More than two decades have passed, but the controversy continues to occupy space in the media with Ramón Ramírez's six-month period in America in the Summer 1999 tournament and within those versions, he revealed in the “Extra Time” program of the newspaper La Opinión that he never sympathized with the colors of the Eagles.

I would have liked it had never happened. With that I say everything; I am Chivas 100 percent, I respect a lot for America and I cannot talk much about America or, at least, with the authority, because I was only six months.

I can talk about Chivas because I spent more than ten years in that institution, because I was champion. I believe that the two hobbies are demanding, they are winning, each one n their style and with their way or their successful policies, but, well, what can I tell you? I respect Chivas, sorry, respect America and I love and love Chivas

Why did you go to America then? 

Well, I don't even know it myself. The rumor, the general clamor, is that Luis Garcia and Ricardo Peláez had come to America and that Chivas owed Televisa and that they had to be paid in some way.  At those moments I think don Salvador Martínez Garza and Chivas had some financial losses, some economic issues and well, well this what.  I think that, as they say there, 

America was charged like that, right? 

With some players. They talk a lot about the Ramón Ramírez case, but almost at the same time, the worm Naples and Joel the shark Sánchez, were also right? But obviously, well I… didn't want to go to America, that respected him a lot, but I felt fully identified with Chivas.  And I think people understood or at least understand my honesty. After I say, with everything and that, the people of America accepted it that way. 

With all the respect you have for America and your love for Chivas, didn't you like playing in America? 

It's just that, look, I didn't like having moved from Chivas to America, and of course, and I've always said it in many of the interviews. tas, all of us children grew up sympathizing with some team, I'm not saying hating another, I don't know, but I imagine yes. 

You question Cuauhtémoc Blanco, for example, who is a reference to America, or Isaac Terrazas, who are very good friends mine, and you tell them about the Chivas t-shirt, because they are going to tell that they never grew sympathizing with those colors. 

I say it openly too. I have never sympathized with America since I was a child. It was never… Well, a team that I had a certain affection for, right? As if I had it for Chivas, as if I had it for the Blue Cross of the Seventies, for the Pumas of Cabinho, or that is, yes, I had some memories of the Chivas champions of the eighty-seventh. 

And what team did you go to as a child? 

I grew up going mainly to those three teams.  I sympathized a lot with those three teams. With Chivas, with Cruz Azul and with Pumas in each generation. But when I saw the title that Chivas won here in 1900 87 , I from there fell in love with Chivas. 

The team of Alberto Guerra, of Yayo de la Torre, of Chepo, of Benjamín Galindo, of Demetrio Madero, of l Sheriff Quirarte, of Lugo, of “Pelón” Gutiérrez, I know everyone; I'm telling you, I remember very well everyone. 

Do you also have to love Santos Laguna? 

Of course, of course. 

Why did you go to America, 

I never wanted to go to America, but I don't know who made the decision; I imagine it, but I don't know who it was.