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.