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Paraguayan footballer (1982-2007)

Sixto Rojas
Personal information
Full name Sixto Javier Rojas Pérez
Date of birth (1982-06-28)June 28, 1982
Place of birth Capiatá, Paraguay
Date of death 10 January 2007(2007-01-10) (aged 24)
Place of death Asunción, Paraguay
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2005 Olimpia 12 (0)
2005 Deportes La Serena 16 (1)
2006 12 de Octubre 31 (4)
2007 Sportivo Trinidense 0 (0)
Total 59 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sixto Javier Rojas Pérez (28 June 1982, in Capiatá, Paraguay – 10 January 2007, in Asunción, Paraguay) was a Paraguayan footballer who played for clubs in Paraguay and Chile.

Career

Rojas played as an attacking midfielder for the reserve side of Club Olimpia, and made appearances for the Paraguay national under-23 football team, before joining Olimpia's first team. He made his Paraguayan Primera División debut for Olimpia against Club Sol de América on 10 April 2004. He made 26 appearances for Olimpia from April 2004 to May 2005.

Rojas left Olimpia in 2005, moving to Chile to play for Deportes La Serena. One year later he returned to Paraguay where he joined Club 12 de Octubre. He scored four goals in 31 games with 12 de Octubre during 2006.

Rojas had recently signed for newly promoted Primera División club Sportivo Trinidense when he died during preseason training in 2007.

Teams

References

  1. ^ "Muere futbolista Sixto Rojas" [Footballer Sixto Rojas dies] (in Spanish). ABC Digital. 10 January 2007.
  2. "La muerte súbita de Rojas enluta al fútbol" [Football mourns the sudden death of Rojas] (in Spanish). ABC Digital. 11 January 2007.
  3. "Paraguayo Sixto Rojas es el nuevo refuerzo de La Serena". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 28 July 2005. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  4. "La Serena 2005 - Campeonato de Clausura". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 September 2024.

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