Ramón Gil | |
Fullname: | Ramón Gil Sequeiros |
Birth Date: | 16 August 1897 |
Birth Place: | A Coruña, Galicia, Spain |
Position: | Forward |
Years1: | 1914–1917 |
Years2: | 1917–1918 |
Years3: | 1918–1923 |
Years4: | 1923 |
Years5: | 1924–1931 |
Nationalyears1: | 1920 |
Nationalteam1: | Spain |
Nationalcaps1: | 0 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Nationalyears2: | 1922–1923 |
Nationalteam2: | Galicia |
Nationalgoals2: | 7 |
Medaltemplates: | [1] |
Ramón "Moncho" Gil Sequeiros (16 August 1897 – 18 January 1965) was a Spanish football player who played as a forward.[2] He was a member of the Spain national team that won the silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[3]
Born in Vigo, he began playing football at his hometown club Real Vigo Sporting in 1917, and he helped them win three Galician Championships in 1918-19, 1919-20 and 1922-23. He played for them until 1923, when Sporting was merged with Fortuna de Vigo to form Celta de Vigo. He was then part of the first-ever teams fielded by Celta de Vigo and played for them for four seasons.[4]
He represented the Spain national team at the 1920 Summer Olympics, featuring in two games against Italy and in the Silver/Bronze medal match against the Netherlands which Spain won 3-1.[3]
Being a player of Real Vigo Sporting, he was summoned to play for the Galicia national team, and he was one of the eleven footballers that played in the team's first-ever game on 19 November 1922, a 4-1 win over a Castile/Madrid XI in the quarter-finals of the 1922-23 Prince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF.[5] Moncho Gil helped the team reach the final, where they were beaten 1-3 by Asturias national team, courtesy of a second-half brace from José Luis Zabala.[1]
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