He Seville confirmed this Monday what was already an open secret and, as anticipated for days, Sergio Ramos will play for the Spanish club this 2023-24 campaign, thus closing the doors to the MLS and the Saudi Arabian league at least for a season.
Through their social networks, the Nervionenses announced the return of the central defender, 18 years after he left the club where he was born professionally to sign for Real Madrid and become one of the benchmarks of the Merengue club.
The defender finalized his return after being released on June 30 from his commitment to the Paris Saint-Germainso there was no impediment to sign for a campaign with the red and white.
Sergio Ramos, who arrived in Seville this Monday morning to undergo a medical examination and sign his contract, thus returns to the club where he played 49 games in his first spell and in which he broke into the elite after passing through all the teams and categories of the Sevilla youth academy, which he arrived at when he was only seven years old and in which he made his debut in the first branch at just 16 in the 2002/03 season.
The following exercise, already established in the then Sevilla B, Joaquín Caparrós gives him the alternative in the first team in a match at Riazor, on February 1, 2004, in which he replaces Paco Gallardo with just under half an hour to go. final; and that season he completes it with a balance of seven league games, finishing the competition as a starter.
Already in 2004/05, which he started at the age of 18, he is a regular for Caparrós, playing 31 games in the First Division and scoring two goals, and also plays four games in the Copa del Rey and six from UEFA, signing one of the goals in the win in Nervión against CD Nacional.
In 2005/06 he played the opening day against Racing two days before leaving for the real Madrid on the last day of the transfer market and, at the Madrid club, he soon became a fixture in the center of defense and, in sixteen seasons, played 671 official matches in which he scored 101 goals and won a total of 22 titles between LaLiga EA Sports (5), Champions League (4), Spanish Super Cup (4), Club World Cup (4), European Super Cup (3) and Copa del Rey (2).
After his time at Real Madrid, he left for Paris Saint-Germain in 2021, where he has played 58 games between Ligue 1 (45), Champions League (8), French Cup (4) and French Super Cup (1), and won two league titles and one French Super Cup.
With the selection of SpainSergio Ramos made his senior international debut in March 2005 in a friendly against China in Salamanca, after which he has made 180 appearances for the national team, with whom he He has been World Champion in South Africa 2010 and Europe in 2008 and 2012.
He has played in the final phase of four World Cups -Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018-, as well as three Euro Cups -Austria and Switzerland 2008, Poland and Ukraine 2012 and France 2016-; and has also participated in the Confederations Cup in 2009 and 2013; however, a few months ago he announced his retirement from the Red Fury.
*With information from EFE.
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