Ramón Ramírez (footballer)

Jesús Ramón Ramírez Ceceña (born 5 December 1969) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

He was one of the top Mexican footballers in the 1990s, but despite the speculations surrounding his talents, he never moved to Europe to play for a much more competitive club.

In the 1991–1992 season, in a match against America, Carlos Alberto "El Escorpión" Carrillo, a defender of that team fractured his tibia and fibula.

He managed come back after several months, to continue with brilliant displays with Santos Laguna, and in 1993, he recovered his spot in the national team.

In this team, he had difficult times to recover; he wasn't even registered with his preferred number 7 (retired in honour to the peruvian player Gerónimo Barbadillo in 1982).

On December 12, 2000, Ramírez, while driving at high velocity well above the permitted speed limit, collided with another vehicle that left him injured for several months and in the accident it killed an entire family of 5.

The professor's wife, Evangelina Rodríguez Aceves, was launched from the vehicle into incoming traffic and hit the pavement where she was run over by another car.

[2] Ramírez received his first call-up to the senior national team in 1991 as a promising young talent, and after recovering from a tibia and fibula fracture in 1993, he played regularly for Mexico until 2000.

Ramírez was again called to be part of the national team for the World Cup USA 1994, in which he continued playing as left back.