Blackburn: From Sporting Cristal to Champion with Chorrillo FC
In his brief stint with Sporting Cristal, the expectations were not met and the numbers speak for themselves: in 13 games he scored 4 goals in the first months of 2017. In August, closing the transfer window, Rolando Blackburn signed with Chorrillo in the Panama League.
There, the story was different. In the first games he started to make a difference and, this time, the numbers favored him: 11 goals in 15 games in the 2017-18 Apertura. The former Rimense forward scored in the final against Arabe Unido de Colon.
Rolando Blackburn finished as the top scorer of the team and Chorrillo FC became champion. The Blackburn's team achieved their third championship star.
The former Sporting Cristal player is looking for a place in the Panama national team that qualified for the Russia 2018 World Cup for the first time. At 27 years old, the striker has not been called up since he arrived in Peru at the beginning of the year.