Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaraz (born 29 May 1997), nicknamed El Tren ("The Train"), is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Liga MX club Juárez.
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| Full name | Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaraz[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 29 May 1997[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Durango, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Left-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Juárez | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2009 | Centauros | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Alacranes de Durango | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Pachuca | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Guadalajara | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2023 | Guadalajara | 55 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | → Necaxa (loan) | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | → UNAM (loan) | 29 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | → Cruz Azul (loan) | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Necaxa | 35 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Juárez | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Mexico U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Mexico U20 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Mexico U23 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:00, 11 July 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 8 June 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
Early life
editMayorga joined C.D. Guadalajara's youth academy in 2014.
Club career
editGuadalajara
edit2017–18: Debut season and CONCACAF Champions League title
editHe made his Liga MX debut under manager Matías Almeyda on 5 August 2017 in a 2–2 draw against Club Necaxa.[2]
Making three appearances and scoring one goal in the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League in which Guadalajara won,[3] he was included in the tournament's Best XI.[4]
2018–19: Loan to Necaxa
editIn June 2018, he joined Necaxa on loan for the 2018 Apertura.[5]
2019–20: Loan to UNAM
editIn December 2019, he joined Club Universidad Nacional on loan for 2020.[6] On 12 January 2020, he made his debut against C.F. Pachuca in a 2–1 win. On 30 August, he scored his first goal with the team against Club Tijuana in a 3–0 victory.[7] Following an impressive Guardianes 2020 performance, in which Pumas U.N.A.M. managed to reach the championship final, Mayorga returned to Guadalajara.[8]
2021–22: Loan to Cruz Azul
editReturn to Necaxa
editOn 10 January 2024, Mayorga permanently joined Necaxa.[12]
International career
editYouth
editMayorga was called up by Marco Antonio Ruiz for the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.[13] Mayorga started in all of the national team's matches in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
Mayorga participated at the 2020 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship, appearing in four matches, where Mexico won the competition.[14]
Senior
editMayorga and Edson Álvarez were given the opportunity by Juan Carlos Osorio to be supporting practice squad players with the senior national team that participated at the 2017 Confederations Cup.[15] At the conclusion of the tournament, he got his first call up to the senior national side in the preliminary list for the subsequent Gold Cup, all before his Liga MX debut.[16] He eventually made it to the official 23-man list.
Career statistics
editClub
edit- As of match played 3 April 2025[17]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Guadalajara | 2017–18 | Liga MX | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3[a] | 1 | — | 11 | 1 | |
| 2018–19 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 2019–20 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 6 | 1 | ||||
| 2020–21 | 10 | 2 | — | — | — | 10 | 2 | |||||
| 2021–22 | 14 | 2 | — | — | — | 14 | 2 | |||||
| 2022–23 | 13 | 1 | — | — | — | 13 | 1 | |||||
| 2023–24 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 55 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 68 | 7 | |||
| Necaxa (loan) | 2018–19 | Liga MX | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 0 | ||
| UNAM (loan) | 2019–20 | Liga MX | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 12 | 1 | ||
| 2020–21 | 19 | 1 | — | — | — | 19 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 29 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 31 | 2 | ||||
| Cruz Azul (loan) | 2021–22 | Liga MX | 14 | 0 | — | 3[a] | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 18 | 0 | |
| 2022–23 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 19 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||
| Necaxa | 2023–24 | Liga MX | 8 | 0 | — | — | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| 2024–25 | 27 | 0 | — | 2[c] | 0 | — | 29 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 35 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 37 | 0 | ||||
| Career total | 149 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 173 | 9 | ||
- 1 2 Appearances in CONCACAF Champions League
- ↑ Appearance in Supercopa de la Liga MX
- ↑ Appearances in Leagues Cup
Honours
editSee also
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References
edit- 1 2 3 "Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaraz". Ligabancomer.mx. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Conoce a… Alejandro Mayorga". chivasdecorazon.com.mx. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ↑ "Chivas Win CONCACAF Champions League". BeinSport.com. April 25, 2018.
- ↑ "2018 SCCL - Best XI". CONCACAF. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Alex Mayorga a préstamo con Necaxa". Nación Deportes (in Spanish). June 6, 2018.
- ↑ "Pumas acquire Alejandro Mayorga from Chivas". FMFStateOfMind.com. December 21, 2019.
- ↑ Carrara, Germán (December 21, 2020). "Alejandro Mayorga se despidió de Pumas con un sentido mensaje para la afición". DalePumas.BolaVIP.com (in Spanish).
- ↑ "Alejandro Mayorga regresa a Chivas". Goal.com (in Spanish). December 20, 2020.
- ↑ Molina, Geraldine (January 4, 2022). "Otro más: Cruz Azul oficializa el fichaje de Alejandro Mayorga para el Clausura 2022". Vamos Azul (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved April 3, 2025.
- ↑ Yu, Kevin R. (January 3, 2023). "Chivas tendrá dos bajas más para el Clausura 2023: Paolo Yrizar y Toño Rodríguez". TUDN.com (in Spanish). Retrieved April 3, 2025.
- ↑ Mayorga, Alejandro (April 12, 2023). "Muy orgulloso y agradecido con el camino que recorro junto a @chivas 🔴⚪️". www.instagram.com. Retrieved April 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Alejandro Mayorga regresa al equipo de Aguascalientes". www.clubnecaxa.mx. March 30, 2025. Retrieved April 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Convocatoria de la Selección Nacional de México Sub-20". Miseleccion.mx. FMF. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ↑ "México derrotó a Honduras en penales y se alzó como campeón de Concacaf rumbo a Tokio". Infobae. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
- ↑ "Edson Álvarez y Alejandro Mayorga, 'invitados' de Osorio a Confederaciones". mediotiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved June 19, 2017.
- ↑ "Convocatoria preliminar para Copa Oro 2017". miseleccion.mx. June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ↑ Alejandro Mayorga at Soccerway
- ↑ Martínez, Alejandro (July 15, 2018). "Necaxa campeón de la Super Copa MX 2018 ante Monterrey". AS (in Spanish).
External links
edit- Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaráz at Liga MX (archive) (in Spanish)
- M. Mayorga (Manuel Alejandro Mayorga Almaráz) at Soccerway