Stefan Medina

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Stefan Medina
Medina with Colombia in 2022
Personal information
Full name John Stefan Medina Ramírez[1]
Date of birth (1992-06-14) 14 June 1992 (age 31)[1]
Place of birth Envigado, Colombia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Right-back
Team information
Current team
Monterrey
Number 33
Youth career
Atlético Nacional
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2014 Atlético Nacional 88 (3)
2014– Monterrey 259 (9)
2016–2017Pachuca (loan) 49 (4)
International career
2009 Colombia U17 2 (0)
2013– Colombia 30 (0)
Medal record
 Colombia
Copa América Centenario
Bronze medal – third place 2016 United States
2021 Copa América
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Brazil
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:21, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 September 2022 (UTC)

John Stefan Medina Ramírez (born 14 June 1992) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays for Liga MX club Monterrey and the Colombia national team. Initially, Medina debuted for Atlético Nacional as a centre-back. As time progressed, he has shown to be comfortable playing as a right-back and on some occasions as a defensive midfielder.[2]

Club career

Atlético Nacional

A youth product of Nacional's academy, Medina played as a starter in the youth squad for one season before making his senior debut in 2011. Eventually, he gained a spot in the senior squad in 2012 after making occasional appearances. He was given the number 2 shirt in tribute to the late Andrés Escobar who also wore the same shirt, mostly because he's managed to avoid committing fouls as a defender by making good challenges. He has been liken to the late Nacional legend because of this.

Medina finished his career with Nacional in 2014, winning 6 domestic trophies over the course of 4 seasons.

Monterrey

On 30 May 2014 the Mexican club

Leones Negros, stating that while he was pleased with his debut, he still needed more time to fully adapt to Mexican football.[4]

He was a regular starter for the team throughout the entire

Cesar Montes
in the centre-back position.

Pachuca

On 28 November 2015, Rayados de Monterrey announced that Medina had been transferred to

Pachuca on a season-long deal, in exchange for Miguel Ángel Herrera.[5] He made his debut for Pachuca on 9 January 2016 playing 90 minutes in a draw against Club Tijuana
.

He won the

Finals
.

Return to Monterrey

On June 7, 2017, it was announced that his loan with Pachuca was terminated and he returned to Monterrey, with Cesar Montes, Nicolas Sanchez and Jose Maria Basanta all part of the center back position he was positioned in the right–back role.[6]

He was an integral part of the team as the starting right–back as they reached the finals of the

Apertura 2017
cup against former team Pachuca.

In 2019 with the arrival of Miguel Layún he was again moved to the centre-back position and excelled at the role, playing a vital role in the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League title win against Tigres UANL.[7]

International career

Medina has been called up by the youth national squads on numerous occasions. In 2009, he was part of the team that finished fourth in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria, appearing in two matches.

He earned his first cap for Colombia on 10 September 2013 against Uruguay.

Medina was regularly called on to the squad after his second cap, but suffered an ankle injury on April 24, 2014, thus forcing him to miss out on the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[8]

Medina wasn't called up for the squad again until early 2015, in a friendly against Bahrain and Kuwait, where he played in Colombia's 6–0 victory against Bahrain.[9]

In May 2018 he was named in Colombia's preliminary 35 man

2018 World Cup in Russia.[10] However, he did not make the final cut to 23.[11]

He was included in the final cut of the 23-man list for the

Honours

Atlético Nacional

Pachuca

Monterrey

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b c "FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019: List of Players: CF Monterrey" (PDF). FIFA. 5 December 2019. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Stefan Medina, un joven bien preparado para ser campeón".
  3. ^ "Confirmado Stefan Medina jugará en el fútbol mexicano - ComuTricolor.com". comutricolor.com. Archived from the original on 2014-05-31.
  4. ^ http://www.aporelmundial.com/actualidad-liga-mx-medina-todavia-no-estoy-totalmente-adaptado/10864/
  5. ^ Stefan Medina va a Tuzos a prestamo por un año
  6. ^ "Stefan Medina regresa a Rayados por su revancha". Mediotiempo. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  7. ^ "Dorlan Pabón, Stefan Medina y Avilés Hurtado se coronaron campeones de Concachampions". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  8. ^ "Se confirmó la lesión de Stefan Medina, será operado - ComuTricolor.com". comutricolor.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-24.
  9. ^ ""Espero poder estar con la Selección en Copa América": Stefan Medina".
  10. ^ "Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - Final 23-man lists | Goal.com".
  11. ^ "Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez named in Colombia's World Cup squad | Goal.com". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12.
  12. ^ "Lista Selección Colombia: Los 23 convocados a Copa América". AS Colombia (in Spanish). 2019-05-30. Retrieved 2019-06-04.