Alfredo Rojas
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Alfredo Hugo Rojas Delinge | |
| birthday | February 20, 1937 | |
| place of birth | Lanús , Argentina | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1956-1958 | CA Lanus | 56 (40) |
| 1958-1959 | Celta Vigo | 7 (1) |
| 1959-1961 | Betis Seville | 47 (18) |
| 1961 | River Plate | 3 (2) |
| 1962-1964 | Gimnasia La Plata | 81 (35) |
| 1964-1968 | Boca Juniors | 113 (47) |
| 1969 | Universidad Católica | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1958-1967 | Argentina | 15 (1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| Portuguesa FC | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Alfredo Hugo Rojas Delinge (born February 20, 1937 in Lanús ) is a former Argentine football player and coach. He took part in the football world championships in 1958 and 1966 with the national team of his home country .
Player career
Club career
Alfredo Rojas began his football career with CA Lanús in his hometown. When he took part in the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 , the Spanish first division club Celta Vigo noticed him . The northern Spaniards then signed him. After the relegation of Celta Vigo from the Primera División in 1959 , he left the club and joined Betis Sevilla . He stayed with the Andalusian club until 1961 before returning to his home country and joining CA River Plate from Buenos Aires . After only three games he left the club again and went to Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata . There he became a regular player and scored seventeen goals of the season in his first season, while his club was third behind Boca Juniors and River Plate. Alfredo Rojas stayed in La Plata for two more years before moving to the capital in 1964 to join the Boca Juniors. With the club from the working-class La Boca district , Rojas won its first national championship in 1965 when they took first place in the Primera División with a point ahead of CA River Plate . This title win was also the only one in his entire career. After four years and 102 league games (46 goals) for Boca Juniors, he changed club again and went to Chile to the capital club CD Universidad Católica , where he ended his career in 1969 at the age of 32.
National team
In the Argentine national soccer team Alfredo Rojas was used fifteen times between 1958 and 1967. Argentina's national coach Guillermo Stábile , himself a 1930 finalist and top scorer of the first soccer world championship , called Rojas into the South American squad for the 1958 soccer world championship in Sweden. At the tournament he was used in only one of three games of his team, namely in the first group game against Germany (1: 3). Argentina failed at the World Cup in the preliminary round after only one win against Northern Ireland and two defeats against Germany and Czechoslovakia (1: 6). After Alfredo Rojas had not been nominated for the 1962 World Cup in Chile, he was back in the Argentine squad at the 1966 World Cup in England . National coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo did not use him, however, while Argentina reached the quarter-finals and only there failed 1-0 at eventual world champions England .
Coaching career
Near his active career, Rojas worked as a coach. In Venezuela he was in charge of Portuguesa FC .
Web links
- Alfredo Rojas in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Alfredo Rojas in the database of fussballdaten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Técnicos y Jugadores Mundialistas que pasaron por el fútbol nacional ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on balonazos.com from June 17, 2014, accessed on February 28, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rojas, Alfredo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rojas Delinge, Alfredo Hugo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lanús , Argentina |