Hamilton Ricard
Encyclopedia
Hámilton Ricard Cuesta (born January 12, 1974 in Quibdó
) is a Colombian
footballer who plays for Colombian
team Deportes Quindío
as a striker, and has played for Deportivo Cali
, Middlesbrough
, CSKA Sofia, Independiente
, Emelec
, Shonan Bellmare
, APOEL, Numancia
, Danubio
and Concepción
over the course of his career.
for a fee of £2million in 1998, and scored 33 goals in 92 starts (with 23 substitute appearances) over a four-year Middlesbrough career. He was twice Middlesbrough's top scorer. When Steve McClaren
took over the reins, Ricard was deemed surplus to requirements and allowed to move to CSKA Sofia on a free transfer.
Since leaving Middlesbrough, Ricard courted controversy both on and off the pitch. In 2002, he was involved in a car accident that killed a passenger, and was banned from football for twelve months for attacking a referee and making obscene gestures to the crowd while playing for Guayaquil side Emelec. The ban was reduced on appeal, and since then, Ricard attempted to move back to Europe to rejuvenate his career. He briefly played in Cyprus
for , before signing a year's deal with Numancia for the 2005-2006 season. He played 16 times, scoring 2 goals.
After he moved to Danubio F.C in Uruguay where he scored 12 goals and played a key role helping Danubio to win the Uruguayan 2006/07 season. In June 2007 he tried with Chinese Superleague team Shanghai Shenhua
, subsequently signing a contract with the Chinese club.
Ricard has represented Colombia
27 times, scoring 5 goals.
On January 24, 2007, Ricard was sentenced by a Columbian court to three years in prison for the 2002 car incident. His lawyers have indicated an appeal is likely. He has not yet served the sentence.
|1993||rowspan="5"|Deportivo Cali
||rowspan="5"|Primera A||15||5
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|1994||46||17
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|1995||||
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|1996||||
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|1997||||
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|1997/98||rowspan="5"|Middlesbrough
||First Division
||9||2
|-
|1998/99||rowspan="4"|Premier League||36||15
|-
|1999/00||34||12
|-
|2000/01||27||4
|-
|2001/02||9||0
|-
|2001/02||CSKA Sofia
||A PFG
||9||1
|-
|2002||Independiente Santa Fé
||Primera A||0||0
|-
|2003||Shonan Bellmare
||J. League 2
||12||2
|-
|2003||Cortuluá
||Primera A||3||0
|-
|2004||Emelec
||Serie A||25||17
|-
|2004/05||APOEL||First Division
||15||6
|-
|2005||Deportivo Cali
||Primera A||6||0
|-
|2005/06||Numancia
||Segunda División
||16||2
|-
|2006/07||Danubio
||Primera División||25||11
|-
|2007||rowspan="2"|Shanghai Shenhua||rowspan="2"|Super League
||15||5
|-
|2008||27||9
|-
|2009/10||Danubio
||Primera División||10||3
70||22
115||33
9||1
12||2
25||17
15||6
16||2
35||14
27||9
324||106
|}
|1995||3||1
|-
|1996||1||0
|-
|1997||13||3
|-
|1998||2||0
|-
|1999||6||1
|-
|2000||2||0
|-
!Total||27||5
|}
Quibdó
Quibdó is the capital city of Chocó Department, in western Colombia. The municipality of Quibdó has an area of 3,337.5 km² and a population of 100,000 mainly consisting of Afro Colombians and Zambo Colombians. Quibdo serves a a receptor for those persons affected by the Colombian armed...
) is a Colombian
Colombian people
Colombian people are from a multiethnic Spanish speaking nation in South America called Colombia. Colombians are predominantly Roman Catholic and are a mixture of Europeans, Africans, and Amerindians.-Demography:...
footballer who plays for Colombian
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
team Deportes Quindío
Deportes Quindío
Deportes Quindío, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Armenia. The club was founded January 8, 1951 and play their home games at the Centenario de Armenia stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 29,000.-National Honours:...
as a striker, and has played for Deportivo Cali
Deportivo Cali
Asociación Deportivo Cali is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, Colombia. Mostly known for its football team, it also sponsors basketball, volleyball and swimming...
, Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
, CSKA Sofia, Independiente
Club Atlético Independiente
Club Atlético Independiente is an Argentine athletic, sports and social club, which has its headquarters and stadium in the city of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province. The club is best known for its football team, that plays in the Argentine Primera División....
, Emelec
Club Sport Emelec
Club Sport Emelec is a Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional football team. The football team plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of professional football in the country....
, Shonan Bellmare
Shonan Bellmare
are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka. The name Bellmare is derived from the Latin "bellum" for "war" and "mare"...
, APOEL, Numancia
CD Numancia
Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 April 1945, it plays in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos, with a 10,200-seat capacity.Besides football it has other...
, Danubio
Danubio F.C.
-History:Danubio was founded by the Bulgarian born brothers, Miguel and Juan Lazaroff, on March 1, 1932 together with other youths from the "Republica de Nicaragua" school in Montevideo...
and Concepción
Club de Deportes Concepción
Club Deportes Concepción, is a Chilean football club based in the city of Concepción.The club was founded on February 29, 1966 by the orgia of several amateur clubs such as Galvarino, Liverpool, Juvenil Unido, Santa Fe and Club Lord Cochrane. The club is one of the most popular in the VIII region...
over the course of his career.
