Manuel Alexander Heredia Rojas (born 9 January 1986) is a

Peruvian Peruvians (''/peruanas'') are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for Carlos A. Mannucci.

Club career

Heredia came from the youth division at

Sporting Cristal Club Sporting Cristal S.A., shortened to Sporting Cristal, is a Peruvian sports club located in the city of Lima, best known for its association football, soccer team. It was founded on 13 December 1955 in the Rímac District, Rímac district by e ...

, completing in 2003. In 2006, he was transferred to Coronel Bolognesi. In 2008, he was loaned out to his former club,

for the first half of the year. After the 2008 season, he transferred to

International career

Heredia made his debut for the Peru national team in 2009.

Honours

Club

;

Coronel Bolognesi FC Club Deportivo Coronel Bolognesi is a Peruvian football (soccer), football club located in the city of Tacna. Originally founded on 18 October 1929, It was named after Francisco Bolognesi. Years later, a second branch of the club called Club Sport ...

Clausura The ' () and ' () tournaments is a split season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues. It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American football leagues in which the traditional association football season from August to May is ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

Carlos A. Mannucci *

Copa Bicentenario The Copa Bicentenario was a football competition in Peru played by the Association football, football clubs of the Peruvian Primera División, Liga 1 and Peruvian Segunda División, Liga 2. It was organized by the Peruvian Football Federation and ...

; Runner Up

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Personal life

Manuel married his wife, Lindsay Smith, in 2010.

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* * 1986 births Living people Footballers from Lima Peruvian men's footballers 21st-century Peruvian sportsmen Peruvian expatriate men's footballers Peru men's international footballers Sporting Cristal footballers Coronel Bolognesi footballers Total Chalaco footballers Cienciano footballers Club Alianza Lima footballers Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca footballers Carlos A. Mannucci players Peruvian Primera División players Peruvian Segunda División players Men's association football goalkeepers Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States {{Peru-footy-goalkeeper-stub