HIJAR Sports
Mexican Talent Hub

Mexico

€22mm

Key Facts

Also known as: HIJAR – Nicolás Híjar / Jorge Berlanga, Hijar Sports
Founded: Not publicly disclosed (active in professional representation since at least early 2020s)
Headquarters: Mexico City, Mexico
Players: 75 (24) – Total market value: €22mm+
FIFA/FA registration: Multiple agents listed as “licensed” in Mexico on major football-data platforms (individual FIFA / FMF licence numbers not publicly disclosed)
Languages: Spanish, English
Regions covered: Mexico and Latin America, North America (MLS / CPL & lower tiers), selected European leagues (Scotland, Cyprus) and Central America
Email: contact@hijar.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hijar.sports

About

HIJAR Sports is a Mexico-based football agency focused on managing and developing professional players from Mexico and wider Latin America, with a strong footprint in Liga MX and growing placement in Europe and North America.
Operating under the legal name HIJAR – Nicolás Híjar / Jorge Berlanga, the agency positions itself as a career-management firm that “builds paths of transcendence” for its clients, highlighting long-term planning, innovation and global opportunities.
The roster mixes established internationals such as Guillermo Ochoa with high-potential U20 and U23 talents across Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Canada.

Key People

• CEO / Founder: Nicolás Híjar – Owner of HIJAR Sports and public face of the agency, registered as a licensed agent and presenting himself as a FIFA agent on social media.
  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolashijar/

• Partner: Jorge Berlanga – Partner of HIJAR – Nicolás Híjar / Jorge Berlanga and involved in player-representation operations in Liga MX.

• Licensed agents (selection):

  • Nicolás Híjar – Licensed (Owner)

  • Daniela Méndez Vasconcelos – Licensed agent; also co-founder of Femium Sports Agency, collaborating with HIJAR

  • Luis Fernández Ayala – Licensed agent at HIJAR

  • Roberta Jiménez Zambrano – FIFA-licensed agent, co-founder & CEO at Femium Sports, associated with Hijar Sports projects

  • Martin Méndez Vasconcelos – Licensed agent supporting Latin-American scouting and representation

  • Heberto Guillermo Schutsch Cámara – Agent linked to HIJAR in international agent directories

Client Roster

Top players and talents (current)

• Carlos Rodríguez (Cruz Azul) – Date of birth: 03 January 1997

• Andrés Sánchez (Atlético San Luis) – Date of birth: 04 September 1997

• Unai Bilbao (Club Tijuana) – Date of birth: 04 February 1994

• Diego Gómez (Necaxa) – Date of birth: 10 September 2003

• Bernardo Parra (Tigres UANL) – Date of birth: 11 January 2005

• Kevin Escamilla (Club Tijuana) – Date of birth: 10 May 1994

• Javier Güemez (Santos Laguna) – Date of birth: 17 October 1991

• José Juan Manríquez (FC Juárez) – Date of birth: 26 February 1996

• Brian Rubio (CS Herediano) – Date of birth: 09 November 1995

• José Rodríguez (Necaxa) – Date of birth: 17 June 1996

• Julio González (Puebla FC) – Date of birth: 23 April 1991

• Ángel Rico (UNAM Pumas) – Date of birth: 12 January 2005

• Fernando Monárrez (Puebla FC) – Date of birth: 22 July 1999

• Javier Suárez (Atlético San Luis) – Date of birth: 04 May 2006

• Jesús Hernández (Querétaro FC) – Date of birth: 09 January 2004

• Jesús Rodríguez (Puebla FC) – Date of birth: 21 May 1993

• César Garza (Dundee FC) – Date of birth: 01 July 2005

• Guillermo Ochoa (AEL Limassol) – Date of birth: 13 July 1985

• Luis García (Dorados Sinaloa) – Date of birth: 25 March 1993

• Uziel García (Morelia) – Date of birth: 09 April 2001

• Isaác Brizuela (Chivas Guadalajara) – Date of birth: 28 August 1990

• Josué Vergara (Tauro FC) – Date of birth: 25 July 2007

• Andrés Mosquera (América de Cali) – Date of birth: 20 February 1990

• Diego Urtiaga (Inter Toronto FC) – Date of birth: 09 October 1998

• Leonel López (Inter Toronto FC) – Date of birth: 24 May 1994

• José Juan Vázquez (Free agent) – Date of birth: 14 March 1988

• Francisco Méndez (Tapatío) – Date of birth: 04 May 2005

• Sebastián Aceves (Deportivo Toluca U-21) – Date of birth: 20 December 2005

• Leonardo Vargas (Dorados Sinaloa) – Date of birth: 16 March 2001

• Víctor Arboleda (Free agent) – Date of birth: 01 January 1997

Notable former clients

• No major high-profile former clients are clearly and consistently documented in open sources; publicly available listings focus on active clients and do not provide a transparent archive of players who have left the agency.

Coaches/Staff represented (if any)

• No coaches or non-playing staff are explicitly listed as clients; the visible focus is almost exclusively on players.

