José Francisco Ramírez

For other people named Francisco Ramírez, see Francisco Ramírez (disambiguation).

Francisco Ramírez
Personal information
Full name	José Francisco Ramírez Pineda
Date of birth	(1976-07-10) 10 July 1976
Place of birth	Amapala, Valle, Honduras
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1994–1996	El Tigre
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–2000	Motagua	35	(27)
2000	Dundee United	1	(0)
2001–2002	Motagua	44	(9)
2002–2005	Platense	122	(50)
2005–2006	Marathón	12	(4)
2006–2007	Platense	28	(4)
2008	Vida	12	(1)
2008	Vista Hermosa	15	(2)
2010	Walter Ferretti		(10)
National team^‡
1999–2006	Honduras	18	(10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2005. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2006

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ramírez and the second or maternal family name is Pineda.

José Francisco Ramírez Pineda (born 10 July 1976), known as Francisco Ramirez, is a retired Honduran footballer.

He was nicknamed Pancho Ra' and was the biggest transfer in the Honduran league, at that time, when Marathón acquired him from Platense in 2006 for 1,6 million lempiras.^[1]

Club career

Ramírez started his career at Motagua for whom he started scoring goals soon and caught the eye of foreign clubs. In 2000, Ramírez and two teammates from Motagua, Reynaldo Clavasquín and Gustavo Fuentes, were transferred to Scottish Premier League club Dundee United.^[2] All three had their contracts cancelled within a few weeks, in Ramírez's case after only four minutes of first team action when he came in as a sub against Celtic on 21 October 2000.^[3]

He then returned to Motagua before a prolific spell at Platense and a less successful stint at Marathón. In October 2003 he scored his 50th league goal against Vida.^[4] When at Platense, Ramírez was top goalscorer of the 2005 Apertura season with 13 goals^[5] and, by May 2009, was the Honduran league's third top goalscorer of all time with 95 goals scored for 4 different teams.^[6]

He seemed to end his career at Salvadoran side Vista Hermosa and returned to Honduras in 2009 to drive tourists around in his hometown Amapala with a motorcycle taxi.^[7]

In January 2010 he moved abroad again to play for Nicaraguan side Walter Ferretti^[8] for whom he would score 10 goals.^[9]

Team	Season	Games	Start	Sub	Goal	YC	RC
Club Deportivo Platense	2002-03 A	15	9	4	5	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2002-03 C	14	13	1	4	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2003-04 A	17	15	2	6	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2003-04 C	18	17	1	6	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2004-05 A	18	17	1	6	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2004-05 C	20	18	2	10	-	-
Club Deportivo Platense	2005-06 A	20	18	2	13	-	-

International career

Ramírez made his debut for Honduras in a March 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Belize and he immediately scored his first international goal when coming on as a sub for Christian Santamaría. He has earned a total of 18 caps, scoring 10 goals. He has represented his country in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches^[10] and played at the 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup,^[11] as well as at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[12]

His final international was a January friendly match against Ecuador.

International goals

N.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	19 March 1999	Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica	Belize	4–1	5–1	1999 UNCAF Nations Cup
2	24 March 1999	Estadio Nacional, San José, Costa Rica	El Salvador	3–1	3–1	1999 UNCAF Nations Cup
3	23 July 2000	National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica	Jamaica	1–0	1–3	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
4	16 August 2000	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2–0	6–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
5	16 August 2000	Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4–0	6–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
6	15 November 2000	Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1–0	7–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
7	15 November 2000	Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2–0	7–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
8	25 April 2003	Stade Riviére-Pilote, Fort-de-France, Martinique	Trinidad and Tobago	2–0	2–0	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
9	27 April 2003	Stade d'Honneur de Dillon, Fort-de-France, Martinique	Martinique	2–1	4–2	2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
10	2 July 2005	Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, Canada	Canada	1–0	2–1	Friendly match

References

↑ Desafíe a Ismael – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ HONDURAS TRIO SIGNED – Dundee United
↑ 1st Team (Jose) Francisco Ramirez – Dundee United
↑ Roger Rojas, camino a ser el nuevo “matador” del Olimpia – Diez (Spanish)
↑ Cardozo, 7 años después iguala marca – Diez (Spanish)
↑ Desafíe a Ismael – La Prensa (Spanish)
↑ Francisco Ramírez: El otro año vuelvo – La Tribuna (Spanish)
↑ "Pancho" Ramírez fichó por el Ferreti de Nicaragua – El Heraldo (Spanish)
↑ Los grandes goleadores de Honduras – Diez (Spanish)
↑ José Francisco Ramírez – FIFA competition record
↑ UNCAF Tournament 1999 – RSSSF
↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2005 – Full Details – RSSSF

