A talented wide reciever with the Toledo Tortillas, Cortez took the international stage by storm after his contraversial transfer to the Tlaxcalan leagues in the summer of 1503. Head coach of the Tenochtitlan Titans - Moctezuma - is said to have been so impressed by Cortez's 40 yard sprint times that he likened him to a god.

Cortez's career in the Mexican Premiership was littered with contraversial decisions, altercations with the crowd and an increasingly venomous relationship with his former colleagues in the Spanish leagues. Cortez never played for the Spanish national side despite stacking up over 12,000 yards recieving over the course of his Mexican career.