Jesús Méndez

Jesús Méndez ( born August 1, 1984 in San Rafael ) (born Jesús David José Méndez ) is an Argentine football player.

Career

Jesús Méndez started his football career in the youth system of the Argentine top club River Plate in the country's capital, Buenos Aires. After debuting in 2004 as a 19- year-old in the first team, he was loaned for a year at Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, where he División with the crew of the Argentine Primera descent. In the season 2006/ 07 he was supposed to go to the Swiss first division club FC St. Gallen; he trained even for a few weeks with the team. Then Méndez was a complete surprise despite oral and written commitment ordered back for a Leihtransfer River Plate, as the newly hired coach Daniel Passarella wanted him to take a break in his squad. FC St. Gallen renounced his hand to turning on FIFA, because this step would have only meant that the player had been locked.

At River Plate Jesús Méndez then could not prevail as desired and spent the greatest time on the bench in months. Therefore, a transfer to FC St. Gallen in January 2007 was again a hot topic. The association communicated the definitive commitment of midfielder on January 28, the still young year. Méndez was equipped with a contract until 30 June 2010 and is likely to have changed for a transfer fee of 700,000 euros to the Ostschweizern. This is also the most expensive in the history of the since 1879 existing FC St. Gallen. The former sporting director René Weiler said he is relieved that the transfer in the second attempt but could still succeed, "Our long perseverance has paid off ," said the statement.

For the return round start of the 2006/07 season Méndez was seen as a beacon of hope par excellence and drove in his first part in Schaffhausen use the game-winning assist at. It should be his only. In the following weeks and months, Méndez did both on and off the pitch as well as extremely difficult. The young Argentine who could let his technical flash very rarely expressed great pains with the new environment, the language and the expectations of the audience. To a relief Méndez ' was also sports director at little hamlet. This had announced him in his obligation as a playmaker, although he in his previous stations mainly - had come as a defensive midfielder for use - playing the classic number 6.

The disappointing performance led to the unfortunate Méndez had to make do in St. Gallen with the role of the Joker, and only relatively few applications received minutes. In the meantime he was even in the U21, the second team of FC St. Gallen, moved. In January 2008, finally was the fact that had signed up: Jesús Méndez returned to only 29 inserts (no scoring ) in the jersey of the " aspen " on loan to Argentina to CA Rosario Central back.

In the summer of 2008 Méndez was - although never officially communicated from FC St. Gallen - definitely taken over from Rosario Central. Very little is known about the details of this deal. In his new employer, however, he fought his way after a difficult start a regular place in the starting lineup of the Argentine first division, is there now one of the favorites of the public.

After he had spent almost two years at Rosario Central, signed him in January 2010, the traditional club CA Boca Juniors.