Percy Rojas
Percy Rojas Montero ( born September 16, 1949 in Lima ) is a former Peruvian football player. At club level, long time for Universitario de Deportes, but also for the Argentine club Independiente Avellaneda and RFC Seraing in Belgium, he also participated with the national team of his native country at the FIFA World Cups in 1978 and 1982.
Career
Club career
Percy Rojas, born on 16 September 1949 in the Peruvian capital of Lima, began his footballing career in 1968 as a player of Universitario de Deportes. In football 's most successful club of Peru, he played seven seasons in the long sequence to 1974 and experienced this the most successful phase in their history at all. In these nine years, Universitario could, at that time the flagship of the Peruvian football at all, although only relatively few win three championships, but internationally successful one until today extremely rare in the Peruvian football pitch. In the Copa Libertadores in 1972, for which it was qualified as Peruvian Champion of 1971, the crew of the Uruguayan coach Roberto Scarone managed the advance to the final after being in the second group stage of the two representatives of Uruguay, Nacional and Penarol, behind had left. In the final, waited with Independiente Avellaneda, the Argentine team, which dominated the early seventies in the South American football and thus clearly held the role as favorites against the underdogs from Peru to players like Héctor Chumpitaz, Rubén Techera or Luis Cruzado. But in the first leg at the National Stadium of Lima itself Universitario held remarkably well and achieved a goalless draw. In the second leg in Avellaneda become the favorite but then sat 2-1 and could win the Copa Libertadores for the third time in this competition restart his winning streak. Percy Rojas had achieved while the score back to 1:2 after 79 minutes, but the balance will no longer be managed.
After nine years at Universitario de Deportes Percy Rojas left the club after the 1974 season, which could be once again ended with a title. He went to Argentina and played from then on for the final opponent in the Copa Libertadores 1972, Independiente Avellaneda. In his first year at the Estadio Libertadores de América Independiente Rojas managed to win the Copa Libertadores in 1975, which represented now the fourth victory for Independiente in this competition series. After horizons ranked in the second group phase before CA Rosario Central and Cruzeiro Belo, the Chilean representative Unión Española was defeated by using a decision in the final game. Here, Percy Rojas equalized in the first minutes of the second leg with his goal to make it 1-0, the guide who had retracted the Chileans with a 1-0 first leg victory and allowed therefore only the more success. It should initially be the last time that the glorious team of Independiente Avellaneda could get in the early seventies, the Copa Libertadores, as a result, it took until 1984 before the club won its last title to date in this competition.
Percy Rojas joined the club again in 1976 and returned to Peru, where he joined Sporting Cristal, which he quite successfully acted on league level. From 1977 to 1980 playing for the club came in the years 1979 and 1980, the two-time title win in the Primera División in Peru. However, the 1980 season played Percy Rojas only half for Sporting Cristal, because he dared to move to Europe in the summer of 1980 and a contract signed with the Belgian second division RFC Seraing. In Belgium Rojas acted for two years in the attack and managed with his team in the season 1981/82 by a first rank in the second Belgian league promotion to the First Division, the first rise for the club at all.
Then Percy Rojas but returned back to his Peruvian homeland and stripped back the jersey his home club Universitario de Deportes about where the attacker still played football for two years. After 1982 a sixth time the Langerringen the football championship was managed by Peru, Percy Rojas finished his footballing career after the end of the Erstligasaison 1984 at the age of 35 years. Later he worked as a commentator at football matches in the Peruvian television.
National
Between 1969 and 1982 it brought Percy Rojas on a total of 49 appearances for the Peru national football team. Here he succeeded in seven Torerfolge. From coach Marcos Calderon he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1978 in Argentina. It was something like the great moment of the Peruvian football because the team around players like Chumpitaz, Teófilo Cubillas or Guillermo La Rosa finished the group stage sovereign in first place, ahead of the then counted among the world's best national teams Netherlands, against a goalless draw was reached. In addition, Scotland was defeated 3-1 and Iran 4-1. In the second round to Brazil (0:3) and Poland ( 0:1) but inferior showed up and went to the final, insignificant for Peru, group game against Argentina's host, who was able to advance to the final with a landslide victory. The 6:0 Argentina is accompanied today by manipulation allegations. However, Percy Rojas was only a substitute in the 1978 World Cup, he replaced only in three games.
Four years later at the World Cup in Spain in 1982 Rojas was back in the Peruvian squad, the striker was getting on in years but this time not used. Also for the Peruvian team was the tournament already disastrous and ended in the first round with two draws against the eventual champions Italy and World Cup rookie Cameroon and a 1:5 defeat against Poland. To date, this was the last world championship is a Peruvian national team.
In 1975, the Peruvian national football team was only the second and last time to date to win the Copa America. Percy Rojas also stood squad the team coach Marcos Calderon, who defeated in the final national team of Colombia 1-0 in the decider, after it had been tied after return game.
Achievements
- Copa América: 1x
- Copa Libertadores: 1x
- Peruvian Championship: 6x
- Belgian second division championship: 1x
- Scorer in the Copa Libertadores: 1x
- Scorer in the Peruvian Primera División: 1x