Julián Quiñones

CTL-E-5889 · Person · other · 1997–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07137 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5889.

Julián Quiñones, born Julián Andrés Quiñones Quiñones on 24 March 1997 in Magüí Payán, Nariño, Colombia, is an Afro-Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Al-Qadsiah of the Saudi Pro League and, by naturalization, for the Mexico national team. Raised in Colombia's Pacific-coast Afro-Colombian heartland, he entered Tigres UANL's youth system in 2015 and built his name at Atlas, winning back-to-back Liga MX titles (Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022), before a permanent Atlas move, a 2023 transfer to Club América that brought two further league titles, and a June 2024 move to Al-Qadsiah reported at the time as the most expensive sale by a Mexican club. Naturalized as a Mexican citizen in October 2023, he won the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup with Mexico and scored the opening goal of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, against South Africa on 11 June 2026. He finished the 2025–26 Saudi season as the league's Golden Boot winner.

The record

• Also known as: Julián Andrés Quiñones Quiñones

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Julián Quiñones entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5889 free. Provenance: Built in Census Intake Wave 2 and held because intake order closed that window at rank 1000; staged here in ledger order; re-verified against the live graph at 3,603 entities (Gate A re-run 2026-10-16: still absent). Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1006 (Soccer Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Afro-Colombian (Magüí Payán, Nariño, a municipality of Colombia's Afro-Colombian Pacific region, per sourced heritage coverage); Black diaspora scope. Vital status: LIVING — Al-Qadsiah fixtures and results current to October 2026 (Sportradar); scored at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 33 goals in 31 league matches to win the 2025–26 Saudi Pro League Golden Boot (World Soccer Talk, June 2026); 27 Mexico caps and 6 goals as of 6 July 2026 (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16). RE-VERIFICATION (Wave 3, 2026-10-16): still an Al-Qadsiah forward and LIVING — a goal and two assists in Al-Qadsiah's 5–0 league win on 9 October 2026, with the club top of the Saudi Pro League (Soy Futbol / SportsWorldGhana match reports, October 2026); a September muscle injury that kept him out of Mexico's October friendlies is not a headline fact in the held record. No correction required. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: match and press photography of this subject is extensive; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5889-julian-quinones.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; match footage and broadcasts are third-party )

Sources

• Sportradar athlete profile, "Julian Quinones" — born 24 March 1997, Magui Payan, Colombia; forward for Al Qadsiah (Saudi Pro League) and Mexico; club fixtures and results current to October 2026 (vital-status evidence) — https://sportradar.com/?q=114615768867343055 (primary source · build store)
• World Soccer Talk, "Why does Julián Quiñones play for Mexico?" (June 2026) — born and raised in Magüí Payán, Colombia; Tigres UANL signing at 18 (2015); back-to-back Atlas championships; Club América; naturalized Mexican citizen October 2023; scored for Mexico at the 2026 World Cup; 33 goals in 31 matches to win the 2025–26 Saudi Pro League Golden Boot — https://worldsoccertalk.com/world-cup/why-does-julian-quinones-play-for-mexico-birthplace-nationality-and-eligibility-of-el-tris-forward/ (build store)
• Wikipedia, "Julián Quiñones" — full name Julián Andrés Quiñones Quiñones; Atlas titles Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022; Club América 2023–24; Al-Qadsiah from 2024; Mexico international from 2023 (27 caps, 6 goals, as of 6 July 2026); 2025 Gold Cup winner — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juli%C3%A1n_Qui%C3%B1ones (build store)

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