Claudio Rojas

Claudio Rojas
Personal information
Full name Claudio Ariel Rojas Martínez
Date of birth (1973-11-29) November 29, 1973
Place of birth Guatemala
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Playing position attacking midfielder
Youth career
1992–1993 River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1994 River Plate 17 (?)
1994–1995 San Lorenzo de Almagro 7 (?)
1997–1998 Instituto
1998–2004 Comunicaciones
2004–2005 Municipal
2005–2006 Jalapa
2006–2007 Deportivo Mixco
2007–2008 Petapa
National team‡
1997–2001 Guatemala 24 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 August 2010.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 August 2010
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.

Claudio Ariel Rojas Martínez (born 29 November 1973) is a retired Guatemalan football midfielder who has played for Argentinian giants River Plate.

Club career

A small midfield player, Rojas played for Argentinian clubs River Plate, San Lorenzo and Instituto in the mid-1990s before returning to Guatemalan giants Comunicaciones for 5 years and then left them for eternal rivals Municipal in 2004. He then switched clubs every year, featuring in Jalapa, Mixco and Petapa squads before retiring.

International career

He made his debut for Guatemala in a November 1997 friendly match against Chile and has earned a total of 24 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented his country in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification matches[1] and played at the 1999 and 2001 as well as at the 1998 Gold Cup.[2] In 2000, as the Guatemala national futsal team had begun its development, he was selected, along with other 11-a-side football players, as part of the squad that competed at the 2000 Futsal World Championship, hosted by Guatemala. He scored one goal in the tournament. His final international was a May 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Costa Rica.

References

  1. ↑ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
  2. ↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1998 - Full Details Archived June 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. - RSSSF

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