Nicolás Esteban Medina Ríos

Nicolás Rubén Medina ( born February 17, 1982 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine footballer who currently División Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in La Liga, the highest football league in Argentina, operates.

Club career

Medina played between 1997 and 2001 at Argentinos Juniors and moved to the 2001/02 season for £ 3.5 million for Sunderland in the English Premier League. There, the young midfielder was able to prevail and never became one of the most expensive failures purchases the club's history. In two years, he came only to a single insert in the first team of Sunderland in an FA Cup match against Bolton Wanderers he replaced. In 2003 he was for a year at the Spanish Club CD Leganés in the Segunda División B given before he left and joined Sunderland on a season the Spanish second division side Real Murcia. In 2005 he returned to Argentina and was there ever since for various clubs in use.

National

Medina was a regular player of the U20 national team succeeded as the title during the Junior World Championship 2001 in their own country. 2004 Medina was a reserve player in the squad of the Argentine Olympic team, which was in Athens Olympic champion.

His only previous use in the senior national team of Argentina had Medina on 5 September 2004 he appeared as a substitute in the World Cup qualifier against Peru in the 82nd minute for Carlos Tévez. In the Copa America 2004 Medina was indeed in the squad, but remained without use.

• Born in 1982
• Man
• National football team (Argentina )
• Argentine
• Olympic Champions (Football )
• Olympian (Argentina )