.jpg) Rojas in 2018 | |||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||
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| Full name | José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes | ||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1983-06-23)23 June 1983 (age 42) | ||||||||||
| Place of birth | Talagante, Chile | ||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||
| Universidad de Chile | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 2003–2015 | Universidad de Chile | 365 | (7) | ||||||||
| 2006 | →Independiente (loan) | 3 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2016 | Belgrano | 23 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2017 | Lorca | 17 | (1) | ||||||||
| 2017–2018 | San Luis | 34 | (0) | ||||||||
| 2019 | Huachipato | 19 | (1) | ||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Curicó Unido | 56 | (2) | ||||||||
| Total | 517 | (11) | |||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||
| 2007–2015 | Chile | 24 | (1) | ||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||
José Manuel Rojas Bahamondes (born 23 June 1983), known asJosé Rojas, is a Chilean former professionalfootballer who played as adefender. Primarily acentral defender, he could also be deployed as aleft-back.
Rojas has played the whole of his career forUniversidad de Chile except a brief stint withArgentine sideIndependiente in 2006. He has won fourleague championships with Universidad de Chile, in Apertura 2004, Apertura 2009 and Apertura and Clausura 2011. For the 2011 season he was selected by his teammates as captain, afterMiguel Pinto left the club. In 2011, he captained Universidad de Chile to its first international title as they won the 2011 edition of theCopa Sudamericana in Santiago.
In 13 February 2023, he announced his retirement after twenty years as a professional footballer.[2]
He made his debut withChile national team on 9 May 2007, in a friendly againstCuba scoring a goal in the game.
Rojas is the uncle of Alonso Rodríguez Rojas,[citation needed] a footballer from theUniversidad de Chile youth ranks.[3]
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 12 August 2009 | Estadio Rubén Marcos Peralta,Osorno, Chile |  Cuba | 2-0 | 3-0 | Friendly |
(1): “A” and “C” refer theApertura and Clausura tournaments that divide the Chilean football champions.
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