Mauricio_Rojas_(footballer)
Mauricio Rojas (footballer)
Chilean footballer (born 1978)
Mauricio Javier Rojas Toro (born 30 March 1978) is a Chilean former football midfielder, who could also play as a defender.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mauricio Javier Rojas Toro | ||
| Date of birth | (1978-03-30) 30 March 1978 (age 46) | ||
| Place of birth | Quilpue, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Manuel Rodríguez | |||
| Santiago Wanderers | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2005 | Santiago Wanderers | 166 | (10) |
| 1998 | → San Luis (loan) | – | (–) |
| 1999–2000 | Santiago Wanderers B | – | (–) |
| 2005–2006 | Audax Italiano | 41 | (2) |
| 2007 | Cobresal | 37 | (0) |
| 2008 | Unión Española | 24 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | San Luis | 7 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Unión Temuco | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 276 | (12) | |
| International career | |||
| 2000 | Chile U23 | 1 | (0) |
| 2001 | Chile B | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014 | Provincial Marga Marga | ||
| 2018 | Santiago Wanderers U13 | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
A product of the Santiago Wanderers youth system, he played for them in the top division; the second division.[1] He also played for the B-team in the 2000 Tercera División alongside fellows such as Mauricio Neveu, Jorge Ormeño and Joel Soto.[2]
He was a member of the bronze winning Chile national football team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He started his professional career at Santiago Wanderers in Valparaíso.
Rojas made an appearance for the Chile B national team in the friendly match against Catalonia on 28 December 2001.[3][4]
Club
- Santiago Wanderers
International
- Chile
- Olympic Games Bronze Medal (1): 2000 Sydney
- "Mauricio ROJAS". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- (V y B sports) Nuestro primer programa , junto al ex Wanderers Mauricio Neveu on Facebook (in Spanish). 16 June 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- Morrison, Neil (2 February 2005). "International Matches 2001 - Other". RSSSF. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- "Carlos Verdugo, el nuevo nominado de Garcés". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 21 December 2001. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- Mauricio Rojas at BDFA (in Spanish)
- Mauricio Rojas at MemoriaWanderers (in Spanish)
- Mauricio Rojas at PlaymakerStats
- Mauricio Rojas at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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