Exequiel Palacios

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

Club Career

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

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 Cordoba.

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.

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.

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 Romero 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.

This page also has a version in other languages :  Эсекиэль Паласиос (russian)