Eduardo 'Edu' Ramos Gómez (; born 17 February 1992) is a Spanish

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 plays for

Alhaurín de la Torre CF Alhaurín de la Torre Club de Fútbol is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Alhaurín de la Torre, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1969, it currently plays in , holding home matches at ''Estadio ...

as a

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. He achieved

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totals of 182 games and four goals over seven seasons, in service of four clubs. In

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, he represented

Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...

and

Villarreal Villarreal (officially, in ) is a city and municipality in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain. The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital ( ...

(11 appearances).

Club career

Málaga

Born in

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, Ramos came through his hometown club

Málaga CF Málaga Club de Fútbol (, ''Málaga Football Club''), or simply Málaga, is a club based in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, who compete in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system, following the ...

's youth system. He made his first-team (and

) debut at only 17 on 4 October 2009, as a second-half substitute in the 1–1 draw away against

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. He spent his first professional season, however, almost exclusively with the reserves, only appearing two more times in the league. Ramos was deemed surplus to requirements alongside five other players in December 2010, shortly after the arrival of manager

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. On 5 January 2011, he was sent on loan to

CD Leganés Club Deportivo Leganés, S.A.D. is a professional football club based in Leganés, Community of Madrid. They currently compete in La Liga, the first tier of the Spanish league system. Leganés was officially founded 23 June 1928 and played thei ...

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until the end of the campaign.

Villarreal

On 11 July 2011, Ramos signed for

Villarreal CF Villarreal Club de Fútbol, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D., usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in Villarreal, in the Province of Castellón, Castellón province of easte ...

, with Málaga still having a buyback option on the player. Having started out with the third team, he was eventually promoted to the second in the

, making his debut – as a starter – on 3 February 2012 in a 0−0 home draw against

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. Ramos scored his first goal for Villarreal B on 3 March 2012, in a 4−3 home win over

CD Alcoyano Club Deportivo Alcoyano, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Alcoy, in the autonomous community of the Valencian Community. Founded in 1928, it plays in , holding home games in '' Estadio El Collao'', with a capacity of 4,850 seats. Hi ...

. He made his official debut for the main squad on 14 December of the following year, starting the 2−1 loss at

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Later career

On 9 July 2014, Ramos moved to

Albacete Balompié Albacete Balompié is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Albacete, in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Founded on 5 July 1939, it currently plays in Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish foo ...

, newly promoted to the second division. On 13 July 2016, after their

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, he joined

Córdoba CF Córdoba Club de Fútbol (), is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Córdoba, Andalusia, Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1954 after the dissolution of RCD Córdoba. Currently it plays ...

. On 30 August 2018, Ramos moved to fellow second tier side

Cádiz CF Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20,724. Salvadoran ...

on a one-year contract, with Córdoba holding a

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. In May 2019, he agreed to a new two-year deal at the former; he contributed 17 games in 2019–20 to help his team to return to the top flight, then left by mutual consent in October 2020.

International career

Ramos represented the Spain under-17 team in the 2009 FIFA World Cup, a third-place finish in

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. On 17 August 2010, he was selected by the under-19s for the SBS International Cup in

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.Edu Ramos, citado con España Sub-19 (Edu Ramos, summoned by Spain's Under-19)
; Málaga CF, 17 August 2010 (in Spanish)

Honours

Spain U17 *

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third place:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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