Ramón Pérez (footballer)

Ramón Pérez
Personal information
Full name	Ramón Osvaldo Pérez Araya
Date of birth	June 28, 1963 (age 61)
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Unión Española
Senior career*
Years	Team
1982–1986	Unión Española
1987	Everton
1988–1989	Palestino
1989–1992	AC Bellinzona
1991–1992	→ FC Baden (loan)
1992–1993	Cobreloa
1994	Palestino
1995	Deportes Concepción
1996	Deportes Linares
1997	Magallanes
International career
1988–1989	Chile
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ramón Osvaldo Pérez Araya (born 28 June 1963) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Chile and Switzerland.^[1]

Club career

A product of Unión Española youth system,^[2] Pérez also played for Everton,^[3] Palestino,^[4] Cobreloa, with whom he won the league title in 1992,^[5] Deportes Concepción,^[6] Deportes Linares^[7] and Magallanes in his homeland.

Abroad, he played in Switzerland for both AC Bellinzona and FC Baden (loan).^[1] In FC Baden, he coincided with his compatriots Eduardo Soto and Claudio Álvarez.^[8]

Pérez made four appearances for the Chile senior team from 1988 to 1989.^[9]

He is better known by his nickname Peraca.^[9]

He has worked as a taxi driver.^[10]

In 2018, he involved in a quarrel in the Club Hípico de Santiago and got shot in the right leg while he tried to help a cousin.^[10]

^ ^a ^b "Ramón Pérez". livefutbol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "Club Deportivo UNIÓN ESPAÑOLA". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 23 August 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "Everton - Campeonato Nacional 1987". www.solofutbol.cl. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
^ "Jugadores Destacados". Palestino Histórico (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ Mardones, Fabián (8 February 2021). "La última estación de Arturo Fernández Vial en Primera". Asifuch (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "Concepcion 1995 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "DEPORTES LINARES" (PDF). Anuario 2020 del Fútbol Chileno (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: ASIFUCH: 103. 19 June 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "BRÊVES Des Chiliens à Baden" (PDF). L'Impartial (in French). 34785. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland: 10. 1 July 1991. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Ramón Pérez". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Ex jugador de Cobreloa recibió un balazo en su pierna al intentar separar una pelea". SoyChile (in Spanish). 5 February 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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