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2015 FIFA U20 World Cup
Personnel
Surname	Tabaré Ramos Ricciardi
birthday	September 21, 1966
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1984-1988	NC State Wolfpack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1988	New Jersey Eagles	8 (2)
1989	Miami Sharks	3 (0)
1990-1992	UE Figueres	79 (9)
1992-1995	Betis Seville	18 (0)
1996	UANL Tigres	0 (0)
1996-2002	NY / NJ MetroStars	121 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1988-2000	United States	81 (8)
1989	USA futsal	8 (3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2011–	USA U20
2014-2014	USA-U23
1 Only league games are given.

Tabaré Ramos Ricciardi (born September 21, 1966 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is a former American football player and current coach.

Tab Ramos ended his career in 2002. He played 81 times for the USA between 1988 and 2000 and scored 8 goals. 2005 was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Youth and college

At the age of 11, Tab Ramos emigrated with his family from Uruguay to the USA. He played soccer for the Union Vecinal Youth Club in his native country. He moved to New Jersey , where he attended Saint Benedict's Preparatory School. The same school Claudio Reyna attended a few years later. His first soccer club in the USA was Thistle FC.

In 1984 he was drafted as a teenager by the NASL club Cosmos New York , but decided to study at North Carolina State University because the NASL was discontinued.

At NC State he played four years for the college selection and three times for the All-American team, where the best players of all colleges in the country are accepted for a year.

Professional career

In 1988 he became a senior international and left college. It wasn't until 2001 that he graduated in Spanish and Literature. He made his first international match on January 10, 1988 against Guatemala . He took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1990 and 1994 he was part of the US World Cup squad. In 1994 he was injured so badly at halftime in the round of 16 game against Brazil that he could not continue playing and the Brazilian Leonardo got the red card. With the US futsal team , he finished third in the first Futsal World Cup in 1989 .

Spain

From 1990 to 1996 he played in Spain for the third division club UE Figueres and the then second division Betis Sevilla . He then moved to Mexico for the UANL Tigres .

MetroStars

When the Major League Soccer was founded in 1996 , Tab Ramos returned to the USA and played for NY / NJ MetroStars . He was the first player to sign a contract with the MLS. In the United States he played 121 games and scored 9 goals.

Coaching career

Since the end of his career, Ramos has run a football school and sports park in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey . He is also the coach of the US U-20 national soccer team and in 2014 also looked after the U-23 national soccer team . In addition to these activities, he is also the assistant coach of the US national soccer team under Jürgen Klinsmann and Ramos is the technical director of the youth division within the USSF .

Web links

• Tab Ramos in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Soccer Hall of Fame
• MLS timeline

predecessor	Office	successor
Mike Windischmann	USA Footballer of the Year 1990	Hugo Perez