Antoni Ramallets
Antoni Ramallets with ball
Antoni Ramallets i Simón ( born June 4, 1924 in Barcelona, † July 30, 2013 in Vilafranca del Penedès ) was a Spanish football player.
Career
Club career
As a 17 -year-old Antoni Ramallets began at CD Europe Barcelona, played then because of the large club of the city had indeed seen him, but initially had no interest in San Fernando and RCD Mallorca. 1946 undertook the CF Barcelona goalkeeper finally - to borrow it immediately to Real Valladolid. A year later came back Ramallets for CF, but only sat there on the bench or played in Barca's second team - until he suddenly was allowed to play for the league team due to an eye injury of the root goalkeeper Velasco in November 1949 for the first time. He took advantage of this opportunity so compelling that he made the previous number 1 quickly forgotten and hardly ever missed in the lineup in the next 13 years. More, only seven months after his first league use, he traveled in the summer of 1950 with the national team as a goalkeeper for the World Cup ( see below).
Until his resignation in 1962 Antoni has Ramallets (538 games total ) for Barcelona stood in 473 competitive games in goal and had a considerable share in the many successes of the club with its magnificent parades, but also his peace and security. During these years he was with the CF four times Spanish champion (some also include the two titles with him when he only sat on the bench ) and won five times the National Cup. Twice he was personally awarded the Trofeo Zamora as a goalkeeper with the fewest league goals conceded - and there would have been this trophy not only from the season 1958/59, he had won in 1952, 1956 and 1957. It should not be forgotten that these successes Ramallets won in a time in which the Catalans had with Europe at that time the best club team, Real Madrid, an almost overpowering rivals in their own country.
1952 won Ramallets with Barça the Coupe Latine, 1958 and 1960, the Fairs Cup. In Europe Champions Cup in 1961, he became known to a wider German audience, as he brought the striker Hamburger SV to Uwe Seeler almost to despair in the semifinals. Nevertheless, football Germany fancied up a few moments before the final whistle of the second leg in Volksparkstadion already in the final; but reached for a playoff in Brussels Barcelona. This finale lost the CF then in May 1961, however, with 2:3 against Benfica, which calculated the reliable goalkeeper underwent an own goal.
With almost 38 years, he left the home stadium of the competitive sports.
National players
Between June 1950 and May 1961 denied Ramallets 35 caps for Spain.
His very first international appearance was in the second group match of the World Cup 1950 held in Brazil, as the nearly 26 -year-old Nationalelfneuling against Chile held his box clean and was subsequently used against England. In this game Ramallets responded almost uncanny instinct in a variety of dangerous situations and saved the 1-0 lead, which Spain gave the surprising entry into the finals of the four group winners. The next day, the newspapers wrote of the "Cat of Maracanã " and thus thought the goalie from Barcelona. The was then whether its sensational Constitution praised after the game against Uruguay, although the equalizer of the later world champion to a 2-2 draw seemed durable. And he would at 1:6 not as shiny parried a few days later against such unleashed aufspielende Seleção, Spain would have gone with a two digit pack from the square. At the end of this tournament Ramallets was surprisingly become World Cup Fourth with his colleagues - an important propaganda success for the account of the Franco dictatorship internationally relatively isolated country and sporting one of the best placement that have reached the Spaniards in the 20th century. Although he had only four of the six Spanish games contested and thereby suffered eight hits, and was the late debutant from Barcelona known as the best goalkeeper of the tournament.
Life after the active period
Antoni Ramallets has worked for several years as coach after 1962, including in Valladolid, Zaragoza, Logroño and Murcia, and then belonged to two years at the technical advisory board of FC Barcelona. He then returned to football altogether the back and worked in a bank. On July 30, 2013 Ramallets died after a long illness at the age of 89 years in Vilafranca del Penedès.
Awards
- Spanish Champion: 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960 ( and nominally, but without inserts, 1948 and 1949 )
- Spanish Cup winners: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959
- European Champion Clubs' Cup: Finalist 1961
- Fairs Cup winners: 1958, 1960
- Winner of the Coupe Latine: 1952
- 35 A- international matches; World Cup 1950 Fourth
- Winner of the Trofeo Zamora: 1959, 1960