Ramires

What I admire most about Ramires is that he embodied a position the casual fan tends to overlook: the box-to-box engine that quietly makes a midfield function. He never seemed to crave the spotlight, yet his relentless running stitched defense and attack together for both club and country. Coming out of a small town in Rio de Janeiro state, he turned sheer energy into a career, and that work-rate-over-glamour profile is exactly the kind of player I find myself rooting for. Stars score the goals, but men like Ramires win the games nobody talks about.

Name (English)

Ramires

Name (Japanese)

ラミレス・サントス・ド・ナシメント

Reading

らみれす・さんとす・ど・なしめんと

Born

March 24, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

Origin

Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramires
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%20(%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204407

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-20

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