A tributo to Adolfo Ramirez It was a truly emotional evening After nearly 50 years, a group of football teammates from the early 1970s finally met up again to honour their manager, and thank him for the positive influence he’d had on them during their formative years Text by Stephen Neish
AS I WROTE IN A RECENT article for the Gibraltar Chronicle, Adolfo Ramirez is a man who’s lived and breathed football all his life. From his early days as a player
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with Catalan Bay-based Shamrock FC and then Gibraltar United to his stint as GFA Manager between 1993 and 1997, during which he gloriously steered Gibraltar to
silver medal success at the Gibraltar Sunshine Island Games in 1995. He gave his beloved game his all. When he finally hung up his boots
(not before acquiring a sackful of cups, trophies and medals) he went into management and took over the reins of a fledgling junior team called Rovers United. I
