Eladio Alberto Rojas Díaz (8 November 1934, in

Tierra Amarilla, Chile Tierra Amarilla is a Chilean commune and city in Copiapó Province, Atacama Region. According to the 2012 census, the commune population was 12,898 and has an area of 11,191 km². Demographics According to the 2002 census of the Nationa ...

– 13 January 1991, in

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) was a former Chilean footballer who played as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Everton and

Colo-Colo Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo () is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. The team has pla ...

of Chile, River Plate of Argentina, and the

Chile national football team Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

in the

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place be ...

on home soil. Rojas scored the match winning goal for Chile in the 90th minute against Yugoslavia in the 1962 World Cup; his goal secured a third place finish for the World Cup hosts, which is Chile's best finish in the tournament to date. Rojas was also a starter on the River Plate teams of the 1960s that fiercely contested the Argentine Primera División title. While Rojas never won the title, River Plate did manage to place second in 1962 and 1963 as well as third in 1964.

Teams

* Everton 1954–1962 * River Plate 1962–1965 *

1965–1967 * Everton 1967–1968

Personal life

His cousin,

Leonel Herrera Rojas Leonel Anselmo Herrera Rojas (born 10 October 1948) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a centre-back for Universidad Católica, Colo Colo, Unión Española and O'Higgins and the Chile national team. Personal life Herrera was born ...

, is a historical player of

and the Chile national team and, also, the father of

Leonel Herrera Silva Leonel Marcelo Herrera Silva (born August 16, 1971 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean former professional association football, footballer who played as a defender (association football), defender for clubs in Chile, Mexico and Switzerland, and p ...

, who scored in the

1991 Copa Libertadores The 1991 Copa Libertadores was won by Colo-Colo of Chile after defeating Olimpia of Paraguay with a 3–0 aggregate score in the finals. The championship would mark a first for a Chilean club team in an international tournament. Twenty-one clubs ...

final match for the same team.

Honours

Club

;River Plate * Copa Ciudad de Bogotá (1): 1964 * Copa Confraternidad Iberoamericana (1):

International

;Chile *

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Third place (1):

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...

* Copa O'Higgins (1): 1966

References

External links

Profile at FIFA.com
Profile at 1934 births 1991 deaths People from Copiapó Province Chilean footballers Chile men's international footballers Chilean expatriate footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers Club Atlético River Plate footballers Colo-Colo footballers Chilean Primera División players Argentine Primera División players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Expatriate footballers in Argentina 1962 FIFA World Cup players Men's association football midfielders {{Chile-footy-bio-stub