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INTERESTING FACTS
| Record number of victories with Levante UD during the season 94/95. |
 As Team Manager at Levante UD during the 94/95 season, he achieved 13 consecutive league wins. The team was in Group 3 of second division B, and when they tried to equal the record number of wins that Real Madrid had achieved since the 1960/61 season, a draw against Girona CF on 4th December broke their winning streak. |
| He led Rayo Vallecano to qualify for UEFA, thanks to the Fair Play rating. |
The 1999/00 season, after finishing the league in a good position, Rayo Vallecano was able to participate in the UEFA Cup in the season 2000/01 as the FAIR PLAY team (team with least number of red and yellow cards during the season 99/00)
Rayo was eliminated in the UEFA quarter finals after beating Constellació Esportiva (0-10, 6-0), Molde FK (0-1, 1-1), Viborg FF (1-0, 2-1), FK Lokomotiv Moskva (0-0, 2-0) and Girondins de Bordeaux (4-1, 1-2). They were eliminated by Deportivo Alavés (3-0, 2-1) the team which was to finish as Runner-Up for the trophy that year. |
| Record number of wins with Sevilla F.C. |
After winning the Copa del Rey in June 2007, Sevilla C.F. equalled the record number of official matches won by a team in a single season in the history of national football, by achieving 39 victories. They thus equalled F.C.Barcelona, who reached the same figure in the 1996/97 season when the navy blue and maroon team became UEFA Cup Champion, European Super Cup Champions and Spanish Super cup Champions. |
| Victim of an attack during a Cup game. |
 The Team Manager Juande Ramos was hit on the head by a bottle during the return game of the quarter finals of the Copa del Rey on 28th March 2007, which took place in the Ruiz de Lopera stadium, between Real Betis Balompié and Sevilla F.C.
After the French player Frederic Kanouté scored 0-1 in the 57th minute, a bottle was thrown from the grandstand and hit the Seville Manager on the back of the head, causing him to fall unconscious on the pitch. He was taken to hospital in Seville where he was treated for severe head injuries, and had to stay in overnight for observation. |
| IN 120 DAYS JUANDE WON A TITLE WITH TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR |
 Few beginnings have been as revolutionary as Juande Ramos’ arrival on the bench at White Hart Lane. In only three months as Spurs Head Coach Juande led Tottenham to the Carling Cup Final where they won the Title after ten years (the last time they were Carling Cup winners was in 1998/99).
The Spanish Coach became a hero in a football culture in which he had adapted his own football ideals in order to make them Champions in 120 days. Tottenham beat Chelsea in the Final on 24th February 2008 at Wembley Stadium after turning around the initial 0-1. In extra-time Spurs won the Cup with 2-1 as the final result. |
| Pedro Múñoz football pitch. Opened March 07. |
 On 24th March 2007 Juande Ramos received a tribute in his birth place, Pedro Muñoz (Ciudad Real). The local stadium was named after him: “Estadio Juande Ramos”. |
| Sevilla F.C.: the first club to be leader for 12 consecutive months in the IFFHS ranking. |
In August 2007, Sevilla F.C. became the first club to remain at the top of the world club ranking for a whole year, awarded by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). Sevilla F.C. led by Juande Ramos beat the record held by Rome, when in 1991 they were top of the IFFHS ranking for 11 months. |
| JUANDE IMAGE FOR VIDEO GAME |
 In 2008 the image of Juande Ramos was used for the FOOTBALL MANAGER 2008 video game. Juande was the first Coach to offer his image to the Spanish version of FOOTBALL MAANGER.
The producers of the game, which is based on general managing and football management, decided to use Juande because “he personifies the attributes and values of an international quality product” , according to Eduardo Lopez, Senior Product Manager of Sega. |
| MANAGER WITH THE SECOND MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS IN REAL MADRID’S HISTORY |
 During the 2008/09 season Juande Ramos linked ten straight wins in La Liga, a record in Madrid’s history which has only been beaten by Miguel Muñoz. Juande’s first League game as manager for Real Madrid was on 14TH December, when they were defeated by Barcelona at Nou Camp. After that, Juande’s team went on to win ten consecutive league matches: at the Bernabeu the beat Valencia, Villarreal, Osasuna, Deportivo, Racing Santander and Betis. Away from home the Whites beat Mallorca, Numancia, Sporting Gijon and Espanyol.
Juande’s ten victories exceed the nine achieved by Luis Molowny in 1985/86 and he is only one short of beating Miguel Muñoz’s record; the latter achieved eleven straight victories in 1962/63 and a staggering fifteen wins in 1960/61.
The draw in the derby between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid ended the winning streak for Juande but positions him as the manager with the second most consecutive victories at Real Madrid. |
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