Alberto Medina

Football player infobox| playername= Alberto Medina


fullname = Alberto Medina Briseño
nickname = "Bambi"
"El Venado" (The Deer)
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|5|29
cityofbirth = Culiacán
countryofbirth = Mexico
height = height|m=1.72
currentclub = Chivas de Guadalajara
position = Forward
Right Wing Midfielder
Left Wing Midfielder
clubnumber = 10
years = 2000–
clubs = Chivas de Guadalajara
caps(goals) = 216 (38)
nationalyears = 2003–
nationalteam = Mexico
nationalcaps(goals) = 037 0(8)
pcupdate = 1 June 2007
ntupdate = 15 July 2007

Alberto Medina Briseño (born May 29, 1983 in Culiacán, Sinaloa) is a
Mexican football player for Chivas de Guadalajara alternating between Forward and Attacking Midfielder wearing number 10.

Biography

Nicknamed by fans as "El Venado" (The Deer), Medina amazes spectators with his lightning-quick speed, skillful dribbling along both left and right wings, and precise passes and crosses.

Medina made his professional debut for Chivas on August 8, 2000 at only 17 years old, and won an award for most promising player. He started playing for Chivas with Omar Bravo and with a cousin named Ramon Rangel. All three of them were strikers. They would all play in their home towns in Mexico and were main attractions because of their style of play, but Rangel did not have as much luck as Alberto and Omar because of a knee injury and had to stop playing on the team. But Rangel was not the only one that had an injury, because Alberto's soccer career came in jeopardy after a devastating knee injury in early 2004, but returned for the later part of Clausura 2003 to become Chivas' main attacking threat. Alberto "El Venado" Medina (at time of reporting) had seven goals in the Apertura 2006, alongside his partners Adolfo Bautista and Omar Bravo, and he was a major factor in Chivas' Championship win for the Apertura 2006 Tournament. Beto (Medina) had a tremendous start to the Clausura 2007 Tournament, he scored six goals in eighteen games in the league. One of his more recent amazing goals was a spectacular lob over Atlante's goalkeeper Federico Vilar from the far right side of the pitch. Medina is part of spectacular attacking duo in the pitch alongside his best friend and teammate Omar Bravo, they terrorize defenders through either flank in the field often switching sides on either wing to confuse the rival team. Time and time again Alberto has shown that he is an important part of Chivas.

Mexican national team

Ricardo Lavolpe had been impressed with Medina's prodigious skills, and called him to be in Mexico's national team many times, be it for friendly matches in 2003, the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, or for the 2005 Confederations Cup in Germany as a substitute for senior players such as Jared Borgetti or fellow Chivas player Ramón Morales. Medina has 37 caps for Mexico registering 2 goals.

He has been called upon once again to represent the Mexican National Football Team this time by new head coach Hugo Sanchez.He represented his country in the 2007 Gold Cup tournament where they were finalist. He also played in Venezuela in the Copa América 2007 where his country won 3rd place and only losing to Argentina in the semi-finals.

Honors

Club

Chivas de Guadalajara
* "' "Mexican Championship" - Apertura 2006

External links

* [http://www.chivasdecorazon.com.mx/ Chivas de Guadalajara Official site] (in Spanish)
* [http://www.footballdatabase.com/index.php?page=player&Id=831&pn= FootballDatabase.com provides Alberto Medina's profile and stats]
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