Alfredo Rojas (Peruvian footballer)

{{Short description|Peruvian footballer (born 1991)}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Alfredo Rojas

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Alfredo Junior Rojas Pajuelo

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|5|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Callao, Peru

| height = 1.73 m

| position = Defensive midfielder

| currentclub = Sport Huancayo

| clubnumber = 6

| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Academia Cantolao

| years1 = 2011 | clubs1 = Alianza Atlético | caps1 = 11 | goals1 = 0

| years2 = 2011–2017 | clubs2 = Juan Aurich | caps2 = 178 | goals2 = 2

| years3 = 2017 | clubs3 = Real Garcilaso | caps3 = 32 | goals3 = 1

| years4 = 2018–2023 | clubs4 = Sport Huancayo | caps4 = 133 | goals4 = 5

| years5 = 2024 | clubs5 = Juan Aurich | caps5 = 0 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 2024– | clubs6 = Sport Huancayo | caps6 = 4 | goals6 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2012-2013

| nationalteam1 = Peru

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| pcupdate = 27 October 2024

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Alfredo Junior Rojas Pajuelo (born 1 May 1991) is a Peruvian footballer, who plays for Sport Huancayo in the Liga 1.{{cite web |url = http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.alfredo.rojas.132977.en.html |title = Player – Alfredo Rojas |accessdate =16 December 2011 |date = |language = |publisher = footballdatabase.eu}} He mainly plays as a defensive midfielder. Rojas is an aggressive, hard tackling player.{{cite web |url=http://www.juanaurich.net/plantilla/rojasalfredo.html |title=Plantilla – Alfredo Rojas |accessdate=2 September 2012 |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109194157/http://www.juanaurich.net/plantilla/rojasalfredo.html |archive-date=2013-11-09 |language=spanish |publisher=Juan Aurich |url-status=dead |df= }}

Club career

Alfredo Rojas developed as a youth player in the popular Peruvian academy Academia Cantolao.{{cite web |url=http://www.cantolaoperu.org/indicenoticias.html |title=Resumen de Noticias |accessdate=16 December 2011 |date=29 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721060733/http://www.cantolaoperu.org/indicenoticias.html |archive-date=21 July 2011 |language=spanish |publisher=cantolaoperu.org |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}

In January 2011 he joined Alianza Atlético, which at the time was competing the top-flight.{{cite web |url = http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.alfredo.rojas.132977.en.html |title = Player – Alfredo Rojas |accessdate =2 September 2012 |date=|language=|publisher=footballdatabase.eu}} There Rojas made his Torneo Descentralizado league debut on 13 March 2011 in Round 5 of the 2011 season away to Cienciano.{{cite web |url = http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.match.cienciano.alianza-atletico-de-sullana.670563.en.html |title =Match Data – Cienciano 4-0 Alianza Atlético de Sullana |accessdate =16 December 2011 |date = 13 March 2011 |language = |publisher = footballdatabase.eu}} With Alianza Atlético already down two goals at the famous Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Stadium, he entered the match in the 57th minute for Josimar Atoche, but the match finished in a 4–0 win for Cienciano.

Then on 4 July 2011 Rojas joined Chiclayo club Juan Aurich.{{cite web|url =http://ovacion.pe/juan-aurich/dia-volvio-cucurucho|title =...Y un día volvió 'Cucurucho'|accessdate =2 September 2012|date =|language =spanish|publisher =ovacion.pe|archive-url =https://archive.today/20120712200002/http://ovacion.pe/juan-aurich/dia-volvio-cucurucho|archive-date =2012-07-12|url-status =dead|df =}}

Honours

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