Ramón Calderón

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.José Ramón Calderón Ramos (born 26 May 1951 in Palencia, Spain) is a lawyer, and the ex-President of Spanish sports club Real Madrid. Calderon was elected President of Real Madrid in 2 July 2006, winning the elections with 8,344 votes whilst Juan Palacios was second with 8,098. After discussions with his football director, Predrag Mijatovic, Calderon hired Fabio Capello as club manager, after initially considering Bernd Schuster, the manager of Getafe. Amongst his promises when running for election was the signing of Arjen Robben from Chelsea, Cesc Fàbregas from Arsenal and Kaká from AC Milan. Calderón fended off allegations of making illegal approach from the clubs in question. He was only successful with Robben.