He quickly made a good impression, being named the best midfielder in the country in 2000, and was transferred to Sporting Clube de Portugal for a fee of €7 million in January of the following year, at the same time as compatriot Mario Cáceres; at the time, it was a club record for the top division side.
Ciudad Rodrigo | Tello | Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada | Rodrigo Granda | Rodrigo de Villandrando | Rodrigo Toscano | Rodrigo Santoro | Rodrigo Pacheco | Rodrigo Moreno Machado | Rodrigo Moreno (athlete) | Rodrigo Manrique de Lara | Rodrigo Lopresti | Rodrigo Hilbert | Rodrigo Fresán | Rodrigo de Bastidas | Don Rodrigo | The cast of ''Cuando toca la campana'' (from left to right). Julio Graham as Rodrigo, Leonel Deluglio as Miguel, Diana Santos as Ana, Gerardo Velazquez | Rodrigo Muñoz | Rodrigo Hinzpeter | Rodrigo Granda affair | Rodrigo González | Rodrigo Faro | Rodrigo de Cerrato | Rodrigo de Ceballos | Rodrigo Caro | Rodrigo "Bimbo" Danao | Rodrigo Barra | Rodrigo Asturias | Julio C. Tello | David Rodrigo |