Exequiel Palacios

Exequiel Alejandro Palacios (Spanish pronunciation: [ekseˈkjel paˈla.sjos]; 5 October 1998) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen and the Argentina national team.

Exequiel Palacios
Personal information
Full name Exequiel Alejandro Palacios[1]
Date of birth (1998-10-05) 5 October 1998
Place of birth Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Bayer Leverkusen
Number 25
Youth career
0000–2015 River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2019 River Plate 48 (4)
2020– Bayer Leverkusen 6 (0)
National team‡
2015 Argentina U17 10 (1)
2017 Argentina U20 3 (0)
2018– Argentina 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:45, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Club career

Palacios is a youth exponent from Club Atlético River Plate. He made his league debut on 8 November 2015 against Newell's Old Boys.[2]

Palacios made his final appearance for his boyhood club in the final of the Copa Argentina on 13 December 2019, playing 79 minutes of a 3–0 victory over Central Córdoba.[3]

Bayer Leverkusen

On 16 December 2019, Bayer Leverkusen announced that Palacios would join the club on 1 January 2020, signing a five-and-a-half year deal.[4]

International career

Palacios made his international debut for Argentina on 8 September 2018 in a 3–0 international friendly against the Guatemala national football team.[5]

On 12 November 2020, Palacios fractured a bone in his spine during a 1–1 draw with Paraguay in a World Cup qualifier and was expected be out for three months. Palacios sustained the injury in an aerial duel with Angel Rmoero in the first half of the contest at La Bombonera and was replaced by Giovani Lo Celso, who took the corner from which Nicolas Gonzalez headed home Argentina's equaliser.[6]

Personal life

Palacios initially was noticed by the media in August 2018 with his well publicized relationship with Instagram model Sol Pérez. It quickly became public though that around the same time Palacios and Pérez had started their relationship, Palacios had also begun dating amateur actress, singer, and dancer Juliana Orellano. Both Pérez and Orellano quickly ended their relationship with Palacios after finding out that he was dating the other. There was more drama however as on 21 August it became known that Palacios had been in relationship with a neighborhood friend Karen Gramajo, a manicurist, for four years.[7] All three women angrily took to social media to protest Palacios' disloyalty.[8]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 1 November 2020[9]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
River Plate 2015 Argentine Primera División 10–––10
2016 Argentine Primera División 10–––10
2016–17 Argentine Primera División 801110–101
2017–18 Argentine Primera División 923030–152
2018–19 Argentine Primera División 1419213140404
2019–20 Argentine Primera División 1516240–253
Total 484195211409210
Bayer Leverkusen 2019–20 Bundesliga 302020—70
2020–21 Bundesliga 301020—60
Total 603040—130
Career total 5442252514010510

International
As of match played 13 October 2020[10]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Argentina 201820
201920
202010
Total50

Honours
River Plate[9]

References
  1. "Exequiel Alejandro Palacios News & Career". CopaLibertadores.com. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  2. "River Plate vs. Newell's Old Boys – 8 November 2015 – Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. "Central Córdoba (SdE) 0-3 River". Copa Argentina (in Spanish). 13 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. "Bayer 04 sign Exequiel Palacios". Bayer Leverkusen. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  5. https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2018/09/08/world/friendlies/argentina/guatemala/2805437/
  6. "Argentina's Palacios suffers fractured spine following aerial challenge". ESPN. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  7. "¿Otra amante de Exequiel Palacios?". Olé.com (in Spanish). 21 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  8. "Sol Pérez se olvidó de Exequiel Palacios y subió una foto infernal para que la extrañe". BolaVip (in Spanish). 23 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  9. "E. Palacios". Soccerway. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  10. "Palacios, Exequiel". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  11. "COPA LIBERTADORES 2019". CONMEBOL (in Spanish). 9 December 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  12. "RECOPA SUDAMERICANA 2019". CONMEBOL (in Spanish). 30 May 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
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