With the 2010 World Cup behind him and dressed in the Sevilla shirt, Sergio Ramos appeared in a video to officially confirm his signing for the Andalusian club. After 18 years, the footballer who won a World Cup (2010) and two Euro Cups (2028 and 2012) with the national team, as well as four Champions Leagues with Real Madrid among many other trophies, showed humility to apologize to that sector from Sevilla who never forgot his gestures towards the Andalusian stands in a Copa del Rey Seville-Madrid in January 2017. Then, after scoring a goal at the Panenka, Sergio Ramos went to the Gol Norte stands, where the Biris are located, the radical rock of the Andalusian club, to mark his name on his back. “Today is a very special day for me, very exciting, I’m finally coming home,” said the new Sevilla player. “18 years have passed since I left and I have made mistakes and I want to apologize and apologize to any Sevilla player who felt offended by gestures and things I could do at the time. We are all in the same boat”, Ramos admitted.
“It was a debt that I had with myself, with my family, with my grandfather, who made me a Sevilla player, and with my father,” added the former Madrid captain, where he played 16 seasons. Sergio Ramos arrived in Seville on Monday morning, passed the medical examination and went to the offices of Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, where he signed the contract that unites him with Sevilla for one season, with the option of another if a series of conditions are met. goals. Ramos will have a salary of about two million euros gross. His signing ended this last Sunday, when he received a call from the club’s vice president, José María del Nido Carrasco, who left behind the reluctance of other leaders to sign a 37-year-old footballer of that size. The bad league start (zero out of nine points) and the pressure received by the vice president made the leader take action. Even the previous president, José María del Nido, father of the vice president and Sevilla’s largest shareholder, called Víctor Orta, sports director, to sign Ramos.
As reflected on the Sevilla website, the defender arrived at the Andalusian club’s youth academy at just seven years old to progress through all the lower ranks of Sevilla and debut in the subsidiary team, Sevilla Atlético, at just 16 years old, in the 2002 season. /03. The following exercise, Joaquín Caparrós gave him the alternative in the first team in a match at Riazor, on February 1, 2004, in which he replaced Paco Gallardo with just under half an hour to go. That season he completed it with a balance of seven league games, finishing the competition as a starter. Already in the 2004-05 academic year, which began at the age of 18, he was a fixture for Caparrós, playing 31 games in the First Division and scoring two goals.
In the 2005-06 campaign he played the opening day against Racing two days before leaving for Real Madrid on the last day of the transfer market and Sevilla receiving 28 million euros. His time at the Santiago Bernabéu can be summed up in figures within the reach of very few: 16 seasons with the white team, with 671 official matches and 101 goals. In addition, he lifted a total of 22 titles between LaLiga (5), Champions League (4), Spanish Super Cup (4), Club World Cup (4), European Super Cup (3) and Copa del Rey (2). After more than fifteen years in the Spanish capital, Ramos ended his contract and went to PSG in the summer of 2021, the club where he has stayed for the last two seasons. He played 58 games between Ligue 1 (45), Champions League (8), French Cup (4) and French Super Cup (1). He scored six goals and won two league titles and one French Super Cup.
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