Luis Enrique Oropeza Sonoqui (born 27 October 1995) is a Mexican professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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for

Liga de Expansión MX The Liga de Expansión MX, also known as Liga de Desarrollo (Liga BBVA Expansión MX for sponsorship reasons), is a Mexican football league founded in 2020 as part of the Mexican Football Federation's "Stabilization Project", which has the prima ...

club

Pumas Tabasco Pumas Tabasco is a Mexican professional football club based in Villahermosa. Founded in 2020, Pumas Tabasco is the official reserve team of Club Universidad Nacional and is part of the Liga de Expansión MX, the second professional football div ...

for

club

, on loan from

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

Playing career

Oropeza got the attention of

Cimarrones de Sonora The Cimarrones de Sonora Fútbol Club is a Mexican football club that plays in the Liga de Expansión MX. The club is based in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. History The "Cimarrones de Sonora" were born in 2013, when the "Rays" of Poblado Miguel Al ...

while playing for the

Club América Club de Fútbol América S.A. de C.V., commonly known as Club América or simply América, is a professional football club based in Mexico City. Nicknamed ''Las Águilas'' (The Eagles), it competes in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football ...

U17 team. He started playing for their affiliate farm team in the

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

, Poblado Miguel Alemán FC. He helped them win the 2013–14 reserve championship. He scored 23 goals in 26 matches between 2013 and 2015, including 4 in one game against

Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa , mottoeng = , established = 5 May 1873 , type = Public university , rector = Juan Eulogio Guerra Liera , faculty = , staff = , students = , undergrad = , ...

. Oropeza played two matches in 2013 and one in 2014 with the first team, while they were still in the

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

, but finally made his professional debut in

Ascenso MX Ascenso MX was the second tier of professional football in Mexico of the Mexican football league system. The champion of the competition was promoted to Liga MX (top-flight tier). The bottom team was relegated to Liga Premier (the third tier). ...

on 14 August 2015, when the Cimarrones played

Coras de Tepic Coras Fútbol Club commonly known as Coras de Tepic is a football club that plays in the Mexican football league system Mexican Liga Premier (third-tier). The club was founded in the late 1950s as Deportivo Tepic and is based in Tepic, Nayarit, Me ...

to a 0–0 draw. He came in as a 62' substitution for Jorge Aparicio. He made 78 league appearances in the second tier with the club from 2015 to 2020, recording six goals. Oropeza scored his final goal for Cimarrones against

Tampico Madero Club Deportivo y Social Tampico Madero is a Mexican professional football club based in Tampico, Tamaulipas that plays in the Liga Premier de México. History CD Tampico The club was founded on July 8, 1945 soon after the club played a promot ...

on 24 January 2020, but the remainder of the Clausura 2020 season was cancelled in April due to the

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. When the team returned for pre-season in July, he was not retained due to a new rule stating that teams can only have eight players over the age of 23 on the roster, even though he still had time left on his contract. After over year out of football, he joined

in May 2021.

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at SoccerPunter * 1995 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Ascenso MX players Liga Premier de México players Tercera División de México players Cimarrones de Sonora players Footballers from Sonora Sportspeople from Hermosillo 21st-century Mexican people Mexican men's footballers {{Mexico-footy-midfielder-stub