Fabio Rojas (footballer)

Fabio Renato Rojas Prieto (born 4 August 1999) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a centre back or right back for Peruvian Primera División side Alianza Lima.

Fabio Rojas
Personal information
Full name Fabio Renato Rojas Prieto
Date of birth (1999-08-04) 4 August 1999
Place of birth Comas, Peru[1]
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Position(s) Centre back, Right back
Club information
Current team
 Alianza Lima
Youth career
0000–2011 Cantolao
2011–2017 Alianza Lima
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019– Alianza Lima 3 (0)
2019 → UTC Cajamarca (loan) 19 (0)
2020 → Ayacucho (loan) 23 (0)
National team‡
2013 Peru U15
2017 Peru U18
2018– Peru U20 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:08, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Club career

Alianza Lima

Rojas started playing football at the age of five and later joined Alianza Lima from Academia Deportiva Cantolao in 2011.[1]

He was promoted to the first on 30 March 2017 and on 9 April 2017, 17-year old Rojas got his official debut as a starter for Alianza against Juan Aurich.[3] He played a total of three games in the 2017 season. In the following season, Rojas made no appearances for the first team but was a regular starter of the club's reserve team. To gain some experience, he was loaned out to UTC Cajamarca for the 2019 season.[4]

Despite a successful loan spell at UTC with 19 appearances in the Peruvian Primera División, he was loaned out to Ayacucho FC for the 2020 season.

International career

In 2014, Rojas was a part of the Peruvian U15 national team, who won gold in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing and in 2017, he was also a part of the U18 national team.

Rojas was called up for the Peruvian U20 national team in January 2019 who was going to play in the 2019 South American U-20 Championship. Rojas was also the captain of the U20 team.[5]

Personal life

Rojas' uncle is the former Deportivo de La Coruña forward William Huapaya.[1]

References
  1. Fabio Rojas: del oro en Nanjing 2014 a promesa en Alianza Lima, elbocon.pe, 4 October 2017
  2. Fabio Rojas at WorldFootball.net
  3. JUAN AURICH VS. ALIANZA LIMA 0 - 1, soccerway.com, 9 April 2017
  4. Alianza Lima dio a conocer el futuro de Franco Medina y Fabio Rojas, rpp.pe, 15 February 2019
  5. Renato Rojas: conoce al capitán de la Selección Peruana Sub 20, futbolperuano.com, 19 January 2019
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