Career
Ricard was signed by Bryan RobsonBryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBE is an English football manager and a former player. He is best known for playing in midfield for Manchester United, where he was the longest serving captain in club history. He was the manager of Sheffield United, being relieved of his first team duties at the club in February 2008...
for a fee of £2million in 1998, and scored 33 goals in 92 starts (with 23 substitute appearances) over a four-year Middlesbrough career. He was twice Middlesbrough's top scorer. When Steve McClaren
Steve McClaren
Stephen "Steve" McClaren is an English football manager and former player.McClaren was previously manager of VfL Wolfsburg in Germany between May 2010 and February 2011, having left his post at Dutch side FC Twente, with whom he won the club's first Eredivisie championship in the 2009–10 season...
took over the reins, Ricard was deemed surplus to requirements and allowed to move to CSKA Sofia on a free transfer.
Since leaving Middlesbrough, Ricard courted controversy both on and off the pitch. In 2002, he was involved in a car accident that killed a passenger, and was banned from football for twelve months for attacking a referee and making obscene gestures to the crowd while playing for Guayaquil side Emelec. The ban was reduced on appeal, and since then, Ricard attempted to move back to Europe to rejuvenate his career. He briefly played in Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
for , before signing a year's deal with Numancia for the 2005-2006 season. He played 16 times, scoring 2 goals.
After he moved to Danubio F.C in Uruguay where he scored 12 goals and played a key role helping Danubio to win the Uruguayan 2006/07 season. In June 2007 he tried with Chinese Superleague team Shanghai Shenhua
Shanghai Shenhua
Shanghai Shenhua is a professional Chinese football club currently playing in Chinese Super League. The club is currently owned by Zhu Jun , Shanghai SVA Group, SMEG and Huangpu Investment Ltd. . The current head coach is Dražen Besek...
, subsequently signing a contract with the Chinese club.
Ricard has represented Colombia
Colombia national football team
The Colombian national football team represents Colombia in international football competitions and is controlled by the Colombian Football Federation. It is a member of the CONMEBOL...
27 times, scoring 5 goals.
On January 24, 2007, Ricard was sentenced by a Columbian court to three years in prison for the 2002 car incident. His lawyers have indicated an appeal is likely. He has not yet served the sentence.
Club statistics
|-|1993||rowspan="5"|Deportivo Cali
Deportivo Cali
Asociación Deportivo Cali is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, Colombia. Mostly known for its football team, it also sponsors basketball, volleyball and swimming...
||rowspan="5"|Primera A||15||5
|-
|1994||46||17
|-
|1995||||
|-
|1996||||
|-
|1997||||
|-
|1997/98||rowspan="5"|Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
||First Division
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
||9||2
|-
|1998/99||rowspan="4"|Premier League||36||15
|-
|1999/00||34||12
|-
|2000/01||27||4
|-
|2001/02||9||0
|-
|2001/02||CSKA Sofia
PFC CSKA Sofia
PFC CSKA Sofia , commonly known as CSKA or CSKA Sofia is a professional football club based in Sofia, Bulgaria. The club was officially founded on May 5, 1948. CSKA's abbreviation stands for Central Sports Club of the Army...
||A PFG
Bulgarian A Professional Football Group
The Bulgarian A Professional Football Group commonly known as A PFG is the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The league is sponsored by Victoria FATA Insurance and therefore is officially known as Victoria A Football Group since 2011...
||9||1
|-
|2002||Independiente Santa Fé
Independiente Santa Fe
Independiente Santafe is a professional Colombian First Division football club based in Bogotá. It has won six First Division titles and two Copa Colombia titles....
||Primera A||0||0
|-
|2003||Shonan Bellmare
Shonan Bellmare
are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka. The name Bellmare is derived from the Latin "bellum" for "war" and "mare"...
||J. League 2
J. League Division 2
The or is the second division of and is the second-tier professional association football league in Japan. Currently, J. League Division 2 is the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The first tier is represented by J...
||12||2
|-
|2003||Cortuluá
Cortuluá
Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá, is a Colombian football club based in the city of Tuluá. The club was founded October 16, 1967 and plays its home games at the Doce de Octubre stadium, which has a capacity of approximately 16,000 seats.-History:...
||Primera A||3||0
|-
|2004||Emelec
Club Sport Emelec
Club Sport Emelec is a Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional football team. The football team plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of professional football in the country....
||Serie A||25||17
|-
|2004/05||APOEL||First Division
Cypriot First Division
The Cypriot Championship First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus. As of 2007 it is sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank and is hence officially known as Marfin Laiki League .-Format:...
||15||6
|-
|2005||Deportivo Cali
Deportivo Cali
Asociación Deportivo Cali is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, Colombia. Mostly known for its football team, it also sponsors basketball, volleyball and swimming...
||Primera A||6||0
|-
|2005/06||Numancia
CD Numancia
Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 April 1945, it plays in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos, with a 10,200-seat capacity.Besides football it has other...
||Segunda División
Segunda División
The Segunda División is the lower tier of the two professional football leagues in Spain. From the season 2008-09 onwards, the name of the league is Liga Adelante.-History:...
||16||2
|-
|2006/07||Danubio
Danubio F.C.
-History:Danubio was founded by the Bulgarian born brothers, Miguel and Juan Lazaroff, on March 1, 1932 together with other youths from the "Republica de Nicaragua" school in Montevideo...
||Primera División||25||11
|-
|2007||rowspan="2"|Shanghai Shenhua||rowspan="2"|Super League
Chinese Super League
The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...
||15||5
|-
|2008||27||9
|-
|2009/10||Danubio
Danubio F.C.
-History:Danubio was founded by the Bulgarian born brothers, Miguel and Juan Lazaroff, on March 1, 1932 together with other youths from the "Republica de Nicaragua" school in Montevideo...
||Primera División||10||3
70||22
115||33
9||1
12||2
25||17
15||6
16||2
35||14
27||9
324||106
|}
International career statistics
|-|1995||3||1
|-
|1996||1||0
|-
|1997||13||3
|-
|1998||2||0
|-
|1999||6||1
|-
|2000||2||0
|-
!Total||27||5
|}