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Sergio Ramos is leaving Real Madrid after 16 remarkable seasons. How did it come to this?

Sergio Ramos is the boy who didn't become a bullfighter because his mum wouldn't let him, but who hasn't believed that anything else in his life, from that day to this, is impossible.

- Official: Ramos, legendary defender, leaving Real Madrid
- 16 things about Ramos' 16 years at Real Madrid

In 2005, when Florentino Perez made Ramos the first Spanish signing of his reign as President, Real Madrid weren't buying a footballer, but a force of nature. The man who arrived and, brimming with the same brash I can do anything I want to inner lava, told the world "I want the No.