José Francisco Ramírez Pineda (born 10 July 1976) is a retired Honduran

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. He was nicknamed ''Pancho Ra and was the biggest transfer in the Honduran league, at that time, when Marathón acquired him from Platense in 2006 for 1,6 million lempiras.

Club career

Ramírez started his career at Motagua where he started scoring goals and caught the eye of foreign clubs. In 2000, Ramírez and two teammates from Motagua, Reynaldo Clavasquín and Gustavo Fuentes, were transferred to

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. All three had their contracts cancelled within a few weeks, in Ramírez's case after only four minutes of first team action when he came in as a sub against

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on 21 October 2000. He then returned to Motagua before a prolific spell at Platense and a less successful stint at Marathón. In October 2003 he scored his 50th league goal against Vida. When at Platense, Ramírez was top goalscorer of the 2005 Apertura season with 13 goals and, by May 2009, was the Honduran league's third top goalscorer of all time with 95 goals scored for 4 different teams. He seemed to end his career at Salvadoran side Vista Hermosa and returned to Honduras in 2009 to drive tourists around in his hometown Amapala with a motorcycle taxi. In January 2010 he moved abroad again to play for Nicaraguan side Walter Ferretti for whom he would score 10 goals.

International career

Ramírez made his debut for

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in a March

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match against

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and he immediately scored his first international goal when coming on as a sub for Christian Santamaría. He has earned a total of 18 caps, scoring 10 goals. He has represented his country in 4

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matches and played at the

, as well as at the

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– RSSSF His final international was a January

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against

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International goals

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramirez, Francisco 1976 births Living people People from Valle Department Men's association football forwards Honduran men's footballers Honduras men's international footballers 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players F.C. Motagua players Dundee United F.C. players Platense F.C. players C.D. Marathón players C.D.S. Vida players C.D. Vista Hermosa footballers C.D. Walter Ferretti players Honduran expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland Expatriate men's footballers in El Salvador Expatriate men's footballers in Nicaragua Honduran expatriate sportspeople in El Salvador Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Nicaragua Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players Scottish Premier League players