Sergio Ramos commits to Madrid: how shining is he?
A leader of 4 UEFA Champions League titles, 4 Ligas, UEFA EURO 2008 and 2012, and a 2010 FIFA World Cup among a phalanx of trophies, Sergio Ramos was UEFA Champions League Defender of a Season for 2017 and 2018 and an eight-time UEFA.com fans’ Team of a Year pick – and could supplement some-more after emphasising his wish to stay during Real Madrid.
What they say
“Ramos doesn’t warn me. It’s what he has – a large celebrity … he’s always there, always enlivening players and he never drops his guard. He never gives up.”
Zinédine Zidane, Real Madrid coach
“There are defenders with unusual technical ability, others have singular defensive qualities – like Cannavaro, shining during marking. Others, like Baresi, can authority a behind line while others change with clever personalities. But factoring all together to weigh a defender afterwards Sergio Ramos is a many complete. He’s got a bit of everything: technical ability, strength, celebrity and leadership.”
Carlo Ancelotti, former Madrid coach
“He defends well, can play and manages all facets of a game. He’s a really finish footballer.”
Thiago Silva, Paris Saint-Germain captain
“Sergio Ramos is a toughest competition I’ve come adult against. He is really strong, has a lot of experience, and is a really rival player.”
Luis Suárez, Barcelona forward
Career tally*
International: 163 appearances, 18 goals
UEFA bar competition: 129 appearances, 14 goals
Domestic competition: 531 appearances, 75 goals
*Has also finished 6 appearances for Madrid in a FIFA Club World Cup
Claims to fame
Sevilla Real Madrid
• His send from Sevilla to Madrid for €27m in 2005, when aged 19, is still a record for a Spanish teenager.
• Ramos has scored in 15 uninterrupted Liga campaigns – a record for a defender. He scored 11 goals in all competitions for Real Madrid in 2018/19 (eight of them penalties), a personal best for a singular season.
• Part of an chosen organisation of defenders to have scored in dual opposite European Cup finals, Ramos is a usually one to have finished so in a UEFA Champions League era. His strikes in a 2014 and 2016 finals, opposite Atlético, put him alongside Tommy Gemmell (1967, 1970) and Phil Neal (1977, 1984).
• His added-time equaliser in a 2016 UEFA Super Cup opposite boyhood group Sevilla means he has scored in a final of a UEFA Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup. Not bad for a centre-back.
Spain
• Became Spain’s youngest full general for 55 years when creation his entrance 4 days before his 19th birthday, that he distinguished with a initial rival start – in a 2006 World Cup qualifier opposite Serbia and Montenegro.
• Was a unchanging as Spain won UEFA EURO 2008, a 2010 World Cup and UEFA EURO 2012; suggested a t-shirt in honour of his ex-Sevilla team-mate Antonio Puerta, who died unexpected in 2007, as he distinguished both his EURO wins. He wears Puerta’s No15 shirt for Spain (as opposite to his common No4 for Real Madrid).
• With David de Gea comparison forward of Iker Casillas, Ramos captained Spain during UEFA EURO 2016 and has remained skipper since.
What we competence not know
• Holds a outrageous pretension of Madrid’s many inclusive gourmet of red cards, carrying been discharged a club-record 25 times in all competitions. He has been sent off in a record 5 Clásico fixtures, many recently when Barcelona won 3-2 in Madrid in Apr 2017.
• Earned a record 19th Liga red label in a 0-0 pull with Athletic in Dec 2017, violation a record of 18 formerly common by Xavier Aguado and Pablo Alfaro.
• Ramos is not unknown with gift work and in 2014 was allocated one of Spain’s inhabitant ambassadors to UNICEF.
• An backer of physique art, he has 4 tattoos on his fingers – a numbers 35, 32, 19 and 90+. The initial dual imply his initial dual patrol numbers with Sevilla; 19 is a series he wore when initial capped by Spain; and 90+ represents his stoppage-time equaliser opposite Atlético, when Madrid went on to lift their 10th European Cup in 2014.
• Also loves horses and owns a timber plantation in his local Andalusia, where he likes to “switch off and enjoy” himself. One of his animals, Silencio de Ramos, was admitted Andalusian Champion 2016; another, Yecutan SR4, was a universe champion in 2018.
• Has 3 sons: Sergio, Marco and Alejandro; he got intent to their mother, radio presenter Pilar Rubio, in 2018, and is due to get married on 15 Jun this year.
What he says
“I get adult each day with a same enterprise to keep improving, that I’ve been doing given we was a kid. I’m not looking for recognition. All we wish to do each year is do even better, forget what we’ve won and set new challenges. I’ll keep going as prolonged as a physique allows it.”
“My grandfather and father always told me that even if there’s usually one second left, there’s still hope. You’ve got to have that attitude, and that’s always been a opinion of a club.”
“In sequence to set an instance we have to perform well, work tough and give your all; uncover a younger lads so we can ask a same of them. I’m really happy to have a possibility to lead this team.”
“I’m happy if I’m a purpose model. we consider I’ve fought and sacrificed a lot, so that when we retire we can do so with my demur clear, after carrying won all there is to win.”
“I would like to lift on personification [for Spain] for many some-more years. I’m going to have to go to Qatar [for a 2022 World Cup] with a grey brave if necessary.”
What he competence grasp yet
• Spain’s second-highest top holder, he is usually 4 bashful of Casillas’s record of 167. At 33, he could nonetheless adopt his aged team-mate.
• Become a initial actor to win 3 EUROs; he is a usually member of a UEFA EURO 2008-winning group still in a Roja ranks.
• His eye for idea and Madrid’s adore event with a UEFA Champions League means he could turn a initial defender to measure in 3 finals.
• Reach 150 UEFA Champions League outings? He is on 119 during a moment. He also needs usually dual some-more UEFA Champions League winners medals to compare Francisco Gento’s record of six: if he plays on until he is 36 he has a chance.
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