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.

[1] Rojas was also a starter on the River Plate teams of the 1960s that fiercely contested the Argentine Primera División title.

While Rojas never won the title, River Plate did manage to place second in 1962 and 1963 as well as third in 1964.

His cousin, Leonel Herrera Rojas, is a historical player of Colo-Colo and the Chile national team and, also, the father of Leonel Herrera Silva, who scored in the 1991 Copa Libertadores final match for the same team.

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