Oswaldo Ramírez

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Oswaldo Ramírez
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Oswaldo Ramirez (1970)
Personnel
Surname Oswaldo Felipe Ramírez Salcedo
birthday March 28, 1947
place of birth Lima ,  Peru
size 178 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1969 Sport boys 92 (50)
1970-1975 Universitario de Deportes 131 (80)
1975-1977 Atlético Español 47 (12)
1977-1980 Sporting Cristal 72 (37)
1981 Deportivo Galicia
1981-1982 Sporting Cristal 57 (27)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1982 Peru 57 (17)
1 Only league games are given.

Oswaldo Felipe Ramírez Salcedo (born March 28, 1947 in Lima ) is a former Peruvian football player. At club level, he was mainly active at Universitario de Deportes and Sporting Cristal , played 57 games for the Peruvian national soccer team and took part in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico .

Career

Club career

Oswaldo Ramírez was born on March 28, 1947 in the Peruvian capital Lima and began playing football for the Sport Boys club in Callao . The attacker played for the Sport Boys from 1966 to 1969 and made 92 league games in that time, in which he scored fifty goals. With this, Oswaldo Ramírez also aroused the interest of the most renowned football clubs in the Andean country, whereupon he was signed by the record champions Universitario de Deportes for the 1970 season . Universitario de Deportes was by far the most successful club in Peru in the 1960s and 1970s and won six championship titles between 1964 and 1974. Oswaldo Ramírez was also involved in two of these championships. In the Primera División 1971 they ranked after the end of all game days in first place with a lead of six points on the first rival Alianza Lima . His second championship with Universitario de Deportes reached Oswaldo Ramírez in the season 1974, when you landed in a final round with six points before Unión Huaral and won the fifteenth title in the club's history. The appearance of Universitario de Deportes in the Copa Libertadores 1972 also caused a stir . Here they were the first Peruvian club to make it into the final after leaving Nacional Montevideo and Peñarol Montevideo behind in the second group stage . In the final, however, coach Roberto Scarone's team failed with 0: 0 and 1: 2 to CA Independiente from Argentina . Together with his teammate Percy Rojas as well as Luis Cubilla and Toninho Guerreiro , Ramírez was also top scorer of the Copa Libertadores in 1972.

From 1975 to 1977 Oswaldo Ramírez was active in Mexico for Atlético Español , with whom he won the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1975 by beating SV Transvaal from Suriname in the final . In the middle of the 1977 season, Ramírez returned to Peru and joined Sporting Cristal , where he was to spend an equally successful time as between 1970 and 1975 at Universitario de Deportes. At Sporting Cristal, Oswaldo Ramírez played for the rest of his career with the exception of a year-long job for Deportivo Galicia in Venezuela and made a total of 129 league games for Sporting Cristal by 1982, in which he scored 64 goals. With the club Ramirez was Peruvian football champion in 1979 and 1980. In the first-mentioned season they finished the final round four points ahead of Atlético Chalaco , while a year later this final round was finished first with five points ahead of Atlético Torino . In addition, Ramirez was in 1980 for the second time since 1968 top scorer of the Peruvian Primera División. In 1981 he also won the Venezuelan cup competition with Deportivo Galicia.

National team

Between 1969 and 1982 Oswaldo Ramírez made a total of 57 international matches for the Peruvian national soccer team , in which he scored a total of seventeen goals. In August 1969, Ramírez scored both Peruvian goals in the decisive qualifier for the 1970 World Cup . In the stadium La Bombonera of Buenos Aires Peru ranking the favored Argentine team a 2: 2, and thus qualified for the World Cup in Mexico. At this Oswaldo Ramírez was then also in the squad of coach Didi's team . The team around players like Héctor Chumpitaz , Teófilo Cubillas or Alberto Gallardo surprisingly survived the preliminary round after finishing second in a group with the Federal Republic of Germany , Bulgaria and Morocco and only lost to Germany. In the quarter-finals, however, Peru had to admit defeat to eventual world champions Brazil 2: 4. Oswaldo Ramírez was not one of the regular players of his team at the 1970 World Cup, he was only substituted in the last two group games against Morocco (3-0) and Germany (1-3) in the second half.

At the Copa América 1975 Oswaldo Ramírez achieved his greatest success with the Peruvian national team. At the Estadio Olímpico de la Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas they defeated Colombia 1-0 in the final and won the Copa America for the second time in the history of Peruvian football. Ramírez contributed three tournament goals to the title win.

successes

Universitario de Deportes

Atletico Español

Sporting Cristal

  • Peruvian Championship: 1979, 1980

Deportivo Galicia

  • Venezuelan Cup victory: 1981

Awards

  • Top scorer of the Copa Libertadores : 1972 and 1975 as a player at Universitario de Deportes
  • Top scorer of the Peruvian Championship : 2 ×
1968 as a player in the Sport Boys
1980 as a player for Sporting Cristal

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personal data
SURNAME Ramírez, Oswaldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramírez Salcedo, Oswaldo Felipe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru