Percy Rojas

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Percy Rojas
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Percy Rojas Montero (between from left)
Personnel
Surname Percy Rojas Montero
birthday September 16, 1949
place of birth Lima ,  Peru
size 176 cm
position attack
Juniors
Years station
1965-1967 Universitario de Deportes
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1974 Universitario de Deportes
1975-1976 CA Independiente
1977-1980 Sporting Cristal
1980-1982 RFC seraing
1982-1984 Universitario de Deportes
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1982 Peru 49 (7)
1 Only league games are given.

Percy Rojas Montero (born September 16, 1949 in Lima ) is a former Peruvian football player. At club level for a long time for Universitario de Deportes , but also for the Argentine club Independiente Avellaneda and RFC Seraing in Belgium, he also took part in the football world championships in 1978 and 1982 with the national team of his home country.

Career

Club career

Percy Rojas, born on September 16, 1949 in the Peruvian capital Lima , started his football career in 1968 as a player for Universitario de Deportes . He then played for the record champions of Peru for seven seasons until 1974 and experienced the most successful phase in the club's history. In these nine years Universitario, at that time the figurehead of Peruvian football at all, was only able to win a comparatively few three championship titles, but internationally it was an extremely rare throw in Peruvian football to this day. In the 1972 Copa Libertadores , for which they qualified as the Peruvian champion in 1971, the team of Uruguayan coach Roberto Scarone managed to advance to the final, after the two representatives of Uruguay , Nacional Montevideo and CA Peñarol , behind them in the second group phase had left. In the final, the Argentine team, Independiente Avellaneda , who dominated South American football in the early 1970s and was clearly the favorite against the underdogs from Peru around players like Héctor Chumpitaz , Rubén Techera or Luis Cruzado , waited in the final . But in the first leg at the National Stadium in Lima, Universitario held up remarkably well and achieved a goalless draw. In the second leg in Avellaneda , however, the favorite prevailed 2-1 and was able to win the Copa Libertadores for the third time and start his winning streak in this competition. Percy Rojas scored the next goal to make it 1: 2 in the 79th minute, but the equalizer was no longer possible.

After nine years at Universitario de Deportes, Percy Rojas left the club after the 1974 season, which ended again with a title win. He went to Argentina and from then on played for the final opponent in the 1972 Copa Libertadores, Independiente Avellaneda. In his first year at the Estadio Libertadores de América , Rojas managed to win the Copa Libertadores 1975 with Independiente , which was the fourth win for Independiente in this competition. After ranking ahead of CA Rosario Central and Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte in the second group stage, the Chilean representative Unión Española was defeated in a play-off game in the final. In the first minute of the second leg, Percy Rojas equalized the lead that the Chileans had taken with their 1-0 first-leg win with his goal to make it 1-0 and thus enabled further success. For the time being, it would be the last time that the glorious side of Independiente Avellaneda won the Copa Libertadores in the early 1970s, and it took until 1984 for the club to win their last title in this competition.

Percy Rojas changed clubs again in 1976 and returned to Peru, where he joined Sporting Cristal , with whom he was quite successful at league level. Playing for the club from 1977 to 1980, he won two titles in the Primera División Perus in 1979 and 1980 . The 1980 season, however, Percy Rojas only played half for Sporting Cristal, as he dared the jump to Europe in the summer of 1980 and signed a contract with the Belgian second division club RFC Seraing . In Belgium Rojas acted in attack for two years and managed with his team in the 1981/82 season by a first place in the second Belgian division promotion to the first division , the first promotion for the club at all.

Then Percy Rojas returned to his Peruvian homeland and put on the jersey of his home club Universitario de Deportes, where the attacker played football for two years. After winning the Peruvian football championship for the sixth time in 1982, Percy Rojas ended his footballing career at the end of the first division season in 1984 at the age of 35. He later worked as a commentator on football matches on Peruvian television.

National team

Between 1969 and 1982, Percy Rojas made a total of 49 international matches for the Peruvian national soccer team . He got seven goals. He was appointed to the South American squad for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina by national coach Marcos Calderón . It was something like the finest hour of Peruvian football, because the team around players like Chumpitaz, Teófilo Cubillas and Guillermo La Rosa finished the group stage confidently in first place, even before the Netherlands , which were then one of the world's best national teams , against which a goalless draw was achieved. Furthermore, Scotland was defeated 3-1 and Iran 4-1. In the second round, however, Brazil (0: 3) and Poland (0: 1) were inferior and played in the final, insignificant group game for Peru, against the Argentine hosts, who could only advance into the final with a big win. The 6-0 Argentina win is still accompanied by allegations of manipulation. Percy Rojas was only a substitute at the 1978 World Cup, however, he was only substituted in for three games.

Four years later at the 1982 World Cup in Spain , Rojas was back in the Peruvian squad , but this time the aging striker was not used at all. The tournament was also disastrous for the Peruvian team and ended after the preliminary round with two draws against eventual world champions Italy and World Cup newcomers Cameroon and a 1: 5 defeat against Poland. Until today this was the last World Cup participation of a Peruvian national team.

In 1975 the Peruvian national soccer team won the Copa America for the second time and the last time to date . Percy Rojas was also part of the squad of coach Marcos Calderón's team, which defeated the Colombia national team 1-0 in the final after a draw on the two legs.

successes

1975 with the Peruvian national team
1975 with Independiente Avellaneda
1975 with Independiente Avellaneda
1969, 1971, 1974 and 1982 with Universitario de Deportes
1979 and 1980 with Sporting Cristal
  • Belgian second division championship : 1 ×
1981/82 with RFC seraing
  • Copa Libertadores top scorer : 1 ×
1972 as a player from Universitario de Deportes
  • Top scorer of the Peruvian Primera División : 1 ×
1982 as a player from Universitario de Deportes

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personal data
SURNAME Rojas, Percy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rojas Montero, Percy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima