Pros

Revs give trial to Peruvian forward By Andrew Hush
February 15, 2007


Soccer New England has learned that the Revolution have invited Jorge Eduardo Ramirez Tabacchi, a Peruvian forward who is more commonly known as Jorge Ramirez, to their pre-season training camp in Bermuda, for which the side leave on Friday morning.

Jorge Ramirez

Commenting on Ramirez on Thursday morning, Steve Nicol said that the player had contacted the Revs, who had agreed to give him a trial.

"His was one of many CVs that we get from here, there and everywhere," said Nicol. "We’ll take him and have a look, that’s it."

Ramirez, whose nickname is the rather intriguing ‘Loverita’, is 31-years-old and is understood to be a free agent. He is a former Peruvina international, who played in his country's qualifying campaigns for the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.

Ramirez previously played in his home country for Deportivo Wanka, for whom he scored 21 goals in the Primera División in 2001, Alianza Lima and Sporting Cristal.

Ramirez has also played in Europe, for Greek side, Skoda Xanthi and, most recently, for a four-month spell with Olympiakos Nicosia in Cyprus. According to an interview he gave in May 2006, Ramirez’s latest time in Europe was an unhappy one, with financial problems causing Nicosia to withhold his salary, leading to his return to Peru last summer.