Julio Medina III

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Julio Medina III
Personal information
Full name Julio Antonio Medina III Morales
Date of birth (1976-07-14) 14 July 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Panama City, Panama
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Chorrillo (manager)
Youth career
Santa Gema
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996–2004 Árabe Unido 80 (22)
2004–2005 Águila 32 (8)
2005 Comunicaciones 29 (7)
2006 Marathón
2006–2007 Árabe Unido 33 (4)
2007–2010 Chorrillo 76 (18)
2011–2012 Árabe Unido
International career‡
1999–2008 Panama 44 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 Chorrillo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 July 2006
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 June 2015

Julio Antonio Medina Morales, also known as Julio Medina III (born 14 July 1976) is a retired football midfielder.

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He manages Liga Panameña de Futbol team Chorrillo.

Club career

Nicknamed Puchito, Medina started his career at Árabe Unido and played in Uruguay for Nacional and Platense [1] before moving abroad again to join Salvadoran side Águila in December 2004. [2] He left them in summer 2005 for Guatemalan giants Comunicaciones, [3] only to leave them after a season for Honduran outfit Marathón where he played alongside compatriot Donaldo González. [4]

After a return to Árabe Unido, the little free-kick specialist [5] joined Chorrillo in January 2007, the only other club he played for in Panama. [6]

International career

Medina made his debut for Panama in an October 1999 friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago and has earned a total of 44 caps, scoring no goals. [7] He represented his country in 21 FIFA World Cup qualification matches [8] and was a member of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup team, who finished second in the tournament. [9]

His final international was a June 2008 friendly match against Canada.

Managerial career

After retiring, Medina was named assistant at Árabe Unido [5] and later became manager of Chorrillo and immediately won the 2014 Clausura. [10] He was released by Chorrillo in April 2015. [11]

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