César Montes

Defence, Mexico

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
28
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Mexico
our board
#1067
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1965′
23 appearances

Sourced

squad: Mexico · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1605 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1631 full roster Elo (+26 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

at or near his peak, no projected upside from age

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Mexico's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1605
age curve at 28 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way: +0
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1605
form: national-team results, 23 appearances1965 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +26
full roster Elo · with results: 1631

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-11. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#1067 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +26 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
workload
He barely leaves the pitch: 85′ a night across 23 folded appearances.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €6m (2024-09). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2024-09-12Almeria → Lokomotiv€6m
2023-09-01Espanyol → Almeria€14m
2023-01-02Monterrey → Espanyol€8m

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Mexico’s record

v EcuadorSealed
at Czech Republic0–3Called it
v South Korea1–0Called it
v South Africa2–0Called it

The newsroom’s calls on Mexico. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.