Ruy Ramos

Ruy Ramos arrived from Rio and ended up as the creative heart of Japan's national team, which is still one of the more remarkable journeys this sport has produced. He took Japanese citizenship and became a central figure in the game here just as the professional era was being born. What stays with me is Doha in 1993, when Japan conceded in stoppage time and lost its place at the World Cup: the image of Ramos collapsed on the pitch said everything about how completely he had adopted this country as his own. He played with his voice as much as his feet, dragging teammates up to his level of intensity rather than waiting for them to arrive. Coaching, beach soccer, television work afterward — he never learned how to sit still. Japanese football grew up partly because someone that emotional was standing in the middle of it.

Name (English)

Ruy Ramos

Name (Japanese)

ラモス瑠偉

Reading

らもす瑠偉

Born

February 9, 1957 (age 69)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

181 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach / beach soccer player

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.sunget.co.jp/ramos/index2.html
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E7%91%A0%E5%81%89

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player
• association football coach
• beach soccer player

Last updated

2026-07-27

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.