With his 12 selections, Ulrich Ramé has not left a big mark in the history of the France team. But he was often called up after the 1998 World Cup. In 2000, he was part of the Blues list for the Euro, as third goalkeeper behind Fabien Barthez and Bernard Lama. What has happened to him since the end of his playing career in 2013 with Sedan?
Ephemeral coach in 2016 of the Girondins de Bordeaux, a club where he played from 1997 to 2011 with 525 matches under his belt, the ex-international goalkeeper in fact completely disappeared from the radar after his experience as manager of the PSG women’s team, which he left in 2022 due to a
“fact of life”as he explains to the newspaper
The Teamwho found his trace.
Ulrich Ramé with Frank Leboeuf and Youri Djorkaeff after the Euro 2000 final won by the Blues.
“ I realized that I had deprived myself for more than thirty years of many things and people that I lovedhe confides. I wanted to take advantage of them and also do something that had meaning for me, in an activity that appealed to me professionally and socially. » Aged 53, he is now an interior designer and shareholder in an agency launched by one of his friends.
Ulrich Ramé has great pencil skills!
“As a kid, I lived in the countryside. There was almost only football and drawing. I was already scribbling with this ease for the volumes, explains the former FCGB legend. I also reproduced a lot of objects. My dad was a building economist with his own company in Challans. So I began, not my reconversion, but what I see more as a transfer. »
Ulrich Ramé won two French championship titles with Bordeaux, in 1999 and 2009.
Holder of an interior designer diploma, which he validated in 2024 at the National Building School, Ulrich Ramé acquired a 25% stake in the company David Dalidec & Associés. To the greatest pleasure of his partner. “He found his place on his ownsays this close friend of the double French champion. He repositioned the agency naturally with his fresh eye. »
“He brought us his experience in sport with ultra-square development and other management methodshe continues. He has a very gentle vision in his pencil stroke. His expertise in the sports sector is a plus for us. We make full use of our experience to open up to other areas. » A surprising but successful reconversion, therefore.