External links

José Francisco Ramírez at National-Football-Teams.com

Honduran Liga Nacional awards

Top goalscorers	1965–66: Grey 1966–67: Caballero 1967–68: Garden 1968–69: Abrussezze 1969–70: Ortega 1970–71: Alvarado 1971–72: Alvarado 1972–73: none 1973–74: Blandón & Plummer 1974–75: Rodríguez 1975–76: López 1976–77: O. Hernández 1977–78: Carreño 1978–79: Bernárdez 1979–80: Norales 1980–81: Altamirano 1981–82: Altamirano 1982–83: Altamirano 1983–84: Gamboa 1984–85: Altamirano 1985–86: Flores 1986–87: Dueñas 1987–88: Machado 1988–89: Matthews, Alonso, Lobo & Gamboa 1989–90: Ávila 1990–91: Vallejo 1991–92: Bennett 1992–93: Arriola 1993–94: Chacón 1994–95: Ávila 1995–96: Castro 1996–97: Costa 1997–98 A: Velásquez 1997–98 C: Guevara & Velásquez 1998–99: de Lima 1999–00 A: Velásquez 1999–00 C: Cárcamo 2000–01 A: Verón 2000–01 C: Cacho 2001–02 A: Reneau 2001–02 C: M. Ferreira 2002–03 A: M. Ferreira 2002–03 C: Costa, Cacho & Emílio 2003–04 A: Tosello 2003–04 C: Emílio 2004–05 A: Emílio 2004–05 C: Ramírez 2005–06 A: Ramírez 2005–06 C: Emílio 2006–07 A: Costly 2006–07 C: Pavón 2007–08 A: E. Martínez 2007–08 C: Velásquez 2008–09 A: E. Ferreira 2008–09 C: Diduch 2009–10 A: Palacios 2009–10 C: Bengtson 2010–11 A: Bengtson 2010–11 C: Bengtson 2011–12 A: Cardozo 2011–12 C: Torlacoff & Copete 2012–13 A: Rojas 2012–13 C: R. Martínez 2013–14 A: Castillo 2013–14 C: R. Martínez 2014–15 A: E. Hernández 2014–15 C: Castillo 2015–16 A: Vega 2015–16 C: Elis & Vega

Best goalkeepers	1965–66: Chesman 1966–67: Norales 1967–68: Norales 1968–69: Norales 1969–70: Norales 1970–71: Dubois 1971–72: Santini 1972–73: none 1973–74: Mayorga 1974–75: Mayorga 1975–76: Santini 1976–77: Rivera 1977–78: Rivera 1978–79: Morales 1979–80: Mayorga 1980–81: Stewart 1981–82: Morales 1982–83: Rivera 1983–84: Solís 1984–85: Guerrero 1985–86: Banegas 1986–87: Herrera 1987–88: Rivera 1988–89: Banegas 1989–90: Tejeda 1990–91: Bautista 1991–92: Henríquez 1992–93: Cubillo 1993–94: Palacios 1994–95: Banegas 1995–96: Flores 1996–97: Prono 1997–98 A: Vásquez 1997–98 C: Vásquez 1998–99: Prono 1999–00 A: Prono 1999–00 C: Prono 2000–01 A: González 2000–01 C: González 2001–02 A: González 2001–02 C: Flores 2002–03 A: James 2002–03 C: Medina 2003–04 A: Escober 2003–04 C: Coello 2004–05 A: Morales 2004–05 C: Vásquez 2005–06 A: Valladares 2005–06 C: James 2006–07 A: Valladares 2006–07 C: Vallecillo 2007–08 A: Bodden 2007–08 C: Valladares 2008–09 A: Canales 2008–09 C: Escober 2009–10 A: Morales 2009–10 C: de León 2010–11 A: Bodden 2010–11 C: Orio 2011–12 A: Escober 2011–12 C: Orio 2012–13 A: Morales 2012–13 C: Cárcamo 2013–14 A: Bodden 2013–14 C: Portigliatti 2014–15 A: Cárcamo 2014–15 C: Morales 2015–16 A: Zúniga 2015–16 C: Morales

Honduras squad – 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-finalists

1 Coello 2 Henríquez 3 Figueroa 4 Caballero 6 Izaguirre 7 E. Núñez 8 Palacios 9 Ramírez 10 Velásquez 11 M. Núñez 13 Berríos 14 García 16 Vega 18 Morán 19 Turcios 20 Thomas 21 Vallecillo 22 Morales 23 Guerrero 24 Guifarro 25 Garden Coach: Herrera

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