Ramon Vega

Playing career

He played in his time at the Junior Football Club Trimbach and started his professional career in 1990 in his home at Grasshopper Club Zurich, with whom he 1991, 1995 and 1996, won the Swiss football championship and the 1994 Swiss Cup. In 1996, he ventured after the third championship ventured abroad and went to Italy to Cagliari Calcio. He remained there, however, only six months and was obliged for a sum of £ 3750000 in January 1997 by the English first division club Tottenham Hotspur. In his debut season for Spurs he came to eight games and scored against Aston Villa to score, but Vega was also made in the match against Nottingham Forest on course and the next season he played himself increasingly to the fore, as the Swiss one of the key players in White Hart Lane was.

In 1999, he won with the Hotspurs the League Cup after Leicester City were defeated 1-0 in the final. But Vega played at this time not as convincing as before, and the Spurs sent him in December 2000 to a loan to the Scottish club Celtic tradition. At Celtic he was its role and came in 18 league games for use where shot of the Swiss two goals. He played the best season of his career and won 2000/ 01 with Celtic the domestic treble consisting of Scottish Premier League, Scottish FA Cup and Scottish League Cup.

In June 2001, he went back to the Spurs, but there the plan was no longer with him and Vega decided to leave the club. So he signed a few days later a contract with Watford FC, then playing in the second-rate Football League First Division. Although Vega lay a good start to the season and also scored several goals, he was no longer considered end of the season and left the team after a year. His last position as a professional was the U.S. Créteil, where he still played a season and then announced his retirement from professional football.

For the Swiss national football team, he stood in 23 countries playing in use and scored a goal. He participated with the national team at the European Football Championship in 1996 and was eliminated with one point from three games as a group Last of the tournament.

After the End of career

In February 2009, Ramon Vega, now businessman, acted as a possible buyer of the debt-ridden club Portsmouth FC. The Swiss should have been a member of a consortium that had drawn the purchase of the ailing club into consideration. The takeover bid was rejected because, according to club specifications Ramon Vega could not prove to have sufficient capital to support the acquisition.

Ramon Vega works as an independent asset manager in London.