Ramón Calderón
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Ramón Calderón Ramos (born 26 May 1951 in Palencia, Spain) is a lawyer, and the current President of Spanish polideportivo Real Madrid.
He was elected President in 2 July 2006, winning the elections with 8,344 votes while Juan Palacios was second with 8,098. His football director is Predrag Mijatovic, and his basketball director is Vlade Divac. He initially wanted to hire Schuster, the now Getafe coach but Predrag Mijatovic convinced him to hire Capello. [1] He has brought in Fabio Capello as manager, as promised. He had also promised the voters that he would secure players Arjen Robben from Chelsea, Cesc Fàbregas from Arsenal and Kaká from AC Milan. Despite denials from the respective clubs, Calderón remains confident of landing them, downplaying the accusations of illegal approach from the clubs in question.
On 19 July 2006 he announced his first two signings, Fabio Cannavaro and Emerson Ferreira da Rosa; both signed from Juventus F.C. for about €20 million.
He later signed Ruud van Nistelrooy from Manchester United and Mahamadou Diarra from Olympique Lyon. He bought José Antonio Reyes from Arsenal in a swap deal involving Júlio Baptista.
He recently completed 100 days at office.
| Preceded by: Luis Gómez-Montejano |
Chairman of Real Madrid 2006–present |
Succeeded by: Incumbent |
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