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Ramires
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Ramires Santos do Nascimento (; born 24 March 1987), known as Ramires, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. A midfielder, he was comfortable playing in either the centre or right midfielder position. He normally played as a box-to-box midfielder role because of his energy in supporting defensive and attacking play.
Key facts
- Football biography.caps6
- 33
- Football biography.goals6
- 1
- Football biography.name
- Ramires
- Football biography.image
- Chelsea 1 Man City 1 (16413207122).jpg
- Football biography.caption
- Ramires playing for Chelsea in 2015
- Football biography.full_name
- Ramires Santos do Nascimento
- Football biography.birth_place
- Barra do Piraí, Brazil
- Football biography.height
- 1.80 m
- Football biography.position
- Defensive Midfielder
- Football biography.youthyears1
- 2004–2005
- Football biography.youthclubs1
- Royal Sport Club
- Football biography.youthyears2
- 2005–2006
- Football biography.youthclubs2
- Joinville
- Football biography.years1
- 2006–2007
- Football biography.clubs1
- Joinville
- Football biography.caps1
- 14
- Football biography.goals1
- 3
- Football biography.years2
- 2007–2009
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Midfielder
- Nationality
- Brazil
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Barra do Piraí
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
- Position played
- midfielder
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Brazil
- Mass
- 73
- Image
- Ramires santos do nascimento.jpg
- Height
- 180
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- Commons category
- Ramires
- date of birth
- 1987-03-24
- sport number
- 18
- birth name
- Ramires Santos do Nascimento
- name in native language
- Ramires
- start of work period
- 2007-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
- social media followers
- 1879557
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Club career
- Cruzeiro
- Benfica
- Chelsea
- 2010–11 season
- 2011–12 season
- 2012–13 season
- Later career
- Jiangsu Suning
- Palmeiras
- International career
- Style of play
- Career statistics
- Club
- International
- Honours
- References
- External links
Ramires Santos do Nascimento (; born 24 March 1987), known as Ramires, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. A midfielder, he was comfortable playing in either the centre or right midfielder position. He normally played as a box-to-box midfielder role because of his energy in supporting defensive and attacking play.
Ramires began his career playing for Royal Sport Club, at Barra do Piraí, 114 km north-west of Rio de Janeiro. In 2005, he signed for Joinville, before joining Cruzeiro, with whom he spent just over two seasons, appearing in 61 league matches and scoring 10 times. In 2009, Ramires moved to Portugal and signed for Benfica. He spent one season with Benfica in which he helped them to the Primeira Liga title and Taça da Liga. He then joined English club Chelsea in the summer of 2010 and won every major domestic and European competition with them. In January 2016, Ramires signed for Jiangsu Suning for £25 million.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ramires” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.