July 8, 2005. Historic date in the yellow entity. After the Extraordinary General Meeting chaired by Judge Juan José Cobo Plana, which took place in the main hall of Salesianos School, Miguel Ángel Ramírez Alonso became the new president of UD Las Palmas. After a difficult time, with the judicial intervention of the "yellow" team, the time of the bankruptcy administrators who threatened to disappear forever the club born on August 22, 1949 thanks to the merger of 5 historic teams.
The indisputable figure of Miguel Ángel Ramírez was instrumental in persuading the Canarian society to save UD Las Palmas and shoulder the debt of 72 million euros, which was the beginning of exemplary management that continues today. In the fourteen consecutive years, just one season away to equalize Juan Trujillo Febles, Miguel Angel Ramirez reached the number of 600 matches as head of the club. A president who over the years has been trying to uphold economic transparency as a standard, to focus on new native talents and to socialize the club with faithful followers.
His first board of directors was Nicolás Ortega, Vice President, Antonio de Armas, Felix Noda, Lino Chaparro, Mario Ghosen, Domingo Gutiérrez and Félix Noda as advisers. On the sporting level, his first coach was Josip Visnjinc and his first technical secretary Juanito Rodríguez. In his first season as president, he reached after rank 3 (2nd Division B) promotion to the silver category, after the victory against Linares. In a game of Copa del Rey against the University of Las Palmas (0-0) began his steep career, which today reaches the 600 games with the Martínez Valero Stadium in Elche.
Presidents in the history of the club
Miguel Ángel Ramírez is at the top of the list of presidents in the history of the club in the last 69 years with 600 official games in 14 seasons. He is followed by Juan Trujllo Febles (1959-1974): 534; Atilio Ley (1974-1982): 332; Domingo Ponce (1984-1988): 184; Eufemiano Fuentes (1950-1955 and 1959): 136; Manuel García Navarro: (199-2001 / 2003-2005): 136; Luis Sicilia (1992-1994 / 2001-2002): 135; Gonzalo Medina: (1989-1992): 130; José de Aguilar: (1982-1984): 104; Fernando Arencibia: (1988-1989 / 1994-1995 / and 199): 92; Adrián Déniz: (1995-1997): 90; Luis Navarro Carló (1955-1957): 64; Germán Suárez: (1997-1998): 56; José del Río Amor: (1949-1950): 54; Angel Luis Tadeo: (1998-199): 50; Luis González: (2002-2003): 38; Ramón Naranjo Hermosilla: (1957-1958): 34; Cecilio López: (1958-1959): 33; Luis Cabrera (Bankruptcy Administration), 12 July 2005): 20, Ricardo Ríos: (2003): 18.
His coaches
For the last 14 years, Miguel Ángel Ramírez has hired 16 coaches: Josip Visnjic and Juanito Rodríguez (2005/2006), Sánchez Aguiar and Juanito Rodríguez (2006/2007), Juanito Rodríguez Juan Manuel Rodríguez (2007/2008), Juan Manuel Rodríguez , Javier Vidales and Paco Castellano (2008/2009), Sergio Kresic and Paco Jémez (2009/2010), Paco Jémez and Juan Manuel Rodríguez (2010/2011), Juan Manuel Rodríguez (2011/2012), Sergio Lobera (2012/2013 ), Sergio Lobera and Josico (2013/2014), Paco Herrera (2014/2015), Paco Herrera and Quique Setién (2015/2016), Quique Setién (2016/2017), Manolo Márquez, Pako Ayestarán, Paquito Ortíz and Paco Jémez (2017/2018) and Manolo Jiménez (2018/2019).
The sport and economic management of Ramírez has meant that world-class players like Juan Carlos Valerón, Prince Boateng, Vitolo and Jesé wore the yellow jersey. Not to forget the important transfers of players like Salomón Rondón (Málaga CF), Jonathan Viera (Valencia and Beijing), Vitolo (Sevilla CF) and Roque Mesa (Swansea City) contributed to the rehabilitation and stabilization of the club economy.
The promotion to the First Division in the season 2014/2015 was the most important sporting success. The team finished fourth in the regular season. In the promotion action Las Palmas defeated Real Valladolid and in the grand final on 21 June 2015 Real Zaragoza defeated (2-0) -3-1 in the first leg. After three years in the First Division and an unexpected descent, Miguel Angel Ramirez hopes to return to the top class with another sports project that has its mark.
Congratulations, President!
