Eric dos Santos Rodrigues (born 10 August 2000), known as Eric Ramires or Ramires, is a Brazilian professional

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who plays as a

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for Red Bull Bragantino.

Club career

Bahia

Born in

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, Ramires joined

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's youth setup in 2011. He played regularly for the under-15 and under-17 sides, going on to win the Copa Red Ball, Copa Dois de Julho and Copa Metropolitana. On 6 September 2018, Eric Ramires made his first team – and Série A – debut, starting in a 2–0 victory over

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; by doing so, he became the first player born in 2000 to play for the club. On 15 September, his contract was extended until 2022. On 21 September 2018, Ramires made his

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debut, starting and scoring the opener in a 2–1 home defeat of

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Basel

On 2 September 2019, Ramires da Silva signed with Swiss club

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

. The club announced the loan for their 2019–20 season under manager

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on their home page on that day. He played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game at the

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on 25 September as Basel won 4–0 against

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. He was substituted in for the last seven minutes of the match. The club announced that the contract with Ramires would not be prolonged on 5 September 2020. During his one season with the club Ramires played a total of 12 games for Basel without scoring a goal. Nine of these games were in the

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, two in the

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and one was a friendly game.

International career

On 13 December 2018, Ramires was included in Brazil under-20s for the

2019 South American U-20 Championship The 2019 South American U-20 Championship was the 29th edition of the South American U-20 Championship ( es, CONMEBOL Sudamericano Sub-20, pt, CONMEBOL Sul-Americano Sub-20), the biennial international youth football championship organised by C ...

Career statistics

References

External links

EC Bahia profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramires, Eric 2000 births Living people Footballers from Salvador, Bahia Men's association football midfielders Brazilian men's footballers Esporte Clube Bahia players FC Basel players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Swiss Super League players Red Bull Bragantino players Brazil men's under-20 international footballers Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland