Ruy Ramos

Ruy Ramos

Personal information
Full name	Ruy Ramos
Date of birth	(1957-02-09) February 9, 1957
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
2005	Kashiwa Reysol (assistant)
2006–2007	Tokyo Verdy 1969
2009–2013	Japan beach soccer
2014–	FC Gifu
* 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 (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁuj ɡõˈsawviʒ ˈʁɐ̃muʃ suˈbɾĩɲu], 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 was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup and he played 4 matches in the competition. Under national coach Hans Ooft, Japan progressed to the final qualifying stage of the AFC for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Ruy Ramos was on the pitch when Japan's hope to play in the finals was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.

He briefly came out of his retirement for Okinawa Kariyushi as player–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.

Career statistics

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Personal honors

• Japan Soccer League First Division Top Scorer - 1979, 1983
• Japanese Footballer of the Year - 1990, 1991
• J. League Best Eleven - 1993, 1994

Team honors

Club

• Asian Club Championship - 1987/88
• Japan Soccer League First Division - 1983, 1984, 1986/87, 1990/91, 1991/92
• Japan Soccer League Cup - 1979, 1985, 1991
• Konica Cup - 1990
• XEROX Champions Cup - 1992
• J. League - 1993, 1994
• Emperor's Cup - 1984, 1986, 1987
• J. League Cup - 1992, 1993, 1994
• Japanese Super Cup - 1994, 1995

National Team

• AFC Asian Cup - 1992

Managerial statistics

As of 5 November 2014.

See also

• Ramos Rui no World Wide Soccer - video game licensed/endorsed by Ruy Ramos

References

External links

• Official site (in Japanese)
• Datos y curiosidades sobre Ruy Ramos en espanol
• Ruy Ramos at National-Football-Teams.com

Japan squad – 1992 AFC Asian Cup Champions (1st Title) 1 Matsunaga 2 Otake 3 Katsuya 4 Horiike 5 Hashiratani 6 Tsunami 7 Ihara 8 Fukuda 9 Takeda 10 Ramos 11 Miura 12 Yamada 13 Sakakura 14 Kitazawa 15 Yoshida 16 Nakayama 17 Moriyasu 18 Jinno 19 Maekawa 20 Takagi Coach: Ooft

Japan squad – 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Matsunaga 2 Natsuka 3 Tsunami 4 Ihara 5 Hashiratani 6 Moriyasu 7 Horiike 8 Kitazawa 9 T. Yamaguchi 10 Ramos 11 Kazu 12 Kikuchi 13 Hasegawa 14 Isogai 15 M. Yamaguchi 16 Fukuda 17 Soma 18 Yanagimoto 19 Okano 20 Kojima Coach: Kamo