José Rojas (footballer, born 1983)

José Rojas
	Rojas in 2018
Personal information
Full name	José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes
Date of birth	23 June 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Talagante, Chile
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Universidad de Chile
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2015	Universidad de Chile
2006	→ Independiente (loan)
2016	Belgrano
2017	Lorca
2017–2018	San Luis
2019	Huachipato
2020–2022	Curicó Unido
Total
International career
2007–2015	Chile
Medal record
Representing Chile
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes^[a] (born 23 June 1983), known as José Rojas, is a Chilean former footballer who played as a defender. Primarily a central defender, he could also be deployed as a left-back.

Club career

Rojas has played the whole of his career for Universidad de Chile except a brief stint with Argentine side Independiente in 2006. He has won four league championships with Universidad de Chile, in Apertura 2004, Apertura 2009 and Apertura and Clausura 2011. For the 2011 season he was selected by his teammates as captain, after Miguel Pinto left the club. In 2011, he captained Universidad de Chile to its first international title as they won the 2011 edition of the Copa Sudamericana in Santiago.

In 13 February 2023, he announced his retirement after twenty years as a professional footballer.^[2]

International career

He made his debut with Chile national team on 9 May 2007, in a friendly against Cuba scoring a goal in the game.

International goals

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	12 August 2009	Estadio Rubén Marcos Peralta, Osorno, Chile	Cuba	2-0	3-0	Friendly

Honours

Club

Universidad de Chile

Primera División de Chile (6): 2004–A, 2009–A, 2011–A, 2011–C, 2012–A, 2014–A 1
Copa Sudamericana: 2011
Copa Chile (2): 2012–13, 2015
Supercopa de Chile: 2015

(1): “A” and “C” refer the Apertura and Clausura tournaments that divide the Chilean football champions.

International

Chile

Copa América: 2015

Notes

^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Bahamondes.

References

^ José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes - Fichajes.com
^ "El histórico José "Pepe" Rojas anuncia su retiro del fútbol profesional tras 20 años de carrera: Repasa su sentido mensaje de despedida | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.

External links

José Rojas at National-Football-Teams.com
José Rojas at ESPN FC
Primera División Argentina statistics^[usurped] at Futbol XXI ^{[dead link]} (in Spanish)
Jose Manuel Rojas at BDFA (in Spanish)

[2] In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Bahamondes.

[1] José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes - Fichajes.com

[3] "El histórico José "Pepe" Rojas anuncia su retiro del fútbol profesional tras 20 años de carrera: Repasa su sentido mensaje de despedida | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 13 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.

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