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 Atlético Grau, on loan from 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
Team information
Current team
 Atlético Grau
(on loan from Alianza Lima)
Number 4
Youth career
0000–2011 Cantolao
2011–2017 Alianza Lima
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019– Alianza Lima 29 (1)
2019 → UTC Cajamarca (loan) 19 (0)
2020 → Ayacucho (loan) 23 (0)
2023– → Atlético Grau (loan) 15 (0)
International career
2013 Peru U15
2017 Peru U18
2018–2019 Peru U20 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:07, 10 October 2023 (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.

After two seasons at Alianza Lima after his loan spells at UTS and Ayacucho, Rojas was once again loaned out, this time ahead of the 2023 season, to Atlético Grau for the rest of the year.[5]

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.[6]

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. Alianza Lima anunció el préstamo de 'Tato' Rojas al Atlético Grau, americatv.com.pe, 22 December 2023
  6. Renato Rojas: conoce al capitán de la Selección Peruana Sub 20, futbolperuano.com, 19 January 2019


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