Ramón Fernández (footballer)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Arias.

Ramón Fernández

Fernández with O'Higgins in 2019.
Personal information
Full name	Ramón Ignacio Fernández
Date of birth	(1984-12-03) 3 December 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Formosa, Argentina
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	San Antonio Unido
Youth career
2001–2003	Estudiantes
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003–2011	Estudiantes	6	(1)
2004–2005	→ Sarmiento (loan)	14	(2)
2006–2007	→ Ben Hur (loan)	22	(0)
2007	→ Defensa y Justicia (loan)	12	(0)
2008	→ Atlanta (loan)	39	(6)
2008–2010	→ Rijeka (loan)	50	(7)
2011	→ Unión La Calera (loan)	39	(5)
2012	O'Higgins	38	(12)
2013–2016	Universidad de Chile	64	(8)
2015–2016	→ O'Higgins (loan)	33	(4)
2016–2017	Colo-Colo	28	(4)
2018–2021	O'Higgins	107	(8)
2022	Atlanta	15	(1)
2022–2023	Deportes Iquique	31	(4)
2024–	San Antonio Unido	0	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 January 2024

Ramón Ignacio Fernández Arias (Spanish pronunciation: [raˈmon iɣˈnasjo feɾˈnandes], born 3 December 1984) is an Argentine-Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for San Antonio Unido in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile.

Club career

A product of Estudiantes de la Plata 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 Sarmiento, Club Sportivo Ben Hur, Defensa y Justicia and Club Atlético Atlanta, before being loaned again to the Croatian side NK Rijeka in July 2008.^[1]

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.^[2] 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 Atlanta where he had been a leading figure in 2008.^[1]

In June 2022, he returned to Chile and joined Deportes Iquique in the Primera B.^[3] After getting the promotion to the Chilean Primera División in 2023, he left the club.^[4]

In 2024, he signed with San Antonio Unido in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile.^[5]

Personal life

In January 2017, he acquired the Chilean nationality by residence.^[6]

Honours

Estudiantes

• Torneo de Apertura (1): 2010

Universidad de Chile

• Primera División (1): Apertura 2014
• Copa Chile: 2013

Colo-Colo

• Primera División (1): Transición 2017
• Copa Chile: 2016
• Supercopa de Chile: 2017

References

1. "Ramón Fernández volvió a Atlanta, club donde fue una gran figura" (in Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
2. "Ramon Fernandez Statistika" (in Croatian). 1hnl.hr. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
3. @ClubDIquique (18 June 2022). "¡Bienvenido a la Tierra de Campeones, Ramón Fernández!" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 June 2022 – via Twitter.
4. Lizama, Bastián (23 December 2023). "Ramón Fernández anuncia su salida de Deportes Iquique: "La idea era seguir, pero hay cosas que no dependen de uno"". ADN Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
5. Vera, Pablo (25 January 2024). "San Antonio rompe el mercado chileno con dos figuras de renombre". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
6. "Ramón Fernández consiguió la nacionalidad chilena". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

External links

• Ramón Fernández at BDFA (in Spanish)
• Argentine Primera statistics^[usurped] at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)
• Fernández at Football Lineups
• Ramón Fernández at Soccerway