Fernando Varela (Spanish footballer) Fernando Varela (Spanish footballer) Fernando Varela Ramos (born 1 September 1979) is a Spanish retired footballer. Mainly a right midfielder he could also operate as an attacking right back, being noted for his long-range strikes. He amassed La Liga totals of 257 matches and 13 goals over 11 seasons, in representation of Betis and Mallorca. He won one Copa del Rey with the former club. Born in Dos Hermanas, Province of Seville, Varela was a youth player at local Real Betis, and made his first-team – and La Liga – debut in 1996–97's closing stages, in a 1–1 away draw
Names for association football which prohibits similar games back to at least that century. This commonality is reflected in the auxiliary languages Esperanto and Interlingua, which utilize "futbalo" and "football", respectively. In the first half of the 20th century, in Spanish and Portuguese, new words were created to replace "football" ("fútbol" in Spanish and "futebol" in Portuguese), "balompié" ("balón" and "pie" meaning "ball" and "foot") and "ludopédio" (from words meaning "game" and "foot") respectively. However, these words were not widely accepted and are now only used in club names such as Real Betis Balompié and Albacete Balompié. Aside from the name of the game