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Claudio Rojas

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Claudio Rojas
Personal information
Full name Claudio Ariel Rojas Martínez
Date of birth (1973-11-29) November 29, 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Guatemala
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1992–1993 River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1994 River Plate 17 (0)
1994–1995 San Lorenzo de Almagro 7 (0)
1997–1998 Instituto
1998–2004 Comunicaciones 107 (12)
2004–2005 Municipal 15 (0)
2005–2006 Jalapa 11 (1)
2006–2007 Mixco
2007–2008 Petapa 4 (0)
International career
1997–2001 Guatemala 24 (0)
2000 Guatemala (futsal)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 August 2010
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 August 2010

Claudio Ariel Rojas Martínez (born 29 November 1973) is a retired Guatemalan football midfielder who has played for Argentinian giants River Plate.

Club career

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A small midfield player, Rojas played for Argentinian clubs River Plate, San Lorenzo and Instituto in the mid-1990s before returning to Guatemalan giants Comunicaciones for 5 years and then left them for eternal rivals Municipal in 2004. He then switched clubs every year, featuring in Jalapa, Mixco and Petapa squads before retiring.

International career

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He made his debut for Guatemala in a November 1997 friendly match against Chile and has earned a total of 24 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented his country in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification matches[1] and played at the 1999 and 2001 as well as at the 1998 Gold Cup.[2] In 2000, as the Guatemala national futsal team had begun its development, he was selected, along with other 11-a-side football players, as part of the squad that competed at the 2000 Futsal World Championship, hosted by Guatemala. His final international was a May 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Costa Rica.

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