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Club career

Ramos was one of the first

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players in Japanese professional football, joining

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club Yomiuri (later ''Verdy Kawasaki'') in 1977 at the age of 20. The club were Japan Soccer League champions five times, won the JSL Cup three times and the Emperor's Cup three times. The club also won the 1987 Asian Club Championship. In 1992, the Japan Soccer League was folded and was succeeded by the

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. The club were the league champions in 1993 and

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. The club also won the

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, 1993 and 1994 J.League Cup. In the summer of 1996, Ramos moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga. In the summer of 1997, he returned to Verdy Kawasaki and he retired at the end of the 1998 season, when he was 41 years old. Throughout his career, Ramos was selected as Japanese Footballer of the Year twice and named to the Best XI eight times. He was one of the central players in the golden era in Yomiuri/Verdy history. In 2018, Ramos was inducted into the Japan Football Hall of Fame.

International career

In September 1990, when Ramos was 33 years old, he was called up to the Japan national team for the 1990 Asian Games. On 26 September, he made his debut against

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. Afterwards, he became a regular player for Japan. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 Asian Cup and he played four matches in the competition. He was an important member of the national team during their unsuccessful 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification. Under manager Hans Ooft, Japan progressed to the final qualifying stage of the AFC for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. 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". In 1995, Ramos also played in the King Fahd Cup. From 1990 to 1995, he played 32 matches and scored one goal.Japan National Football Team Database
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Managerial career

Ramos briefly came out of his retirement for Okinawa Kariyushi FC as player–technical adviser in 2002. However, he left the club after a row with the management at the end of the season. He then served as technical adviser for crosstown FC Ryukyu. In March 2005, Ramos became coach of the Japan national beach soccer team and took them to the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, where they finished fourth. In January 2006, he was named coach of his former club Tokyo Verdy, freshly relegated from

. After a disappointing 2006 season in the

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, 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 4 March against Thespa Kusatsu, one of the weakest teams in the league, and Tokyo won this match 5–0. His team managed to finish second after all and Tokyo Verdy returned to the J1 League. Following the season, Ramos became the executive director of the club. In 2009, Ramos became the coach of the national beach soccer team again. He led the team at the

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and 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. In 2014, Ramos signed with J2 League club FC Gifu. However, the results of the club were bad every season and he was sacked in July 2016.

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Honours

Club

* Asian Club Championship:

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Division 1:

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, 1984, 1986/87, 1990/91, 1991/92 * JSL Cup:

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

, 1991 *Konica Cup: 1990 *XEROX Champions Cup: 1992 *

: 1993,

* Emperor's Cup: 1984, 1986,

* J.League Cup:

, 1993,

* Japanese Super Cup:

, 1995

International

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Individual

Division 1 top scorer:

*Japanese Footballer of the Year: 1990, 1991 * J.League Best XI: 1993,

* Japan Football Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2018

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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Japan National Football Team Database
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramos, Ruy 1957 births Living people Brazilian emigrants to Japan Naturalized citizens of Japan Japanese men's footballers Brazilian men's footballers Japan men's international footballers Japan Soccer League players J1 League players Tokyo Verdy players Kyoto Sanga FC players 1992 AFC Asian Cup players 1995 King Fahd Cup players AFC Asian Cup–winning players Japanese beach soccer players Japanese football managers J2 League managers Tokyo Verdy managers FC Gifu managers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Japan Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Japan Footballers at the 1990 Asian Games Men's association football midfielders Asian Games competitors for Japan 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen 20th-century Japanese sportsmen Naturalised association football players

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