Maximiliano Meza | |
Full Name: | Maximiliano Eduardo Meza[1] |
Birth Date: | 15 December 1992 |
Birth Place: | Caá Catí, Argentina |
Height: | 1.81 m[2] |
Position: | Winger |
Youthclubs1: | Club Cambá Porá |
Youthclubs2: | Gimnasia y Esgrima |
Years1: | 2012–2016 |
Clubs1: | Gimnasia y Esgrima |
Caps1: | 100 |
Goals1: | 12 |
Years2: | 2016–2018 |
Clubs2: | Independiente |
Caps2: | 55 |
Goals2: | 6 |
Years3: | 2019–2024 |
Clubs3: | Monterrey |
Caps3: | 200 |
Goals3: | 29 |
Nationalyears1: | 2018–2022 |
Nationalteam1: | Argentina |
Nationalcaps1: | 11 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Club-Update: | 19:52, 15 August 2024 (UTC) |
Nationalteam-Update: | 02:13, 2 February 2022 (UTC) |
Maximiliano Eduardo Meza (born 15 December 1992) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger.[3] [4]
Meza, off a stint with Club Cambá Porá, was promoted into Gimnasia y Esgrima's first-team in 2012 and subsequently made his professional debut on 10 December against Deportivo Merlo in the Primera B Nacional, he made fourteen league appearances in total in Gimansia's promotion-winning season of 2012–13.[3] [4] [5] In the following season, Meza became a regular for the club as he made thirty-six appearances and scored five goals; the first five goals of his career. Over the next three league campaigns he made fifty-three appearances in all competitions while scoring seven goals, the last coming versus Colón on 23 May 2016.[3]
On 18 September 2016, a week after making his 100th league appearance for Gimnasia, he left the club to sign for fellow Primera División club Independiente. His Independiente debut came in a 2016 Copa Sudamericana Round of 16 match against Brazilian side Chapecoense on 22 September.[3] [4] During the 2017–18 season, Meza made nine appearances and scored three goals in Independiente's 2017 Copa Sudamericana winning campaign.[3]
In January 2019, Meza moved abroad and joined Mexican club Monterrey; signing a five-year contract.[6] He was assigned shirt number 32.[7] He made his Monterrey debut on 13 January 2019 against León, before scoring his first goal in his second appearance on 20 January versus Querétaro.[3] Later that year, Meza appeared eight times as the club won the CONCACAF Champions League; coming off the bench in both legs of the final against Tigres UANL.[3] [8] He was later part of the squads that won the 2019–20 Apertura and 2019–20 Copa MX.[3] Meza also appeared in three matches and scored once, versus Al Hilal, at the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup.[3]
In March 2018, Meza was called up to the senior squad for friendlies with Italy and Spain later that month.[9] [10] He made his debut on 27 March against Spain, playing the full ninety minutes of a 6–1 defeat at the Wanda Metropolitano.[3] [11] Meza was selected in Argentina's official squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 21 May, having previously made the preliminary squad on 14 May.[12] [13] He made his first World Cup appearance on 16 June versus Iceland.[3] He was part of a team that won the friendly Adidas Cup against Mexico in November 2018[14] [15] He made Lionel Scaloni's initial forty-man squad for the 2019 Copa América, but was removed for the final tournament.[16] [17]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Gimnasia y Esgrima | 2012–13 | Primera B Nacional | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
2013–14 | Argentine Primera División | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5 | ||
2014 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
2015 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 35 | 4 | ||||
2016 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | ||||
2016–17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
Total | 100 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 12 | |||
Independiente | 2016–17 | Argentine Primera División | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4[18] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 | |
2017–18 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14[19] | 3 | 2[20] | 0 | 36 | 7 | |||
2018–19 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4[21] | 0 | 1[22] | 0 | 17 | 2 | |||
Total | 55 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 83 | 11 | |||
Monterrey | 2018–19 | Liga MX | 19 | 2 | — | 8 | 0 | — | 27 | 2 | |||
2019–20 | 29 | 1 | 7 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | 39 | 4 | ||||
2020–21 | 36 | 7 | — | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 9 | ||||
Total | 84 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 103 | 15 | |||
Career total | 239 | 28 | 18 | 4 | 31 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 294 | 38 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Argentina | 2018 | 10 | 0 | |
2022 | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 11 | 0 |
Independiente[3]
Monterrey[8]
Apertura 2019
Individual