On Saturday, July 9, 2022, Joao Joshimar Rojas came on as a 65th-minute substitute for Monterrey, the team that defeated host América 3-2 on the second day of the Apertura 2022 tournament. The goalscorer’s joy has arrived, the Ecuadorian from Emelec to football in Mexico, lasted 22 minutes. In the 87th minute, he suffered a serious injury to the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee, which is why he left the field.

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After that complicated situation, Rojas returned to the field to play an official match. The 25-year-old from Orense had to wait eight months and twenty days, after an operation and a long recovery, to continue his career in Aztec football, in a transfer that would have been agreed for three million dollars.

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Last Saturday night, Monterrey cemented itself as the leader of the Clausura 2023 tournament with a 4-0 victory over Xolos del Tijuana, in the thirteenth match played at BBVA Stadium. In the 5th minute, Uruguayan Rodrigo Aguirre (former striker of Liga de Quito) made it 1-0 with a header.

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Return of Rojas

At 22, Aguirre received the ball on the first line of the penalty area, escaped the goalkeeper and made it 2-0 with an open goal. 3:0 for Monterrey arrived in the 32nd minute when Colombian Stefan Medina sent a late cross that Argentinean Germán Berterame converted into a goal. Berterame himself made it 4-0 with a header in the 76th. With this result, Monterrey reached 34 points, and Tijuana remained at 12 points.

About the reappearance of the Rojas tricolor, after 266 days of absence, newspaper millennium this Sunday announces: “In the 65th minute, King Midas (nickname of coach Víctor Manuel Vutetich) sent Joao Rojas and Duván Vergara to the field, because the Ecuadorian ended almost a ten-month absence due to injury and is again at the disposal of the coaching staff, while the stands of Gigante de Acero reduced the applause and ovations”.

While, Futurefrom the northern city, announced: “Already in the second half, Monterrey had more goals and their strength also failed for a few moments, even at 65 minutes of action the entire Steel giant was applauded before entering the field Joao Rojas, a player who injured one knee in July last year and who returned to the game so far this April, after almost eight months of inactivity. (D)