Santiago Gerardo Rojas López

Nacional Asunción raised Santiago Rojas as a goalkeeper, and it remains the club that defines his career. Born in Luque, he made his debut in the Paraguayan Primera División in 2016 and went on to build a body of work there that few young keepers manage: 175 appearances for Nacional across the domestic league, the Copa Sudamericana and the Copa Libertadores.

That volume of continental football is the notable part of his story. Playing regularly in the Libertadores and Sudamericana as a home-grown goalkeeper is not a given for a club of Nacional's size, and it points to a level of trust built up over several seasons rather than a single standout match.

In 2023 Rojas left Paraguay for the first time, joining Argentina's Tigre on loan. The move gave him a taste of South American football outside his home country before he returned to a longer-term switch abroad: in 2024 he signed for Colombia's Atlético Nacional.

He has also been involved with the Paraguay national team, with reported appearances in World Cup qualifying, including a matchday squad against Chile in which he served as a substitute. Rojas has not established himself as a regular starter for the senior side, and the finer details of his international record are not settled in the public record.

At 189cm and 95kg, he fits the profile of a modern back-line stopper, and his path — years of continuity at Nacional Asunción followed by a loan and then a permanent move into Colombian football — reads as a career built on steady accumulation of games rather than a single breakthrough moment.