Balón de Oro, also referred to as Mexican Golden Ball, is an annual awards ceremony held by the Mexican Federation of Association Football to recognize outstanding association football players, head coaches, and referees of the Liga MX each season. Since 1997, the ceremony has been held at the end of the football season. Since the 1996–1997 season, the league championship has been split into two single-round tournaments, giving rise to the current Apertura and Clausura arrangement, and Balón de Oro followed them. In 2001–2002, no awards were handed out as the officials forgot to organize an election. The ceremony entered a 4-year hiatus following the 2012 Clausura until the 2015–16 Liga MX season.
Dánica Nishimura Higa is a Peruvian badminton player.
Daniela Macías Brandes is a Peruvian badminton player., Tokyo 2020 Olympian...
Luz María Zornoza Roca Rey is a Peruvian badminton player. She competed at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Job Castillo Galindo is a Mexican badminton player. He won the men's doubles title at the 2022 Pan Am Championships partnering Luis Montoya. He also claimed two bronze medals at the Pan American Games, in 2015 with Lino Muñoz, and in 2023 with Montoya.
Lesvin Aníbal Marroquín Córdova is a Guatemalan badminton player. He won the gold medals in the men's doubles at the 2014 and 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games. He also part of Guatemala winning team at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. Marroquín claimed the bronze medal in the men's doubles at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Jonathan Josué Solís Rivas is a Guatemalan badminton player. He won the gold medal in the men's doubles at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games. He also part of Guatemala winning team at the 2010 and 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. Solís was the bronze medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games in the men's doubles with Aníbal Marroquín; 2013 and 2018 Pan Am Championships partnered with Rodolfo Ramírez; also in the mixed doubles event in 2018 and 2021 Pan Am Championships with Diana Corleto.
Nikté Alejandra Sotomayor Ovando is a Guatemalan badminton player. She won the bronze medals at the 2019 Pan American Games in the women's singles, and at the 2021 Pan Am Championships in the women's doubles. Sotomayor will representing her country to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as the first ever Guatemalan female badminton player to compete at the Olympic Games.
Haramara Gaitán Fausto is a Mexican badminton player. She is three-times women's singles gold medalists at the Central American and Caribbean Games, winning the title in 2014, 2018 and 2023. She also won the women's doubles title in 2014, and clinched the team title in 2010 and 2023. In the Pan Am Championships, Gaitán won the bronze medals in the women's singles in 2018 and in the women's doubles in 2023. She competed at the 2015, 2019 Pan American Games, and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Paula la Torre Regal is a Peruvian badminton player.
Diego Mini Cuadros is a Peruvian badminton player. He won the bronze at the 2016 Pan Am Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles and team event. Teamed up with Zornoza, they lost in the semi-final round to Canadian pair with the score 0-2. He also the runner-up of the Peru International Series tournament partnered with Zornoza. He was the silver medallists at the 2018 South American Games in the men's doubles and mixed team event.
Katherine Winder Cochella is a Peruvian badminton player. She educated at the Universidad del Pacífico Lima, and in 2015, Winder competed at the Pan Am Games in the women's and mixed doubles event. In the women's doubles she placed 7th, while in the mixed doubles she won the bronze medal partnered with Mario Cuba. In 2010, she won the gold medal at the South American Games in the women's doubles event teamed up with Claudia Zornoza.
Luis Ramón Garrido Esquivel is a Mexican badminton player from Monterrey, Nuevo León. He competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. Garrido won the gold medal in the men's singles at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games, and was part of the Mexican winning team at that Games. He also won the bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games.
Martín Alonso del Valle Salinas is a Peruvian badminton player. He competed at the 2011 and 2015 Pan Am Games. In 2008, he won the bronze medal at the Pan Am Badminton Championships in the men's doubles event partnered with Antonio de Vinatea, and in 2009, he and Vinatea won the silver medal. In 2013, he won the gold medal in the mixed team event and a silver medal in the men's doubles event at the Bolivarian Games.
Luís Enrique Peñalver Pereira is a Spanish badminton player. The Toledo-born, represented Spain competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. He was a part of the Spanish national junior team that won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the mixed team event. In 2017, he won his first senior title at the Romanian International tournament in the men's singles event.
Andrés López Correa is a Mexican badminton player from Mexico City. He was the bronze medalist at the 2011 Pan American Games in the men's doubles event partnered with Lino Muñoz. López also part of the national team that clinched the gold medal at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Jennie Gai is an American badminton player who competes in international level events. She was a gold medalist at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, and silver medalists in the 2023 Pan American Games.
Iker Casas García is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner. He won a bronze medal at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games and a silver at the 2021 Pan American Championships.
Adam Dong is a Chinese-born Canadian badminton player. He captured the men's doubles gold medals at the 2023 Pan American Games and at the 2023 Pan Am Championships.
Juliana Viana Vieira is a Brazilian badminton player. She made her Olympic debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics where she represented Brazil in the women's singles event.
