Muricy Ramalho

Muricy Ramalho is a Brazilian coach and former football player. He was born on 30 November 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Muricy started his professional playing career as an attacking midfielder at a hometown top club São Paulo in 1973. For a six-year stint at the club, he scored 26 goals in 177 games but still has not announced himself to Brazilian football. In between 1979 and 1985, Ramalho played for the Mexican side Puebla amassing 57 goals in 149 league appearances for the period.

Ramalho embarked on his coaching career at his former clubs Puebla and São Paulo. After the spell in these clubs in between 1993 and 1996, he coached a myriad of clubs, Brazilian for the most part, up to the present days. Thus, he was at the helm of Guarani, Ituano, Botafogo FC, Portuguesa Santista, Náutico, Figueirense, Internacional, São Caetano, Palmeiras and Fluminense. The longest and the most successful period for Ramalho came when he was at the charge of São Paulo for three years from 2006 to 2009. It was to his immense credit that the club won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A three years in a row. Ramalho recorded another Brazilian championship win in 2010 with a prominent club Fluminense.

Since April 2011 to March 2013 season, Muricy Ramalho was at the helm of top-flight side Santos. He pulled off the first season with the club with the Copa Libertadores and Campeonato Paulista victories. In 2012, Santos became the Recopa Sudamericana champion.

In September 2013 Ramalho was appointed the manager of Sao Paulo.