Ruy Ramos

Ruy Ramos
Personal information
Full name Ruy Ramos
Date of birth February 9, 1957 (1957-02-09) (age 55)
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1977–1996 Yomiuri / Verdy Kawasaki 302 (83)
1996–1997 Kyoto Purple Sanga 20 (0)
1997–1998 Verdy Kawasaki 39 (0)
National team
1990–1995 Japan 32 (1)
Teams managed
2005 Japan beach soccer
2006–2007 Tokyo Verdy 1969
2009– Japan beach soccer
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Ruy Ramos (ラモス瑠偉 Ramosu Rui?, born February 9, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro), formerly Ruy Gonçalves Ramos Sobrinho (until he obtained Japanese citizenship), 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 (later Verdy Kawasaki, now Tokyo Verdy) 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 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 Ryūkyū.

In March 2005, Ramos became coach of Japan 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. His team managed to finish 2nd after all and Tokyo Verdy got promoted to division 1. After the season, Ramos resigned and became the executive director of the club.

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Career statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Japan League Emperor's Cup J. League Cup Total
1977 Yomiuri JSL Division 2 4 5 4 5
1978 JSL Division 1 0 0 0 0
1979 15 14 15 14
1980 15 7 15 7
1981 9 1 9 1
1982 13 1 13 1
1983 14 10 14 10
1984 16 9 16 9
1985/86 18 7 18 7
1986/87 15 4 15 4
1987/88 17 4 17 4
1988/89 17 3 17 3
1989/90 22 5 3 3 25 8
1990/91 21 2 2 0 23 2
1991/92 18 2 5 0 23 2
1992 Verdy Kawasaki J. League 1 - 8 1 8 1
1993 30 4 1 0 1 0 32 4
1994 26 3 0 0 3 0 29 3
1995 23 2 0 0 - 23 2
1996 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
1996 Kyoto Purple Sanga J. League 1 10 0 2 2 9 0 21 2
1997 10 0 0 0 2 0 12 0
1997 Verdy Kawasaki J. League 1 10 0 2 0 0 0 12 0
1998 29 0 0 0 1 0 30 0
Country Japan 361 83 5 2 34 4 400 89
Total 361 83 5 2 34 4 400 89

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Japan national team
Year Apps Goals
1990 3 0
1991 2 0
1992 10 0
1993 14 1
1994 0 0
1995 3 0
Total 32 1

Personal honors

Team honors

Club

National Team

References

  1. ^ http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=16244

See also

External links

GK: Shigetatsu Matsunaga  · DF: Shunzo Ono  · DF: Tetsuji Hashiratani  · DF: Pereira  · DF: Masami Ihara  · DF: Takumi Horiike  · MF: Santos  · MF: Yasuto Honda  · MF: Ruy Ramos  · FW: Kazuyoshi Miura  · FW: Ramón Díaz
GK: Shinkichi Kikuchi  · DF: Pereira  · DF: Masami Ihara  · DF: Yoshihiro Natsuka  · MF: Tetsuji Hashiratani  · MF: Tsuyoshi Kitazawa  · MF: Ruy Ramos  · MF: Bismarck  · MF: Betinho  · FW: Nobuhiro Takeda  · FW: Takuya Takagi
Japan squad – 1992 AFC Asian Cup Champions (1st Title)
Japan squad – 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup
Tokyo Verdy – managers