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Ramires
Personal information
Full name Ramires Santos do Nascimento
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 7
Youth career
2005–2006 Joinville
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Joinville 14 (3)
2007–2008 → Cruzeiro (loan) 32 (3)
2008–2009 Cruzeiro 29 (7)
2009–2010 Benfica 26 (4)
2010– Chelsea 23 (1)
International career‡
2008 Brazil U23 8 (0)
2009– Brazil 20 (2)
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:20, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:58, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Ramires Santos do Nascimento (born 24 March 1987 in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro), commonly Ramires, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chelsea in the English Premier League. In 2008, he won a Bronze medal in the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Club career

Cruzeiro

In January 2008, Ramires agreed to a five-year deal with Cruzeiro in a permanent move from Joinville for a fee of $300,000, giving Cruzeiro 70% of the players' economic rights. Joinville kept 30% in the event of any transfers in the future.[2] He was referred to by the fans and media during his time there as the "Queniano Azul", or "Blue Kenyan", due to Cruzeiro's blue kit and his endurance, which was considered reminiscent of Kenyan runners, who are famous for winning many Brazilian running marathons.[3]

Benfica

On 21 May 2009, Ramires joined Portuguese club Sport Lisboa e Benfica for €7.5 million on a five-year contract with a minimum fee release of €30 million.[4][5] Ramires was everpresent staring as a important player for Benfica through out the season. As the Portuguese giants won the league title after a five-year wait. Ramires in his first and only season with Benfica also won the Taça da Liga beating FC Porto 3-0. In June 2010, Benfica sold 50% of the economic rights to Ramires to Jazzy Limited for €6 million.[6]

Chelsea

On 4 August 2010, Benfica announced they had agreed a deal with English Premier League champions Chelsea and his third-party owner for €22 million.[7][8][9] Ramires completed his move to Chelsea on 13 August 2010, on a four-year contract. He was handed the number 7 shirt, previously worn by Andriy Shevchenko.[10] He made his debut on 28 August 2010 against Stoke City, coming on as a substitute in the 84th minute, replacing Michael Essien.[11] On 11 September 2010, he made his full Premier League debut, starting against West Ham United.[12] He started in Chelsea's 2-0 win over Arsenal on 3 October 2010, winning possession and then putting Ashley Cole through to cross to Didier Drogba for Chelsea's first goal.[13] He recently started in Chelsea's 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers on 29 December 2010, where his performance was praised and was known to have his best game with Chelsea to date where he made several runs forward and strong tackles winning the balls several times in the midfield. On Chelsea's return fixture at Bolton Wanderers, Ramires scored his first goal as a Chelsea player in a 4–0 win.

International career

On 21 July 2008, Ramires was named the replacement for Robinho on the Brazil U-23 team for the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. He appeared four times at the Olympics, as Brazil went on to achieve bronze medal.

On 21 May 2009, he was called up for the first time to the Brazilian national team for 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification and the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.[14]

He played his first game for the national team on 6 June 2009, a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification game against Uruguay, in which he came as a substitute for Elano.[15]

Ramires scored his first International goal on 7 June 2010, against Tanzania leading up to the World Cup finals. He scored again later on in the game setting the score to 5–1. In the round of 16 at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finals he made a run past three Chilean defenders to set up Robinho for the third goal in the 3-0 victory.

Honours

Club

Cruzeiro

Joinville

Benfica

International

Brazil

Career statistics

Club Season League Cup League Cup South America Total
Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Joinville 2006 14 3 * * * * * * * 14 3
Cruzeiro
2007 32 3 * * * * * 2 0 34 3
2008 25 6 * * * * * 10 5 35 11
2009 4 1 * * * * * 8 1 12 2
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Benfica 2009-10 26 4 1 1 0 4 1 12 0 43 5
Chelsea 2010-11 22 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 26 1
Career Total 120 17 1 0 0 5 1 35 6 154 25

Last appearances update - 4 December 2010

Last goals update - 24 January 2011

International statistics

As of 3/11/2010[16]

References

  1. ^ www.slbenfica.pt – Ficha de jogador Template:Pt icon
  2. ^ "Ramires fica em definitivo no Cruzeiro". Mercadofutebol.com. 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2008-04-15. Template:Pt icon
  3. ^ Jones, Simon (22 July 2010). "Chelsea in £20m Ramires raid! Champions bid for Brazilian World Cup midfielder". Daily Mail. London.
  4. ^ "Cruzeiro confirma venda de Ramires para o Benfica". Estadão. 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2009-05-22. Template:Pt icon
  5. ^ "Ramires Agrees Benfica Move". ESPNSTAR.com. 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
  6. ^ "Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Futebol SAD announces disposal of a percentage of athlete Ramires' financial rights" (PDF). SL Benfica (in Portuguese). Published by CMVM. 20 June 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  7. ^ "Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Futebol SAD announces agreement in principle with Chelsea FC for transfer of the athlete Ramires" (PDF). SL Benfica (in Portuguese). Published by CMVM. 4 August 2010.
  8. ^ "Chelsea complete signing of Brazil midfielder Ramires". BBCSport. 2010-08-04. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  9. ^ "Ramires transfer confirmed". Planet Benfica. 2010-08-04. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  10. ^ "RAMIRES SIGNS FOR CHELSEA". Chelsea FC. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
  11. ^ "Chelsea 2 - 0 Stoke City". ESPN Soccernet. 2010-08-28. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
  12. ^ "West Ham 1-3 Chelsea". BBC News. 11 September 2010.
  13. ^ "Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal". BBC News. 3 October 2010.
  14. ^ "Dunga convoca Seleção Brasileira para jogos das Eliminatórias e Copa das Confederações". Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF). 2009-04-21. Retrieved 2009-04-22. [dead link] Template:Pt icon
  15. ^ "Brasil atropela o Uruguai, quebra tabu e fica muito perto da vaga para 2010". O Globo. 2009-00-06. Retrieved 2009-06-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) Template:Pt icon
  16. ^ "Seleção Brasileira (Bulgarian National Team) 2008–2009". RSSSFbrasil.com. Retrieved 2009-07-02.

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