Ramón Pereira

Ramón Pereira Gómez (born 12 September 1978) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pereira and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.
Ramón Pereira
Personal information
Full name Ramón Pereira Gómez
Date of birth (1978-09-12) 12 September 1978
Place of birth Mérida, Spain
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Mérida
Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 Atlético Madrid B 8 (0)
1998–1999 Mérida 6 (0)
1999 Écija 8 (0)
2000 Ponferradina 13 (3)
2000 Getafe 7 (1)
2001–2002 Xerez 34 (2)
2002–2003 Ponferradina 13 (2)
2003 Logroñés 14 (1)
2004 Raith Rovers 10 (5)
2004–2005 Hearts 16 (2)
2005 Livingston 11 (1)
2006–2007 Ponferradina 39 (2)
2007–2008 Huesca 23 (0)
2009 Atlético Baleares 8 (0)
2009 Jerez Industrial 5 (1)
2010–2011 Las Rozas
Total 215 (21)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In a journeyman career, he totalled 65 games and three goals in Segunda División with five clubs, and 113 matches and nine goals in Segunda División B in service of seven teams. He also spent two years in Scotland, representing Hearts and Livingston in the Scottish Premier League.

Club career

Early years

Born in Mérida, Extremadura, Pereira went from hometown club CP Mérida to Atlético Madrid as a youth, and made his professional debut with the latter's reserves on 21 September 1997, in a 1–1 Segunda División away draw against Real Jaén where he came on as an 86th-minute substitute for Luis Tevenet.[1] Used rarely, as he was the following season in the same level at his previous team, he dropped down to Segunda División B where he played for Écija Balompié and SD Ponferradina over the next two years.

In 2000, Pereira signed for division two side Getafe CF, and scored his first professional goal on 19 November by converting a penalty in a 4–1 win at Elche CF after also coming from the bench. He concluded the campaign with Xerez CD whom he helped to promotion to that tier, and represented the Andalusians there for one and a half years before a brief return to Ponferradina, signing for CD Logroñés also in the third division at the start of 2003–04.

Scotland

Amidst his last club's financial crisis that would see them eventually relegated for administrative reasons, Pereira moved abroad on 10 January 2004, signing for Raith Rovers of the Scottish Football League First Division.[2] After scoring regularly in Kirkcaldy, he joined Heart of Midlothian in the Scottish Premier League on a one-year deal;[3] manager Craig Levein likened him to Nacho Novo, another attacker who went from the lower Spanish leagues to the SPL via Raith.[4]

Pereira's opportunities were limited at the Tynecastle Stadium, and in the summer of 2005 he transferred to fellow league team Livingston. He netted his first goal for them in a 1–1 draw with Dunfermline Athletic.[5] On 21 September, he finished Derek Adams' cross to score the only goal of a home win over a previously unbeaten Hearts in the third round of the Scottish League Cup.[6]

Pereira left the Livi Lions on 30 November 2005, to return to his homeland.[7]

Later career

Pereira signed for a third time at Ponferradina in January 2006, helping them to a first-ever promotion to the second level in his first year. On 6 May 2007, he scored the only goal away to CD Tenerife,[8] but his team was eventually sent back to where they came from.

Until his retirement at the age of 33, Pereira competed in the third tier or lower.[9]

References
  1. Bravo, Francisco Javier (22 September 1997). "Los de La Victoria siguen sin conocerla" [Those from The Victory ("La Victoria" in English, Jaén's ground) still do not know it]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. "Ex-Madrid striker joins Raith". BBC Sport. 10 January 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  3. "Pereira to join Hearts". BBC Sport. 16 June 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  4. "Pereira is 'the new Novo'". BBC Sport. 29 June 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  5. "Livingston 1–1 Dunfermline Ath". BBC Sport. 20 August 2005. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  6. "Livingston 1–0 Hearts". BBC Sport. 21 September 2005. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  7. "Livingston lose striker Pereira". BBC Sport. 30 November 2005. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  8. "El Heliodoro censura al peor Tenerife de la temporada" [The Heliodoro scolds worst Tenerife of the season]. El Diario (in Spanish). 6 May 2007. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  9. "Ramón Pereira, la guinda" [Ramón Pereira, icing on the cake]. Diario de Jerez (in Spanish). 2 September 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
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