Ramón Ignacio Fernández Arias (, born 3 December 1984) is an

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-Chilean

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who plays as a

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for

San Marcos de Arica Club Deportivo San Marcos de Arica, also known as San Marcos, is a Chilean professional football club based in Arica, that is a current member of the Primera B of Chile. The club was founded on February 14, 1978. Between 1978 and 2005, the club ...

Club career

A product of

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youth system, Fernández joined its reserve team in January 2003 but spent most of the next five years on loan at several Argentine sides, including

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and

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, before being loaned again to the Croatian side NK Rijeka in July 2008. At Rijeka, he established himself as a first-team regular in his first season with the club and scored one goal in 20 appearances in the 2008–09 season. At the end of the season, the club decided to renew the loan deal into the next season. Therefore, the loan spell ended in July 2010, returning to Estudiantes subsequently. After 10 years playing in the Chilean football, in 2022 he returned to Argentina joining

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where he had been a leading figure in 2008. In June 2022, he returned to Chile and joined

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in the

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. After getting the promotion to the

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in 2023, he left the club. In 2024, Fernández signed with

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in the

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. He ended his contract in July 2025. In July 2025, he switched to

Personal life

In January 2017, Fernández acquired the Chilean nationality by residence.

Honours

;Estudiantes * Torneo de Apertura (1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

;Universidad de Chile * Primera División (1): Apertura 2014 *

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

;Colo-Colo * Primera División (1): Transición 2017 *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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References

External links

* * at Fútbol XXI
Fernández at Football Lineups
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Ramon 1984 births Living people Footballers from Formosa, Argentina Argentine men's footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Naturalized citizens of Chile Chilean men's footballers Estudiantes de La Plata footballers Club Atlético Sarmiento footballers Club Sportivo Ben Hur players Defensa y Justicia footballers Club Atlético Atlanta footballers HNK Rijeka players Unión La Calera footballers O'Higgins F.C. footballers Club Universidad de Chile footballers Colo-Colo footballers Deportes Iquique footballers San Antonio Unido footballers San Marcos de Arica footballers Torneo Argentino B players Argentine Primera División players Primera Nacional players Primera B Metropolitana players Croatian Football League players Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Segunda División Profesional de Chile players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile Expatriate men's footballers in Chile Men's association football midfielders 21st-century Argentine sportsmen