Eladio Alberto Rojas Díaz (8 November 1934, in Tierra Amarilla, Chile – 13 January 1991, in Viña del Mar, Chile) was a former Chilean footballer who played as a

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for Everton and

Colo-Colo Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...

of Chile, River Plate of Argentina, and the

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in the

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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

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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, is a historical player of

and the Chile national team and, also, the father of Leonel Herrera Silva, who scored in the 1991 Copa Libertadores 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 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

* Copa O'Higgins (1):

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

References

External links

Profile at FIFA.com
Profile at 1934 births 1991 deaths People from Copiapó Province Footballers from Atacama Region Chilean men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chilean expatriate men's 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 men's footballers in Argentina 1962 FIFA World Cup players Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub