Jorge Ramírez (footballer, born 1975)

Jorge Ramírez
Personal information
Full name Jorge Eduardo Ramírez Tabacchi
Date of birth (1975-09-07) 7 September 1975
Place of birth Lima, Peru
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1997 Alianza Lima
1994América Cochahuayco (loan)
1997 Tampico Madero 0 (0)
1997 Sporting Cristal 9 (1)
1998 Skoda Xanthi 7 (0)
1998 Alianza Lima 9 (0)
1999 Unión Minas 21 (2)
1999–2000 Alianza Atlético 57 (10)
2001 Deportivo Wanka 44 (22)
2002 Espérance Sportive de Tunis
2002–2004 Coronel Bolognesi 81 (15)
2005 Sporting Cristal 9 (0)
2005 FBC Melgar 19 (3)
2006 Olympiakos Nicosia 2 (0)
2006 José Gálvez FBC 13 (0)
2007 Puerto Rico Islanders 3 (1)
2014 Isabela SC
International career
1996 Peru Olympic
1996–2001 Peru 3 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jorge Eduardo Ramírez Tabacchi (born September 7, 1975) is a Peruvian former footballer who played as forward.

Playing career

Club career

A rising star of Peruvian football, Jorge Ramírez (nicknamed Loverita) made his debut for Alianza Lima in 1993. He scored 15 goals between 1995 and 1996 but then suffered a long career slump. He would never score again for Alianza Lima, a club he nevertheless returned to in 1998. In the interim, he played abroad for Tampico Madero (Mexico) in 1997 and then for Skoda Xanthi (Greece) the following year.

Back in Peru, after some less-than-successful spells at Sporting Cristal, Unión Minas, and Alianza Atlético between 1997 and 2000, he returned to prominence with Deportivo Wanka, where he became the top scorer in the 2001 Peruvian league with 21 goals.[2]

He moved abroad for a third time, this time to Tunisia with Espérance Sportive de Tunis (champions in 2002).[3] Quickly returning to Peru, he joined Coronel Bolognesi between 2002 and 2004, where he had the opportunity to play under Jorge Sampaoli.[4]

After a stint in 2005 with Sporting Cristal, he had his fourth experience abroad when he signed with Olympiakos Nicosia (Cyprus) in 2006. He finished his career in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Islanders in 2007, and seven years later, with Isabela SC, where he definitively ended his playing career).

International career

Jorge Ramírez participated with the Peruvian Olympic team in the 1996 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament. Having become an international player, he had three caps (no goals scored) for the Peruvian national team between 1996 and 2001.[1]

Personal life

After retiring from professional football, Ramírez worked as a youth manager in Puerto Rico.[5]

Honours

Espérance Sportive de Tunis

Deportivo Wanka

References

  1. ^ a b Jorge Ramírez at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. ^ a b Juan Pablo Andrés, Carlos Manuel Nieto Tarazona and José Luis Pierrend (16 December 2025). "Peru - List of First Division Topscorers". RSSSF. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b Aldo Ramírez (27 February 2012). "Esperánce Tunis 1994 y 2011: Sangre y oro de esperanza" [Esperance Tunis 1994 and 2011: Blood and gold of hope]. De Chalaca (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  4. ^ Miguel Rodríguez (28 June 2020). "Jorge 'Loverita' Ramírez: "Luego de un clásico le armé la 'bronca' a Roberto Martínez"" [Jorge ‘Loverita’ Ramírez: “After a Clásico, I started a fight with Roberto Martínez”]. Depor (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Jorge Ramírez trabaja en Chile dirigiendo su centro de alto rendimiento". elpopular.pe (Archived). 9 April 2021. Retrieved 2024-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)