 10, 2010 | Soldier Field, Chicago, United States | Senegal | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
4. | May 16, 2010 | Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, Mexico | Chile | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
5. | May 30, 2010 | Hans-Walter-Wild-Stadion, Bayreuth, Germany | Gambia | 5–1 | 5–1 | Friendly |
6. | June 3, 2010 | King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium | Italy | 2–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
Honours
Guadalajara
- Mexican Primera División: Apertura 2006
- InterLiga 2009
Mexico
References
External links
- Alberto Medina (Alberto Medina Briseño) at Liga MX (archive) (in Spanish)
- Alberto Medina (Alberto Medina Briseño) – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- Alberto Medina (Alberto Medina Briseño) at National-Football-Teams.com
- Chivas de Guadalajara official site (in Spanish)
- Alberto Medina at FootballDatabase.com