SOCCER PLAYER

Eladio Rojas

1934 - 1991

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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 midfielder for Everton and Colo-Colo of Chile, River Plate of Argentina, and the Chile national football team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup 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 Argentine Primera División title. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eladio Rojas has received more than 26,753 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Eladio Rojas is the 3,842nd most popular soccer player (down from 3,463rd in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Chile (up from 8,342nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular Chilean Soccer Player.

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  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Eladio Rojas ranks 3,842 out of 21,273. Before him are Arvid Thörn, Raúl Vicente Amarilla, Frank Ordenewitz, Emil Pažický, Ander Herrera, and Ricardo. After him are Marcel Aubour, Miguel Ángel Russo, Tommy Docherty, Albert Rust, Jimmy Jones, and Fritz Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Eladio Rojas ranks 421. Before him are Nobuyuki Aihara, Raymond Briggs, John Richardson, Martín Pando, Pino Caruso, and Tevfik Kış. After him are Roy Kinnear, Corey Allen, Mr. Fuji, Victor Argo, Fernando Cardenal, and James Drury. Among people deceased in 1991, Eladio Rojas ranks 212. Before him are Bruno Venturini, Adrian Quist, Giacomo Mari, Wilhelm Brinkmann, Yulia Drunina, and Meindert DeJong. After him are Robin Hill, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Lars Hall, Zośka Vieras, Stan Mortensen, and Steve Clark.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Eladio Rojas ranks 132 out of 321. Before him are Carlos Reinoso (1945), David Pizarro (1979), Remigio Morales Bermúdez (1836), Gonzalo Rojas (1917), Eduardo Vargas (1989), and Jerónimo Méndez (1887). After him are Manuel Álvarez (1928), Pablo Larraín (1976), Atilio Cremaschi (1923), Anita Lizana (1915), Carlos Campos (1937), and Alfredo Castro (1955).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Chile

Among soccer players born in Chile, Eladio Rojas ranks 34. Before him are Guillermo Saavedra (1903), Juan Rodríguez Vega (1944), Casimiro Torres (1906), Carlos Reinoso (1945), David Pizarro (1979), and Eduardo Vargas (1989). After him are Manuel Álvarez (1928), Atilio Cremaschi (1923), Carlos Campos (1937), Fernando Campos (1923), Eberardo Villalobos (1908), and Tomás Ojeda (1910).

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