Jorge Enrique Ramírez Gallego (born 25 March 1940) is a former Colombian

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forward. He is the all-time leading goal-scorer for

Deportivo Cali Asociación Deportivo Cali, best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful football t ...

and among the top five all-time goal-scorers in the

Fútbol Profesional Colombiano Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the ga ...

Career

Born in

Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...

, Gallego began his professional football career with Millonarios in 1962, where he would win three league titles. He had a brief spell with

Deportes Quindío Deportes Quindío is a Colombian professional football club based in Armenia that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. The club was founded on 8 January 1951, and its best achievement was winning the 1956 league tournament. They play thei ...

before moving to Deportivo Cali in 1965 where he scored 168 goals in nine seasons. He finished his playing career with

Deportes Tolima Club Deportes Tolima S.A., commonly known as Deportes Tolima, or simply as Tolima, is a Colombian professional football club based in Ibagué, Tolima Department, that competes in the Categoría Primera A. Founded in 1954, the club has won the C ...

in 1975. Gallego made 14 appearances and scored four goals for the

Colombia national football team The Colombia national football team (), nicknamed ''Los Cafeteros,'' represents Colombia in men's international Association football, football and is managed by the Colombian Football Federation, Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (), the govern ...

from 1966 to 1970.

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* 1940 births Living people Colombian men's footballers Colombia men's international footballers Categoría Primera A players Millonarios F.C. players Deportes Quindío footballers Deportivo Cali footballers Deportes Tolima footballers Men's association football forwards Footballers from Cali 20th-century Colombian sportsmen {{Colombia-footy-forward-stub