Ramón Colón Acevedo (22 March 1916 – 1999) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender for Atlético Madrid.
[1][2][3] He later became a manager, taking charge over Atlético Madrid, Real Murcia CF, and Rayo Vallecano.
[3] After his career as a player ended, Colón remained linked to Atlético, now as a coach of the amateur and youth teams for several years, with which he was proclaimed champion of Spain.
[6] Knowing like few others about the Madrid football academy, Colón brought with him two kids with huge potential, the 18-year-old Joaquín Peiró and the 20-year-old Enrique Collar.
[6] The latter was claimed in the middle of the season by his parent club, but Colón pulled another one from Real Madrid, Ramón Marsal, thus forming a team with which he achieved promotion to the First Division in the 1954–55 season,[6][8] with the journalist Juan Antonio Calvo, the head of the sports section of the La Verdad newspaper stating that "of the eleven times that Murcia has risen to the First Division, it has never done so with such little suffering and as much anticipation as the one that has just occurred".