Miguel Mauricio Ramírez Pérez (born 11 June 1970) is a Chilean

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and former player who played as a defender. He is currently in charge of

Unión Española Club Unión Española S.A.D.P. is a professional football club based in the Independencia neighborhood, commune of Santiago, Chile currently participating in the Primera División de Chile. History Foundation, Amateur Era and First seasons ...

. Ramírez was capped 62 times and scored 1 goal for the Chile national team between 1991 and 2003, including three games at the

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Club career

Ramírez started his career in 1991 with

Colo-Colo Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...

, where he was part of two league championship winning campaigns in 1991 and 1993. During his time with the club, it also won the

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in 1991,

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1991 and

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in 1992. Ramírez played in Spain with

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and in

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with

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before returning to Chile in 1997 to join Universidad Católica. At Universidad Católica, he won a further two league championships. He spent his last years as a professional back at Colo-Colo.

Coaching career

In 2022, Ramírez assumed as the manager of Universidad de Concepción. In 2024, he switched to Deportes Iquique. In June 2025, he was appointed the manager of

for the second half of the year.

Personal life

Ramírez is nicknamed ''Cheíto'', due to his resemblance to the character of the same name portrayed by Manuel Carrillo from the Venezuelan TV series ''Abigail''. The nicknamed was given by his teammate in

, Miguel Vargas. His elder son, Nicolás, is a

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who has worked for ESPN Chile.

Honours

Player

;Colo-Colo *

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(2):

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

(1):

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(1):

;Universidad Católica *

(1): 2002 Apertura

Manager

;Santiago Wanderers * Primera B de Chile (1):

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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Miguel Ramírez
at MemoriaWanderers.cl 1970 births Living people Footballers from Santiago, Chile Men's association football defenders Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chilean football managers Chilean football coaches Chilean Primera División players La Liga players Liga MX players Colo-Colo footballers Real Sociedad footballers C.F. Monterrey players Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Copa Libertadores–winning players Chilean Primera División managers Primera B de Chile managers San Luis de Quillota managers Santiago Wanderers managers O'Higgins F.C. managers C.D. Universidad de Concepción managers Deportes Iquique managers Unión Española managers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico 1998 FIFA World Cup players 1991 Copa América players 1993 Copa América players 1995 Copa América players 1999 Copa América players 2004 Copa América players 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-footy-defender-stub