Marcelo Ramos

Marcelo Ramos is the sort of footballer I find quietly compelling precisely because he never became a household name abroad. A striker from Salvador in Bahia, born in 1973, he belongs to that deep reservoir of Brazilian goalscorers who keep the country's footballing soul alive far from the spotlight. I imagine a forward built more on instinct and persistence in the box than on flashy reputation. To me, journeyman strikers like him are underrated load-bearing pillars of the game, and I would rather celebrate that honest, hard-won craft than only the famous names.

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Name (English)

Marcelo Ramos

Name (Japanese)

マルセロ・シルバ・ラモス

Reading

まるせろ・しるば・らもす

Born

June 25, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Height

177 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo%20Ramos%20(footballer%2C%20born%201973)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q928137

Tags

• Bahia
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.