Notable Deals

• 2022 – Carlos Rodríguez from Monterrey to Cruz Azul (Liga MX) – Permanent transfer with reported fee of around €2.2m and four-year contract, later extended to 2029.

• 2022 – Swap structure involving Carlos Rodríguez to Cruz Azul and Luis Romo to Monterrey, widely highlighted as one of the key moves of that winter window.

• 2024–2025 – César Garza loan from Monterrey to Dundee FC – Cross-border move from Liga MX to Scottish Premiership, framed as part of a strategic partnership between Monterrey and Dundee.

• 2025 – Guillermo Ochoa signing with AEL Limassol (Cyprus) after spells in Italy and Portugal – a high-profile free transfer enabling the Mexico legend to pursue a sixth World Cup.

• 2025 – Leonel López move to Inter Toronto FC – Free transfer from Mexico to the Canadian system, giving HIJAR a visible presence in Canadian professional football.

• 2025 – Contract extension for Carlos Rodríguez with Cruz Azul until 2029, consolidating him as one of Liga MX’s most important Mexican midfielders.

Services

• Career strategy and long-term planning for professional players (senior and youth)

• Domestic and international transfers and loans, including cross-border moves to Europe, Central America and North America

• Contract negotiation and renewals (salaries, bonuses, step-up clauses)

• Support for youth players and families: pathway planning, academy guidance and national-team exposure

• Commercial work around image rights, sponsorship activation and media positioning for selected senior players

Partner Network

• Liga MX and Liga de Expansión: working relationships via transfers and loans with Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Tigres UANL, Necaxa, Santos Laguna, Pumas, Puebla, Querétaro and Atlético San Luis

• Central and South America: ties through players at Herediano (Costa Rica), Tauro FC (Panama) and América de Cali (Colombia)

• Europe: links with Dundee FC (Scotland) and AEL Limassol (Cyprus)

• North America: presence in the Canadian system via Inter Toronto FC

• Collaborative network of licensed agents (for example Femium Sports) used for co-representation and women’s-football projects

Track Record (last 3 seasons)

• Total transfers completed: Approx. 20–30 domestic and international moves (including loans and free transfers) across Liga MX, lower Mexican tiers, Central America, Scotland, Cyprus and Canada, based on publicly traceable transactions

• Deals ≥ €10m: No single transfer fee above €10m is clearly and publicly attributed to HIJAR clients; key players such as Carlos Rodríguez and Guillermo Ochoa have high market values, but recent fees are either undisclosed or below that threshold

• Clients in top-5 leagues: At least one in the last three seasons – Guillermo Ochoa at Salernitana in Serie A before moving to AEL Limassol

• National team clients:

  • 1 senior Mexico national-team regular (Guillermo Ochoa) plus other senior internationals over time

  • A double-digit number of Mexico youth internationals, with local media citing around 17–20 players called to U18 and U20 selections at various points

• Renewal/extension deals:

  • Carlos Rodríguez multi-year extension with Cruz Azul (now running to 2029)

  • Various local contract renewals at Mexican clubs (terms typically undisclosed)

Approach & Philosophy

HIJAR presents itself as a career-architecture agency, talking about managing sports careers around the world and building “paths of transcendence” through innovation, high performance standards and close support to players and families.
Its portfolio strategy mixes a few headline seniors per position with a large pool of Liga MX and youth prospects, often seeking early involvement in academy and youth-national-team stages to manage a player’s pathway from adolescence into the professional ranks.

On the negotiation side, the agency is comfortable with swap deals, structured transfers and cross-border loans, while prioritising stable long contracts for its key assets, such as Rodríguez’s long-term deal at Cruz Azul.

Fees & Transparency

Public sources do not show an official fee table or commission policy for HIJAR. In practice, commissions appear to follow typical market ranges for intermediaries in line with FIFA and domestic-FA recommendations, rather than a radically different model.

Compliance & Reputation

• Disciplinary actions / sanctions:

  • No official FIFA or FMF disciplinary decisions are publicly recorded specifically against HIJAR Sports or its key agents as of December 2025.

• Litigation / disputes:

  • No major court cases are widely documented; however, a notable Mexican opinion piece questioned the scale of HIJAR’s influence on youth national-team call-ups and, at the time of publication in 2024, claimed the company itself was not yet FIFA-authorised.

• Media sentiment:

  • Mixed. The agency is recognised in analytical pieces about the Mexican agency landscape as one of the more influential groups in Liga MX in terms of combined squad market value.

  • At the same time, investigative and opinion articles have raised concerns about concentration of youth-national-team representation and potential conflicts of interest, creating a degree of controversy around the brand.

Awards/recognition

• Included among the better-represented agencies in Liga MX in at least one 2025 analysis of agencies managing significant combined market values within the league

• Regular visibility for clients in national-team tournaments and continental competitions, including Cruz Azul’s CONCACAF Champions Cup campaigns and Mexico’s Gold Cup and Nations League squads, indirectly raising the agency’s profile