José Francisco Ramírez

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Francisco Ramírez
Personal information
Full name	José Francisco Ramírez Pineda
Date of birth	(1976-07-10) 10 July 1976
Place of birth	Amapala, Valle, Honduras
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1994–1996	El Tigre
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1997–2000	Motagua	35	(27)
2000	Dundee United	1	(0)
2001–2002	Motagua	44	(9)
2002–2005	Platense	122	(50)
2005–2006	Marathón	12	(4)
2006–2007	Platense	28	(4)
2008	Vida	12	(1)
2008	Vista Hermosa	15	(2)
2010	Walter Ferretti		(10)
National team^‡
1999–2006	Honduras	18	(10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2005. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2006

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Ramírez and the second or maternal family name is Pineda.

José Francisco Ramírez Pineda (born 10 July 1976), known as Francisco Ramirez, is a retired Honduran footballer.

He was nicknamed Pancho Ra' and was the biggest transfer in the Honduran league, at that time, when Marathón acquired him from Platense in 2006 for 1,6 million lempiras.^[1]

Club career

Ramírez started his career at Motagua for whom he started scoring goals soon and caught the eye of foreign clubs.

Dundee United

In 2000, Ramírez and two teammates from Motagua, Reynaldo Clavasquín and Gustavo Fuentes, were transferred to Scottish Premier League club Dundee United.^[2] All three had their contracts cancelled within a few weeks, in Ramírez's case after only four minutes of first team action when he came in as a sub against Celtic on 21 October 2000.^[3]

He then returned to Motagua before a prolific spell at Platense and a less successful stint at Marathón. In October 2003 he scored his 50th league goal against Vida.^[4] When at Platense, Ramírez was top goalscorer of the 2005 Apertura season with 13 goals^[5] and, by May 2009, was the Honduran league's third top goalscorer of all time with 95 goals scored for 4 different teams.^[6]

He seemed to end his career at Salvadoran side Vista Hermosa and returned to Honduras in 2009 to drive tourists around in his hometown Amapala with a motorcycle taxi.^[7]

In January 2010 he moved abroad again to play for Nicaraguan side Walter Ferretti^[8] for whom he would score 10 goals.^[9]

Team	Season	Games	Start	Sub	Goal	YC	RC
Club Deportivo Platense	2002-03 A	15	9	4	5	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2002-03 C	14	13	1	4	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2003-04 A	17	15	2	6	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2003-04 C	18	17	1	6	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2004-05 A	18	17	1	6	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2004-05 C	20	18	2	10	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2005-06 A	20	18	2	13	-	-

International career

Ramírez made his debut for Honduras in a March 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Belize and he immediately scored his first international goal when coming on as a sub for Christian Santamaría. He has earned a total of 18 caps, scoring 10 goals. He has represented his country in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches^[10] and played at the 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup,^[11] as well as at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[12]

His final international was a January friendly match against Ecuador.

International goals

N.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	19 March 1999	Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica	Belize	4–1	5–1	1999 UNCAF Nations Cup
2	24 March 1999	Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica	El Salvador	3–1	3–1	1999 UNCAF Nations Cup
3	23 July 2000	National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica	Jamaica	1–0	1–3	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	16 August 2000	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2–0	6–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
5	16 August 2000	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4–0	6–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
6	15 November 2000	Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1–0	7–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
7	15 November 2000	Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2–0	7–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
8	25 April 2003	Stade Riviére-Pilote, Fort-de-France, Martinique	Trinidad and Tobago	2–0	2–0	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
9	27 April 2003	Stade d'Honneur de Dillon, Fort-de-France, Martinique	Martinique	2–1	4–2	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
10	2 July 2005	Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, Canada	Canada	1–0	2–1	Friendly match

References

↑ Desafíe a Ismael – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ HONDURAS TRIO SIGNED – Dundee United
↑ 1st Team (Jose) Francisco Ramirez – Dundee United
↑ Roger Rojas, camino a ser el nuevo “matador” del Olimpia – Diez (Spanish)
↑ Cardozo, 7 años después iguala marca – Diez (Spanish)
↑ Desafíe a Ismael – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Francisco Ramírez: El otro año vuelvo – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ "Pancho" Ramírez fichó por el Ferreti de Nicaragua – El Heraldo (Spanish)
↑ Los grandes goleadores de Honduras – Diez (Spanish)
↑ José Francisco Ramírez – FIFA competition record
↑ UNCAF Tournament 1999 – RSSSF
↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2005 – Full Details – RSSSF

External links

José Francisco Ramírez at National-Football-Teams.com

Honduran Liga Nacional Top goalscorers

1965–66: Grey
1966–67: Caballero
1967–68: Garden
1968–69: Abrussezze
1969–70: Ortega
1970–71: Alvarado
1971–72: Alvarado
1972–73: none
1973–74: Artica / Plummer
1974–75: Peña
1975–76: López
1976–77: Hernández
1977–78: Carreño
1978–79: Bernárdez
1979–80: Norales
1980–81: Altamirano
1981–82: Altamirano
1982–83: Altamirano
1983–84: Gamboa
1984–85: Altamirano
1985–86: Flores
1986–87: Dueñas
1987–88: Machado
1988–89: Matthews / Alonso / Lobo / Gamboa
1989–90: Ávila
1990–91: Vallejo
1991–92: Bennett
1992–93: Arriola
1993–94: Chacón
1994–95: Ávila
1995–96: Castro
1996–97: Costa
1997–98 A: Velásquez
1997–98 C: Guevara / Velásquez
1998–99: de Lima
1999–00 A: Velásquez
1999–00 C: Cárcamo
2000–01 A: Verón
2000–01 C: Cacho
2001–02 A: Reneau
2001–02 C: Ferreira
2002–03 A: Ferreira
2002–03 C: Costa / Cacho / Emílio
2003–04 A: Tosello
2003–04 C: Emilio
2004–05 A: Emilio
2004–05 C: Ramírez
2005–06 A: Ramírez
2005–06 C: Emilio
2006–07 A: Costly
2006–07 C: Pavón
2007–08 A: E. Martínez
2007–08 C: Velásquez
2008–09 A: Ferreira
2008–09 C: Diduch
2009–10 A: Palacios
2009–10 C: Bengtson
2010–11 A: Bengtson
2010–11 C: Bengtson
2011–12 A: Cardozo
2011–12 C: Torlacoff / Copete
2012–13 A: Rojas
2012–13 C: R. Martínez

v t e Honduras squad – 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup

1 Coello 2 Henríquez 3 Figueroa 4 Caballero 6 Izaguirre 7 E. Núñez 8 Palacios 9 Ramírez 10 Velásquez 11 M. Núñez 13 Berríos 14 García 16 Vega 18 Morán 19 Turcios 20 Thomas 21 Vallecillo 22 Morales 23 Guerrero 24 Guifarro 25 Garden Coach: Herrera

Persondata
Name	Ramirez, Francisco
Alternative names
Short description	Honduran footballer
Date of birth	10 July 1976
Place of birth	Amapala, Valle, Honduras
Date of death
Place of death

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