Claudio Rojas

Claudio Rojas
Personal information
Full name	Claudio Ariel Rojas Martínez
Date of birth	November 29, 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth	Guatemala
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1992–1993	River Plate
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993–1994	River Plate
1994–1995	San Lorenzo de Almagro
1997–1998	Instituto
1998–2004	Comunicaciones
2004–2005	Municipal
2005–2006	Jalapa
2006–2007	Mixco
2007–2008	Petapa
International career‡
1997–2001	Guatemala
2000	Guatemala (futsal)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 August 2010; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 August 2010

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

Club career[edit]

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[edit]

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. His final international was a May 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Costa Rica.

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Claudio Rojas at National-Football-Teams.com
Player profile - Desde el Tablón (in Spanish)
Player profile - En una baldosa (in Spanish)
Player profile - El Grafico (in Spanish)
Claudio Ariel Rojas at BDFA (in Spanish)

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[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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