Pérez playing for San Luis in 2011
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Full name | Óscar Pérez Rojas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 1 February 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mexico City, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Pachuca (on loan from Cruz Azul) |
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Number | 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||
1993– | Cruz Azul | 416 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||
2008–2009 | → UANL (loan) | 30 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | → Chiapas (loan) | 30 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | → Necaxa (loan) | 34 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | → San Luis (loan) | 62 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
2013– | → Pachuca (loan) | 145 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | Mexico U-23 | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||
1997–2010 | Mexico | 56 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:08, 12 March 2017 (UTC). |
Óscar Pérez Rojas (born 1 February 1973 in Mexico City) is a Mexican football goalkeeper who plays for Pachuca on loan from Cruz Azul. His nickname "El Conejo" is Spanish for "The Rabbit". At 44 years old, he is currently the oldest active player in Liga MX.
He has been capped 54 times for the Mexico national team since 1997. He played four games at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup, and was selected for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but did not play.
He was the starting goalkeeper for Cruz Azul since 1997 with the team winning the championship in the 1997 Winter Season. Ever since Pérez debuted with Cruz Azul he has been under the same three poles "the blue poles." Pérez debuted for the team in 1993, facing Atlas which ended in a 0–0 draw. He quickly became the starring goalkeeper for Cruz Azul and played for them in the 1997 Invierno Final, where Cruz Azul defeated León by a score of 2–1. In a league game away to Estudiantes Tecos in 2006, Pérez scored by a header in stoppage time to equalise 1–1. In 2007, he was given an award for a record-making 400 appearances at Cruz Azul.
He moved to UANL Tigres, starting 4 games in the Apertura 2008. Perez's first game with Tigres was on 13 July 2008 in a friendly against his former team, Cruz Azul which ended in a draw 1–1. He was a great addition to Tigres as he maintained the least goal approaches of the Apertura 2008 tournament.