Efrain Orona

Efraín Orona Zavala came through the Pachuca academy, joining it in 2012 and working his way to a first-team debut five years later. That development paid off in the 2016/17 season, when he was part of the Pachuca squad that won the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

His youth international record ran parallel to that progress. Orona was capped 13 times for Mexico's under-20 side across 2018 and 2019, scoring twice, and featured at the 2018 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, where Mexico finished as runners-up, before going to the 2019 U-20 World Cup. He also appeared once for the under-16 team and has been named in under-23 squads.

Since leaving Pachuca in 2021, the left-footed defender's career has been defined by frequent moves rather than long spells at one club. He went to Atlético de San Luis that July, then to Mazatlán FC a year later, and on to Puebla in July 2023. In late November 2025 he joined Santos Laguna as a free agent, taking the number 14 shirt.