Arene
Personal information
Full name Arene Altonaga Etxebarria
Date of birth (1993-02-25) 25 February 1993
Place of birth Sondika, Spain
Height 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Eibar
Number 7
Youth career
Lauro Ikastola
2007–2008 Pauldarrak
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2014 Athletic B 89 (9)
2009–2015 Athletic Bilbao 13 (0)
2015–2017 Oiartzun 46 (5)
2017–2018 Zaragoza 25 (0)
2018– Eibar 102+ (0+)
International career‡
2010 Spain U17 2 (0)
2011 Spain U19 2 (0)
2022– Basque Country 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:13, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:08, 16 December 2023 (UTC)~

Arene Altonaga Etxebarria (born 25 February 1993) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Eibar as a midfielder.[1][2]

She began her senior career at Athletic Bilbao and made her Primera División debut in 2009, a week after her 16th birthday; however her progress was stalled by injury and appearances at that level were infrequent – she played mainly for the B team before leaving the club in 2015. She then spent two seasons with Oiartzun[3][4] and one with Zaragoza[5] (suffering relegation from the top tier with both clubs in successive years)[6] prior to joining Eibar in 2018.[7]

Arene played a minor role in the Eibar squad which gained promotion to the Primera in the 2019–20 season, having suffered a serious injury (rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament of her right knee) at the end of the previous campaign in a Copa Euskal Herria match against her former club Athletic.[8] She had experienced a similar injury as a teenager.[4] At the end of that season she and the club reached an agreement to extend her contract until 2022.[9]

She has been selected for the unofficial Basque Country women's national football team which plays only occasionally, making her first appearance in December 2022 against Chile.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Arene Altonaga, SD Eibar (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 October 2021
  2. ↑ "Arene quiere que el derbi ante el Athletic sirva para mostrar que «aquí está el Eibar»" [Arene wants the derby against Athletic to show that "here is Eibar"] (in Spanish). El Diario Vasco. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "El debut del Oiartzun se salda con sabor agridulce" [Oiartzun's debut ends with a bittersweet taste] (in Spanish). Naiz. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Arene Altonaga, Oiartzun taldeko futbolaria" [Arene Altonaga, footballer of the Oiartzun team] (in Basque). Aikor. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Arene, Txapeldunak (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 October 2021
  6. ↑ "El Oiartzun acompaña al Tacuense a Segunda división" [Oiartzun accompanies Tacuense to Second division] (in Spanish). Marca. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "Arene Altonaga: "El equipo está fuerte"" [Arene Altonaga: "The team is strong"] (in Spanish). El Desmarque. 16 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "Arene sufre una rotura de ligamento cruzado y menisco interno" [Arene suffers a torn cruciate ligament and internal meniscus] (in Spanish). SD Eibar. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Arene Altonaga sera armera hasta 2022" [Arene Altonaga will be a gunsmith until 2022] (in Spanish). Reinas del Balón. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "La Euskal Selekzioa logra una contundente victoria ante Chile (3-0)" [The Basque Selection achieves a resounding victory against Chile (3-0)]. EITB (in Spanish). 21 December 2022.
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