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{{short description|Peruvian footballer (born 1949)}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name= Percy Rojas 
| fullname = Percy Rojas Montero
| image = Percy Rojas.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|09|16}}
| birth_place = [[Lima]], [[Lima Province]], Peru
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| height = {{height|m=1.76}}
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]/[[Midfielder]]
| youthyears1 =   
| youthclubs1 = [[Universitario de Deportes|Universitario]]
| years1 = 1967–1974  
| years2 = 1975–1976  
| years3 = 1977–1980  
| years4 = 1981–1982  
| years5 = 1982–1984 
| clubs1 = [[Universitario de Deportes|Universitario]]  
| clubs2 = [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]]  
| clubs3 = [[Sporting Cristal]]  
| clubs4 = [[R.F.C. Seraing (1904)|Sérésien]]  
| clubs5 = [[Universitario de Deportes|Universitario]] 
| caps1 =     
| caps2 = 72   
| caps3 =  142   
| caps4 = 29    
| caps5 =     
| goals1 =   
| goals2 = 27  
| goals3 = 42
| goals4 = 11  
| goals5 =  
| totalcaps = 243
| totalgoals = 80
| nationalyears1 = 1969–1979
| nationalteam1 = [[Peru national football team|Peru]]
| nationalcaps1 = 49  
| nationalgoals1 = 7 
| manageryears1 =   
| managerclubs1 =   
}}

'''Percy Rojas Montero''' (born September 16, 1949) is a retired [[soccer|football]] [[midfielder]] from [[Peru]]. He played on [[Peru national football team|Selección de fútbol de Perú]] at two [[FIFA World Cup]]s ([[1978 FIFA World Cup|1978]] and [[1982 FIFA World Cup|1982]]). 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 Atlético Independiente|Independiente]] (Argentina), [[Sporting Cristal]] and [[R.F.C. Seraing (1904)|Sérésien]] (Belgium). When he was with Indepndentiente they won the [[1975 Copa Libertadores]] Cup, the [[Peruvian Primera División|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 [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]], a club with which he finally won the [[Copa Libertadores]] scoring a goal in the final and with which he won the [[Copa Interamericana]] the following year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Percy Rojas, el crack que ganó grandes torneos |date=21 September 2020 |url=https://once.pe/percy-rojas-el-crack-que-gano-grandes-torneos/ |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Los 65 años de Percy Rojas: Cifras nada truchas |url=https://dechalaca.com/informes/estadisticas/cifras-nada-truchas |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>

==International career==
Rojas made 49 appearances with the [[Peru national football team|Selección de fútbol de Perú]] from 1969 to 1979.<ref>{{cite web|author=Pierrend, José Luis|title=Peru - Record International Players|website=[[RSSSF]]|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/peru-recintlp.html|date=2009-05-28}}</ref>
He was part of the Peruvian soccer team that won the [[1975 Copa América]] and reached the second round of the [[1978 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Fuimos Héroes Copa América 1975 |url=https://elcomercio.pe/especiales/fuimos-heroes-copa-america-1975/ |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>

He has become a television commentator.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}

== Honours==
{| class="wikitable"
!Season
!Club
!Title
|-
|1967 || [[Universitario de Deportes]] || [[Primera Division Peruana|Peruvian League]] 
|-
|1969 || [[Universitario de Deportes]] || [[Primera Division Peruana|Peruvian League]] 
|-
|1971 || [[Universitario de Deportes]] || [[Primera Division Peruana|Peruvian League]] 
|-
|1974 || [[Universitario de Deportes]] || [[Primera Division Peruana|Peruvian League]] 
|-
|1975 || [[Peru national football team|Peru national team]] || [[Copa America]]  
|-
|1975 || [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]] || [[Copa Libertadores]] 
|-
|1975 || [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]] || [[Copa Interamericana]] 
|-
|1979 || [[Sporting Cristal]] || [[Primera Division Peruana|Peruvian League]] 
|-
|1980 || [[Sporting Cristal]] || [[Primera Division Peruana|Peruvian League]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*{{NFT player|17422}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929145813/http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil.php?id=13174 Weltfussball profile] {{in lang|de}}

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


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