Élodie Ramos (born 13 March 1983, in

Aix en Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix (Old Occitan, medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a List of communes in France with ov ...

) is a French

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player currently playing for

Montpellier HSC Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (), commonly referred to as Montpellier HSC or simply Montpellier, is a French professional football club based in the city of Montpellier in Occitanie. The original club was founded in 1919, while the current i ...

of the

Division 1 Féminine The Division 1 Féminine, shortened as D1 Féminine or D1F, and currently known as D1 Arkema for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in France. Run by the French Football Federation, the league is contested by twelv ...

. Ramos plays as a striker and is currently one of the longest-serving players at the club, whom she joined in 2002.Montpellier dans le dernier carré
4 April 2011 "Au four et au moulin, Hoda Lattaf débloque la situation sur une frappe d'Élodie Ramos repoussée par la transversale (33e)."

Career

Ramos began her career at her hometown club USM Meyreuil in the

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Meyreuil Meyreuil (; oc, Mairuelh) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France, about from Aix en Provence. Geography Located from Aix-en-Provence, the commune of Meyreuil is sheltered in the northeast by the mountain Mon ...

. After spending nine years at the club, she moved to nearby

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joining Celtic Marseille. After spending a few years in the club's youth system, she played one season on the senior team before moving north to the

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

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joining

SC Schiltigheim Sporting Club de Schiltigheim is a French association football club from Schiltigheim, Alsace. It plays in the Championnat National 3, the fifth tier of football in France. It plays at the Stade de l'Aar in Schiltigheim, which has a capacity of 2 ...

. In her only season with Schiltigheim, she scored 13 goals. Following a successful season, Ramos joined

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

. With Montpellier, she became an instant hit becoming one of the club's most decorated players having won the D1 Féminine on two occasions (2004 and 2005), as well as the

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in 2009. In her eight seasons with Montpellier, Ramos has scored double-digit goals in six and has only collected three yellow cards.

International career

Ramos made her international debut on 22 February 2002 against

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. She scored her only international goal to date on 14 March 2007 in a 1–3 loss to

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at the

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* * 1983 births Living people French women's footballers Montpellier HSC (women) players France women's international footballers Sportspeople from Aix-en-Provence Footballers from Bouches-du-Rhône French people of Spanish descent Division 1 Féminine players Women's association football forwards {{France-women-footy-bio-stub