The first trophy of Sandro Ramírez Castillo's professional career was the 2014-15 La Liga title, won with FC Barcelona in the season he made his top-flight debut. Born on 9 July 1995 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the forward came through Barcelona's academy, spent time in the Premier League, played for seven Spanish top-flight clubs and has been with UD Las Palmas since 2022.
Early years and academy
He started playing at the age of four with Barrio Atlántico, a club in his home city, where he stayed from 1999 to 2002. That year he moved into UD Las Palmas's youth teams and remained there until 2009. At 14 he left for FC Barcelona and followed the usual academy path: the cadet sides, Juvenil B and then Juvenil A. In 2013 he won the División de Honor Juvenil with Juvenil A. That summer he also played for Spain at the Under-19 European Championship. Spain lost the semi-final 2-1 to France after extra time and missed out on the final.
From Barcelona B to the first team
He made his Barcelona B debut in the Spanish second division on 17 August 2013, coming on in the 66th minute of a 2-1 defeat away to Mirandés. In two seasons with the reserve team he played 61 league games and scored 15 goals. His La Liga debut came on 31 August 2014 at El Madrigal, where he came off the bench and scored the only goal of the game against Villarreal. Across 2014-15 and 2015-16 he made 17 league appearances for the first team and scored twice. He was part of the squad that won two La Liga titles and two Copas del Rey (2015 and 2016), the 2015 Champions League, the 2015 UEFA Super Cup and the 2015 Club World Cup.
Málaga and the move to England
He left Barcelona for Málaga in July 2016. In his only season at La Rosaleda he played 30 league games and scored 14 goals, his best return in the Spanish top flight. On 3 July 2017 he signed for Everton. His Premier League debut came on 12 August 2017 in a 1-0 home win over Stoke City at Goodison Park, but he never settled in England and made eight league appearances without scoring.
Loans in Spain
In January 2018 Everton loaned him to Sevilla, where he made 13 league appearances. In August 2018 he joined Real Sociedad on loan and went 24 games without a goal. He spent 2019-20 at Real Valladolid, playing 24 league games and scoring three times. In October 2020 he left the English club and joined Huesca on a free transfer. He scored five goals in 20 top-flight games in 2020-21, the season the Aragonese club went down. Huesca then loaned him to Getafe for 2021-22, where he played 29 league games and scored three goals.
Back in Las Palmas
On 22 August 2022 he returned on loan to his home-city club, then in the Spanish second division. The deal included a purchase option that became mandatory if the team went up. He scored seven goals in 21 league games, four of them in the closing weeks, and was named the division's player of the month for May. Las Palmas finished second and won promotion to La Liga in 2023, and the club completed his signing that June. At the start of the 2023-24 season he matched Carlos Aranda's record for the most Spanish top-flight clubs represented: eight (Barcelona, Málaga, Sevilla, Real Sociedad, Valladolid, Huesca, Getafe and Las Palmas). He scored once in 27 games that season. In 2024-25 he scored nine goals in 31 league games, but Las Palmas finished second from bottom and were relegated.
International career
He played for Spain at every youth level. He scored five goals in six games for the Under-16s in 2011, then nine goals in four matches for the Under-17s between 2011 and 2012. He went on to play for the Under-18s and the Under-19s, scoring four goals in seven appearances for the latter between 2013 and 2014. For the Under-21s he made seven appearances between 2014 and 2017 and scored once. That goal came at the 2017 European Under-21 Championship, in a 3-1 group-stage win over Portugal, and Spain finished as runners-up. He never made his debut for the senior Spain national team.
Playing style
He can play as a centre-forward or drift out to a flank, especially the left. He likes to drop between the lines and link up with the midfielders. His most prolific campaign, with Málaga in 2016-17, came as a mobile striker in a side that fed him the ball close to goal.
Injury and the 2025-26 season
He struggled with problems in his right knee at the end of the 2024-25 season and had surgery in July 2025. The injury kept him out of almost all of Las Palmas's 2025-26 campaign in the Spanish second division, in which he played only three league games.
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