Exequiel Palacios
Exequiel Alejandro Palacios (; 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 Atlético 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 Córdoba. 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. 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. All three women angrily took to social media to protest Palacios' disloyalty. Honours. River Plate Argentina