Rolando Azas

Rolando Aníbal Azas Velazco is a Paraguayan football manager and former footballer who played as a forward and defender.

Club career

Born in Pilar, Paraguay, Azas made his senior debut with the local club, Capitán Bado, aged 15, and later represented the Pilar city team. In 1989, he signed with Paraguayan giant Cerro Porteño. After a stint with Bolivian club Oriente Petrolero in 1992, he returned to his homeland with Libertad. He had another stint with Libertad in 1997.
Azas stood out in Chilean football, where he came in 1993 to Cobreloa. The next years, he played for Provincial Osorno, Regional Atacama, O'Higgins, Everton and Santiago Morning, mainly in the top level.
Azas also had a 7-month stint in Chinese football in 2001 and won the 2004 Ecuadorian Serie B with Deportivo Quevedo, his last club.
In 2001, Azas suffered a thrombosis in his left leg which accelerated his retirement.

Style of play

Azas developed his career as a forward since his youth career until 1998 as player of O'Higgins. That season, he replaced a fellow defender and kept that position until his retirement.

Coaching career

In 2011, Azas started a football academy for the Universidad Católica youth system in Osorno, Chile alongside the former Chilean footballer Carlos Cáceres.
Azas has mainly developed a career as an assistant coach for Ecuadorian clubs such as Delfín, Fuerza Amarilla, Barcelona, among others.
As head coach, Azas coached Manta in 2017–18, in 2022 and Naranja Mekánica in 2023–24.
In 2025, Azas served as assistant coach of Hugo Ovelar in Paraguayan club Resistencia.