Marco Medel

Marco Medel
Medel with Santiago Wanderers in 2014
Personal information
Full name Marco Antonio Medel De la Fuente
Date of birth (1989-06-30) 30 June 1989 (age 37)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Santiago City
Number 10
Youth career
2002–2006 Audax Italiano
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2014 Audax Italiano 135 (19)
2011 → Colo-Colo (loan) 24 (2)
2012–2013 Audax Italiano B 8 (6)
2014–2015 Santiago Wanderers 28 (6)
2015–2016 Universidad Católica 25 (0)
2016–2017 O'Higgins 23 (1)
2017–2021 Santiago Wanderers 117 (9)
2021 Magallanes 9 (0)
2022–2024 Deportes Copiapó 70 (0)
2025– Santiago City 6 (2)
International career‡
2009 Chile U20 4 (0)
2009–2011 Chile U23 7 (0)
2015 Chile 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 5 May 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 January 2015

Marco Antonio Medel de la Fuente (born 30 June 1989) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Santiago City.

Club career

Medel had started in the lower divisions of Audax Italiano which would debut in 2007 when the club was going through a great time having great figures like Carlos Villanueva, Fabian Orellana or Franco Di Santo, among others. Gradually he was taking regularly since his debut coming to play the 2008 Copa Libertadores but would consolidation in 2009.

On his return to Audax Italiano again would be one of the key pieces of equipment, with figure of this for the following seasons but all end abruptly in mid-2014 when he and two other players rescind contract by not cumplírseles respective clauses, 3 after this sign Huachipato as a free player but with the sale of the club to a sporting society handover would fall finally saturating in the Santiago Wanderers.

On 2 September 2021, Medel moved to Magallanes in the Primera B de Chile after being released from Santiago Wanderers.

International career

Medel debuted in the Chile national under-20 football team led by Ivo Basay in friendly matches with Argentina and Uruguay before being summoned to the Under-20 2009 South American Championship which took place in Venezuela5 where his team failed to qualify for the world cup category. That same year the Under-21s to dispute the hopes 2009 Toulon Tournament where Chile tournament champion being crowned undisputed owner of that team.

He got his first call up to the senior Chile squad for a friendly against the United States in January 2015 and made his international debut in the match. He was named in the preliminary squad for the 2015 Copa America but was omitted from the final squad.

Honours

Universidad Católica

Santiago Wanderers

Chile U21

References

  1. ↑ "Marco Medel es el nuevo refuerzo de Magallanes" (in Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Chile boss Jorge Sampaoli names home-based squad for USA friendly". ca2015.com. 21 January 2015. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Sampaoli confirms final Chile squad for Copa America". goal.com. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.