Ramón Ros Badía (born 2 February 1981) is a Spanish retired

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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Club career

Barcelona

Born in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

, Ros reached local

FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly known as FC Barcelona and colloquially as Barça (), is a professional Football club (association football), football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of ...

's youth system in 2001. He spent two seasons with the reserves in the third division. On 2 September 2003, Ros played his first and only

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match with the ''Blaugrana'', replacing fellow youth graduate Óscar López in the dying minutes of a 1–1 home draw against

Sevilla FC Sevilla Fútbol Club () is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in Seville, Andalusia, that competes in La Liga, the Spanish football league system, top flight of Spanish football. The club was formed on 25 January ...

. He was loaned to

CD Numancia Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club in Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 April 1945, it plays in , holding home games at '' Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos''. Besides football it ...

for the following season and appeared much more (14 starts, 1,106 minutes of action), but his team was eventually relegated from the top flight.

Lleida

Ros returned to his native region in the 2005 off-season, joining

UE Lleida Unió Esportiva Lleida was a Spanish football team based in Lleida, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. It was founded as ''Lérida Balompié-AEM'' on 30 October 1939, and became ''Unión Deportiva Lérida'' in 1947, after a merger with ''C ...

of the second level. After two injury-ravaged campaigns – no league appearances in his second year, after suffering relegation in his first – he was forced to retire from football, at only 26.Rubén renueva y Ros abandona (Rubén renews and Ros quits)
Mundo Deportivo, 8 June 2007 (in Spanish)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ros, Ramon 1981 births Living people Footballers from Barcelona Spanish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players CF Damm players CF Gavà players FC Barcelona C players FC Barcelona Atlètic players FC Barcelona players CD Numancia players UE Lleida players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen