"Cacique" Alexander Medina takes on a new challenge: to manage Estudiantes | OneFootball

After the departure of Eduardo Domínguez, Estudiantes already has its new coach: Alexander Cacique Medina, who will face his first practice this Sunday afternoon and would make his debut in Rosario against Newell’s next Wednesday, February 25th at 19:30, for the seventh date of the Apertura.

The Uruguayan has not managed since April of last year, when he stopped being the coach of Talleres, his last club. He had a first cycle there between June 2019 and December 2021, where he managed to qualify for the 2021 Sudamericana, leave the team third in the annual standings, and get them into the 2022 Libertadores; and this recent one, which began in August 2024, where he managed to give "La T" the second trophy in its history: the International Super Cup against River, which is also his only title as a coach.

The main promoter of his arrival to the León's bench was Marcos Angeleri, the club's sporting director, who had also suggested Domínguez at the time and had Cacique as a coach when he played in Nacional, back in 2018.

It was at Bolso, in fact, where Medina made his debut as a coach; first as the Reserve team's coach in 2017 and taking charge of the First team a year later. Then, his cycles at Talleres and others at Inter de Porto Alegre (January 2022 – April 2022) and Granada (November 2023 – March 2024) followed, along with his memorable stint at Vélez (May 2022 – February 2023), where he managed to get the team to the Libertadores semifinals.

With Estudiantes, this season, the Uruguayan coach will face the Copa Libertadores again, a tournament he was in when he last managed "La T" and to which "El Pincha" qualified for being the champion of the Clausura 2025.

The balance of Cacique Medina as a coach

In his overall record as a coach, he has managed 238 matches, in which he obtained 100 victories, 63 draws, and 65 defeats according to Transfermarkt.

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