Who is Facundo Medina, the young footballer who made his debut...

For some unsuspecting, perhaps the name of Facundo Medina has attracted the most attention after meeting the list of summoned by the technician of the Argentine National Team. Lionel Scaloni gave a gesture of confidence to the former player of Talleres de Córdoba, emerged in River, and is already shining in Ligue 1 in France.

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The left-hander, who unwound her in the last Argentine Super League playing for the T, was sold to the Racing Club de Lens, in an operation of 4 million euros That not only made the people of Cordoba happy, but also the Millionaire, a club where he was trained professionally and “humanely” as he himself once defined it.

Medina was born in Villa Fiorito, he grew up in the same place where a certain Diego Armano Maradona spent his childhood. He is 184 centimeters tall, weighs 78 kilos and can play as left back or second central scorer. He was trained at the Núñez club, where he barely played a friendly in the First Division, but his CV shows the winning of the 2016 Argentina Cup, since he was part of the team of Marcelo gallardo, who today, perhaps, regrets having let him go.

Although he had the Doll as a coach, he had few chances in his position since he had to fight for the position to Milton Casco and Nahuel Gallardo. In the Cordoba team, however, achieved the necessary continuity from the hand, first, of Juan Vojvoda, and, second, of Jesús Medina, an old friend of Gallardo. There, played 33 games and scored a goal, which earned him his place in the youth teams in charge of Fernando Batista.

He played the World Cup of the category in Poland 2019 and, in addition, he was one of the high points of the XI albiceleste in the Pre-Olympic Sub 23 in Colombia. An extensive tour with the Argentina shirt that now also had its chance in the major at the start of the World Cup cycle towards Qatar 2022: for the second date against Bolivia, in La Paz, Scaloni made him enter at 88 ‘for Lautaro Martínez, thus giving him the possibility of officially debuting with the Major.