Roberto Palacios

Roberto Palacios
Palacios in 2022
Personal information
Full name Roberto Carlos Palacios Mestas
Date of birth (1972-12-28) 28 December 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Surquillo, Peru
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1997 Sporting Cristal 208 (62)
1997 Puebla 13 (0)
1997–1998 Cruzeiro 6 (2)
1998–2001 Tecos UAG 104 (16)
2001–2002 Sporting Cristal 37 (7)
2002 Tecos UAG 16 (5)
2003 Morelia 22 (3)
2003 Atlas 15 (1)
2004 Morelia 17 (0)
2004 Deportivo Cali 16 (4)
2004–2007 LDU Quito 82 (22)
2007 Al-Nassr 1 (0)
2007–2012 Sporting Cristal 144 (16)
Total 680 (138)
International career
1992 Peru U-23 1 (0)
1992–2012 Peru 128 (19)
Managerial career
2017 Miguel Grau de Abancay
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roberto Carlos Palacios Mestas (born 28 December 1972) is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Palacios is Peru's record cap holder and played most of his career for Sporting Cristal, which was the team he started his career and later retired with at the end of the 2011 season.


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