Matías Nicolás Rojas Romero (born 3 November 1995) is a Paraguayan professional
footballer
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who plays as an
attacking midfielder
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Corinthians
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and the
Paraguay national football team
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.
Club career
Rojas' first club in his career was
Cerro Porteño
Club Cerro Porteño is a professional Paraguayan football club, based in the neighbourhood of Obrero in Asunción. Founded in 1912, Cerro has won 34 Primera División titles and is one of the most popular football clubs in Paraguay. Its presi ...
. He made his debut for the
Paraguayan Primera División
The División Profesional de la Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (; "Professional Division of the Paraguayan Football Association"), also known as the Primera División (; "first division"), or due to sponsorship reasons Copa de Primera TIGO-Vi ...
club in March 2014 during a defeat to Nacional. A year later, Rojas netted his first senior goal on 13 March 2015 as Cerro Porteño beat Deportivo Capiatá 3–2 at the
Estadio Defensores del Chaco
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. One further goal, against
Sportivo Luqueño
Club Sportivo Luqueño is a Paraguayan football club, based in the city of Luque on the outskirts of the capital Asunción. The club has won two Paraguayan championships.
History
The club was founded in 1921 when three teams from the city of L ...
, followed as Rojas featured thirty-four times across 2015 and
2016
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. On 10 January 2017, Rojas was loaned to
Lanús
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of the Argentine Primera División. He remained for seventeen months, making eighteen appearances and scoring once; in the
Copa Argentina
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.
Rojas arrived back to Cerro Porteño on 30 June 2018, but returned to Argentina on loan weeks later after agreeing to join fellow Argentine Primera División side
Defensa y Justicia
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Eduardo Berizzo
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ahead of that month's friendlies with
Peru
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and
Mexico
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. He made his debut on 22 March in the game against Peru, as a 66th-minute substitute for Cecilio Domínguez. Berizzo subsequently selected Rojas in his preliminary squad for the
2019 Copa América
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on 13 May, before making the official tournament squad on 29 May.
Career statistics
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International
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International goals
Honours
;Cerro Porteño
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Paraguayan Primera División
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Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional
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The comp ...
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2022
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