Faustino Marcos Alberto Rojo (born 20 March 1990), is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 football defender

Defender (association football)

Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....

 who plays for FC Spartak Moscow

FC Spartak Moscow

FC Spartak Moscow is a Russian football club from Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet championships and 9 of 19 Russian championships they are one of the country's most successful clubs. They have also won the Soviet Cup 10 times and the Russian Cup 3 times...

 of the Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League

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.

Rojo started his career with Estudiantes de La Plata

Estudiantes de La Plata

Club Estudiantes de La Plata , simply referred to as Estudiantes, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of its history....

. He scored his first goal for Estudiantes in a 1–2 loss to LDU Quito for the 2010 Recopa Sudamericana

2010 Recopa Sudamericana

The 2010 Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes was a two-legged tie that determined the winner of the Recopa Sudamericana, an annual football match between the winners of the previous season's Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana competitions. It was contested between Argentine club Estudiantes de La...

. He scored his second goal in a 1–0 win over Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

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 for the 2010 Apertura. He scored his first goal for Spartak Moscow against FK Krasnodar during a Russian Cup game on April 20, 2011 in a 2-1 win.

Honours

Estudiantes

• Copa Libertadores (1): 2009
• Argentine Primera División (1): 2010 Apertura

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI