Mariano Varela

Juan Mariano Varela Garza (born 14 April 1972) is a Mexican football official and former player who played primarily as midfielder

Career
During the first half of the 1990s, Varela was under contract with the Tigres UANL. He then moved to C.D. Guadalajara, but was not part of the first team squad when they won the tenth championship title in the club's history in the 1997 summer tournament. At the end of his career he played for the Lagartos de Tabasco and the Dorados de Sinaloa for half a season each, but later returned to Deportivo Guadalajara in various roles and held the office of vice president at the Costa Rican record champions Deportivo Saprissa, which at the time also belonged to the owner of Deportivo Guadalajara, Jorge Vergara.