[2] At the end of the 1929–30 season, the 18-year-old Ramón was signed by Amadeo García to play for Deportivo Alavés, then coached by José Baonza and where he coincided with Simón Lecue, making his debut in La Liga on 1 March 1931, in the 13th matchday against Athletic Club.
[2][10] Even though Amadeo wanted to extend his contract, offering him 400 pesetas in salary and a job at the Metalúrgica, he still left the club at the end of the season, although years later he regretted the decision not to continue at Alavés.
[8][9] Due to his family's ideological tendencies, he lost his father to cachexia in a concentration camp in Galicia, his brother Julián to torture in the El Dueso prison in Santoña, and his uncle to forced labor in the construction of the Valley of the Fallen.
[2][4] Despite always being rocky in contact, Ramón was not a tough player, so he avoided clashes with his rivals, but still, he suffered several serious injuries; for instance, Marcelino Campanal broke his nose in a match against Sevilla, leaving him forever with that look of an experienced boxer.
[2] Julio Elícegui broke his arm in a match against Atlético Madrid, which meant a long period of inactivity, and after a clash with a Castellón forward on 14 November 1943, both players had to be removed with bloody faces.
[2] Ramón only suffered two red cards throughout his career; the first, in the final of the 1937 Copa de la España Libre on 18 July, after getting into a fight with Levante player Vicente Martínez Catalá, who went to the locker room with him,[2][9][14] and the second red card in Murcia, on 23 February 1941, in front of a stadium inflamed by the rumors of the nationalist newspapers, where they shouted "criminal" at him every time he touched the ball, causing the referee, twisted by the fear of the virulence of the stands, to beg him to leave the field of play.
[9] According to his son, Ramón lasted until his 40s because of his healthcare: He never smoked or drank, and trained every day of the year, rarely took a break or a vacation, and after the games, the first thing he did when he arrived home was to sleep for two hours to recover.
[9] At the time, footballers had little rights and rarely received what their contracts stipulated, so Ramón, irreducible both on and off the field, raised his voice against the habitual abuses of clubs and used his influence to obtain good bonuses for his teammates, preventing many of them from falling into trouble by advising them on what they should sign.
[3] During his second season at the helm of Ceuta in 1960–61, the club was the leader for many days in the second Group of the Second Division, but ultimately finished as runner-ups to Tenerife, and then lost the promotion play-off to Elche 4–1 on aggregate.
[8][9] He also ran a successful bar-restaurant in Valencia, where he served and commented on the games with a directness that is unthinkable in today's football,[2] and on one occasion, after returning from a match, the police were waiting for him at the northern station and arrested him because the restaurant was two and a half minutes past closing time.
[9] In his later years, Ramón developed senile dementia, and on one occasion, his wife arrived home and did not find him there, so she quickly alerted their daughter, who found him in Mestalla, "in pajamas and slippers taking short walks waiting for it to open".