Chucho Ramírez: “FC Porto? It’d be a good fit for me” | OneFootball

There is a real “Chucho-dependence”: Chucho Ramírez, a 27-year-old striker, has already scored 16 goals this season, 15 of them in Portugal’s top flight, almost half of Nacional’s 32 goals, after playing 29 matches and racking up 2,532 minutes. In his first spell at the club, the forward had scored 20 goals in 39 matches, 17 of them in the Second League, and with four rounds left in this campaign, the Venezuelan international can still reach his best personal tally at Choupana.

Despite having decided yet another match for his team against Alverca, the forward remains humble and does not take all the credit for himself. “Never in my life will I feel that I am the most important player on the team. I will never take on that role. I am very happy and I believe strongly in God, so I am very grateful for what He is doing with me, for my career and the things that happen in matches. But I will never take the glory alone, because it has been the work of everyone at Nacional,” said the black-and-white striker, adding that “the joy has returned to the dressing room.” His call-up to his national team also had an impact: “For me it was very important. I recharged my batteries and I think that, since then, the energy in the dressing room has changed a lot and we are now managing to get positive results.”

A successful gamble

After an unhappy season in Guimarães, Ramírez returned to Madeira and rediscovered his eye for goal. “Coming to Nacional was a successful gamble. I owe a lot to the club, because they took a chance on me and believed in me. I also owe a lot to the coach because, honestly, he gives me a lot of confidence. I even went through a difficult spell this season, with six games without scoring, but I always felt the coach’s confidence, and that is very important,” he explained. Keeping Tiago Margarido at Choupana would therefore be the ideal solution — if the coach stays — or even the possibility of following him elsewhere: “I would like to keep working with him, but I don’t know what the future will bring. We’ll see what happens.”

The player does not hide his ambition to move up a level and, when faced with the possibility of FC Porto — a club he has no doubt “will be champions” — he smiled and replied like this: “Clearly FC Porto would be a good team and a good club for me. I have a dream of playing for a big club, but I remain calm, I have my family, I have two children and now I’m going to have a baby girl, and I want the best for them too,” he revealed. The forward acknowledges that “this season can open the door to a big club for me, but I leave all that in God’s hands. I am calm and I even talk to my wife about it. I’m at a stage in my career where I have learned a lot and I’m fully focused here at Nacional for these four matches that are left. I want to keep helping the team, try to score goals, play well and then, at the end of the season, we’ll see what can happen, because I have another year left on my contract.”

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.