Alfredo Rojas

Alfredo Rojas

Hugo Alfredo Rojas Delinge ( born February 20, 1937 in Lanús ) is a former Argentine footballer. He participated in the FIFA World Cup in 1958 and 1966 with the national team of his native country.

Career

Club career

Alfredo Rojas started his footballing career at Lanus in his hometown. When he participated in the World Cup in Sweden in 1958, he fell on the Spanish side Celta Vigo. The northern Spaniards committed him then. After the descent from Celta Vigo in the Primera División in 1959, he left the club and joined Real Betis on. In the club from Andalusia it remained until 1961, before he returned to his homeland and CA River Plate from Buenos Aires joined. After only three games he left the club and went to Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. There he became a regular player and scored in his first season seventeen goals this season, while his club third behind Boca Juniors and River Plate was. Alfredo Rojas stayed two more years in La Plata, before he moved to the capital to Boca Juniors in 1964. With the club from the working-class neighborhood of La Boca Rojas won his first national championship in 1965, when they took first place in the Primera División finished with one point ahead of CA River Plate. This title was also the only one in his entire career. After four years and 102 league games (46 goals) for Boca Juniors, he moved again to the club and went to Chile for the capital club CD Universidad Católica, where he finished his career in 1969 at the age of 32 years.

National

In the Argentine national football team Alfredo Rojas was used 1958-1967 fifteen times. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile even 1930 finalists and top scorer of the first FIFA World Cup, Rojas was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden. In the tournament, he was only used in one of three games of his team, in the first group game against Germany (1:3). Argentina failed at the World Cup in the preliminary round after just 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 stood at the World Championships 1966 in England back in the squad of Argentina. However, coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo did not put it on, while Argentina reached the quarterfinals and only then was denied by the eventual champions England 0-1.