Quinones left a major footprint in Liga MX. Across spells with Tigres, Lobos BUAP, Atlas and America, he produced 75 goals and 20 assists in 206 league appearances. If you expand the frame to all competitions with Mexican first-division clubs, the number climbs to 88 goals.
More importantly, the goals brought with them medals. He won with Tigres. He became a ‘bicampeon’ with Atlas, and again with America. By the time he left for Al-Qadsiah in the summer of 2024, Quinones was no longer just an explosive forward with streaky brilliance; he was a winner, someone who had learned how to survive the emotional weight that comes with finals.
Then came Saudi Arabia, and with it, a different kind of validation.
Quinones joined Al-Qadsiah in a deal worth a reported $16 million, making him the most expensive sale in Liga MX history, and enjoyed an excellent debut season, scoring 25 goals across all competitions. That, though, was just the start.
In 2025-26, Quinones finished as the Saudi Pro League’s top scorer, with 33 goals in 31 matches, asa hat-trick against Al-Ittihad on the final day of the campaign allowed him to finish ahead of both Ivan Toney and Cristiano Ronaldo in the top-scorer standings. He added four goals in the King’s Cup, too, for good measure.
Not since the days of Hugo Sanchez has the national team been able to point to a Mexican forward who arrived at a World Cup with in that kind of goal-scoring form. The Saudi Pro League is not La Liga, and Quinones is not Hugo, but the feeling of the ball repeatedly finding the back of the net still matters.
