Maximiliano Meza
Meza with Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Maximiliano Eduardo Meza[1]
Date of birth (1992-12-15) 15 December 1992[1]
Place of birth Caá Catí, Argentina[2]
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[3]
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Monterrey
Number 11
Youth career
Club Cambá Porá
Gimnasia y Esgrima
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2016 Gimnasia y Esgrima 100 (12)
2016–2018 Independiente 55 (6)
2019– Monterrey 177 (25)
International career‡
2018–2022 Argentina 11 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:19, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:13, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Maximiliano Eduardo Meza (born 15 December 1992) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Monterrey.[2][4]

Club career

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.[2][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.[2]

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.[2][4] During the 2017–18 season, Meza made nine appearances and scored three goals in Independiente's 2017 Copa Sudamericana winning campaign.[2] Ahead of January 2019, Meza completed a move to Mexico by joining Monterrey of Liga MX; signing a five-year contract.[6] He was assigned shirt number 32.[7]

Meza made his Monterrey debut on 13 January 2019 against León, before scoring his first goal in his second appearance on 20 January versus Querétaro.[2] 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.[2][8] He was later part of the squads that won the 2019–20 Apertura and 2019–20 Copa MX.[2] Meza also appeared in three matches and scored once, versus Al Hilal, at the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup.[2]

International career

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.[2][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.[2] 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]

Career statistics

Club

As of 16 May 2021[2][4]
Club statistics
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Gimnasia y Esgrima 2012–13 Primera B Nacional 14020—00160
2013–14 Argentine Primera División 365000000365
2014 7010000080
2015 32430—00354
2016 9310—00103
2016–17 2010—0030
Total 1001280000010812
Independiente 2016–17 Argentine Primera División 252104[lower-alpha 1]000302
2017–18 1931114[lower-alpha 2]32[lower-alpha 3]0367
2018–19 111114[lower-alpha 4]01[lower-alpha 5]0172
Total 55632223308311
Monterrey 2018–19 Liga MX 192—8[lower-alpha 6]0—272
2019–20 29172—3[lower-alpha 7]1394
2020–21 367—1[lower-alpha 6]200389
Total 841072923110315
Career total 239281843156129438
  1. ↑ Appearance(s) in Copa Sudamericana
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana
  3. ↑ Appearance(s) in Recopa Sudamericana
  4. ↑ Appearance(s) in Copa Libertadores
  5. ↑ Appearance in Suruga Bank Championship
  6. 1 2 Appearance(s) in CONCACAF Champions League
  7. ↑ Appearance(s) in FIFA Club World Cup

International

As of match played 1 February 2022[2]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Argentina 2018100
202210
Total110

Honours

Independiente[2]

Monterrey[8]

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 "FIFA World Cup Russia 2018: List of Players: Argentina" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Maximiliano Meza profile". Soccerway. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "FIFA Club World Cup Qatar 2019: List of Players: CF Monterrey" (PDF). FIFA. 5 December 2019. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 December 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Maximiliano Meza profile". ESPN FC. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Maximiliano Meza, de Caá Catí al mundo". Ser Argentino. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "Meza fue vendido a Rayados de Monterrey". TyC Sports. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "Meza fue presentado en Monterrey". IAM Noticias. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Monterrey secure aggregate win over Tigres in CONCACAF Champions League final". ESPN. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "Lista de convocados". Argentine Football Association. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "Jorge Sampaoli dio la lista de jugadores locales para los amistosos de la selección: Maximiliano Meza, la sorpresa". La Nación. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "Spain 6-1 Argentina: goals, as it happened, report". AS. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Lionel Messi, Paulo Dybala highlight 35-man Argentina World Cup squad". ESPN. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "Argentina World Cup squad: Paulo Dybala included but Mauro Icardi misses out on 23-man group for Russia". The Independent. 21 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "Argentina derrota a México y se queda con la Copa Adidas 2018". 17 November 2018.
  15. ↑ "Argentina vs. Mexico - 17 November 2018 - Soccerway".
  16. ↑ "Los 40 preseleccionados por Lionel Scaloni para la Copa América". Marca. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  17. ↑ "Lista de convocados para la Copa América". Marca. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  18. ↑ "Funes Mori, Ochoa highlight 2021 SCCL Team Of The Tournament". CONCACAF Champions League. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
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