José Pereda, also known as "''El Chino''" for his Japanese origin (; born 8 September 1973 in

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

) is a retired

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Club career

Pereda played for a number of clubs in Peru, including

Universitario Club Universitario de Deportes is a Peruvian sports club based in Lima, which has soccer as its main activity. It also has women's football, volleyball and basketball sections. The football team, popularly known as Universitario, has competed in ...

and

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. He also had a spell with

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in the

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International career

Pereda made 27 appearances for the senior

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from 1996 to 2001.

Honours

Universitario *

Peruvian Primera División The Peru First Division (; known simply as ''First Division'', and Liga 1 Te Apuesto for sponsorship reasons), officially known as Liga 1, is the top flight of association football in Peru. It has been referred to as Torneo Descentralizado since ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Boca Juniors *

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: 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 2000 Apertura *

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

* Intercontinental Cup:

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* 1973 births Living people Footballers from Lima Peruvian people of Japanese descent Men's association football midfielders Peruvian men's footballers Peru men's international footballers Peruvian Primera División players Argentine Primera División players Club Universitario de Deportes footballers Cienciano footballers Boca Juniors footballers Copa Libertadores–winning players FBC Melgar footballers Coronel Bolognesi footballers Peruvian expatriate men's footballers Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina 1999 Copa América players León de Huánuco managers {{Peru-footy-midfielder-stub