Percy Rojas Montero (born September 16, 1949) is a retired

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from

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. He played on Selección de fútbol de Perú at two

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s (

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and

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). He played in the 1975 Copa América Finals with the Peru national team.

Professional career

At the professional level he played for

Universitario de Deportes Club Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian sports club based in Lima, which has Association football, soccer as its main activity. It also has women's football, volleyball and basketball sections. The football team, popularly known as Universi ...

, Independiente (Argentina),

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 ...

and Sérésien (Belgium). When he was with Indepndentiente they won the 1975 Copa Libertadores Cup, the Primera División del Perú with Universitario (1967, 1969, 1971, 1974 and 1982) and two more with Sporting Cristal (1979, 1980). In 1975 he was transferred to Independiente, a club with which he finally won the

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scoring a goal in the final and with which he won the

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the following year.

International career

Rojas made 49 appearances with the Selección de fútbol de Perú from 1969 to 1979. He was part of the Peruvian soccer team that won the

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and reached the second round of the

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. He has become a television commentator.

Honours

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Weltfussball profile
1949 births Living people Footballers from Lima Men's association football midfielders Peruvian men's footballers Peru men's international footballers Club Universitario de Deportes footballers Club Atlético Independiente footballers Sporting Cristal footballers R.F.C. Seraing (1904) players Peruvian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Peruvian Primera División players Argentine Primera División players 1975 Copa América players 1978 FIFA World Cup players 1982 FIFA World Cup players Copa América–winning players Copa Libertadores–winning players Copa Libertadores top scorers 20th-century Peruvian sportsmen {{Peru-footy-midfielder-stub