Ruy Ramos

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Personal information
Ruy Ramos
Full name	Ruy Ramos
Date of birth	February 9, 1957 (age 50)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	181cm
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1977-1996 1996-1997 1997-1998 2002	Yomiuri FC / Verdy Kawasaki Kyoto Purple Sanga Verdy Kawasaki Okinawa Kariyushi F.C.
National team²
1989-??	Japan	32 (1)
Teams managed
2006-	Tokyo Verdy 1969
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 January 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 27 January 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Ruy Ramos (ラモス瑠偉, Ramosu Rui^?, born Ruy Gonçalves Ramos Sobrinho on February 9, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born football (soccer) player, who became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 1989. He was one of the first foreign players in Japanese professional soccer, joining Yomiuri FC (later Verdy Kawasaki, now Tokyo Verdy 1969) in 1977 at the age of 20. He was an important member of the Japanese national team during their unsuccessful 1994 World Cup qualification, eventually retiring from the game in 1998 at the age of 41.

He briefly came out of his retirement for Okinawa Kariyushi F.C. as player-cum-technical advisor in 2002. However, he left the club after a row with the management at the end of the season. Then he served as technical adviser for crosstown F.C. Ryūkyū.

In March 2005, Ramos became coach of the Japanese national beach soccer team and took them to the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, where they finished fourth.

In January 2006, he was named coach of his former squad Tokyo Verdy 1969, freshly relegated from J-League Division 1. After a disappointing 2006 season in Division 2, Coach Ramos stated that if his team did not win the first game of the 2007 season, he would step down as head coach. The first game was on March 4 against Thespa Kusatsu, one of the weakest teams in the league, and Tokyo won this match 5-0.

1 Clubs
2 Honors and awards
- 2.1 Individual Honors
- 2.2 Team Honors
3 External link

[edit] Clubs

1977 - 1996: Yomiuri Club / Verdy Kawasaki
1996 - 1997: Kyoto Purple Sanga
1997 - 1998: Verdy Kawasaki
2002: Okinawa Kariyushi F.C.

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Individual Honors

J-League Best Eleven: 1993, 1994

[edit] Team Honors

1992 Asian Cup (Champions)
J. League Champions: 1993, 1994
J. League Cup Champions: 1992, 1993, 1994
Japanese Super Cup Champions: 1994, 1995

[edit] External link

Official site (in Japanese)
Career History (in English)

Persondata
NAME	Ramos, Ruy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ramos Sobrinho, Ruy Goncalves (birth name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH