Aritz Aduriz

Aritz Aduriz 2008

Aritz Aduriz Zubeldia ( born February 11, 1981 in Donostia- San Sebastián ) is a Spanish footballer who plays in the Spanish La Liga at Athletic Bilbao.

Playing career

Aduriz came with 19 years with the team the second team of Athletic Bilbao after a born in Donostia- San Sebastián striker had previously played in some smaller clubs in youth. After three years as a regular player he was in the Segunda División B- rival FC Burgos awarded. With 16 goals this season, he drew attention to himself. For the season 2004 /05 then showed Real Valladolid, which had just been relegated after 13 years in the Segunda División Erstligazugehörigkeit again, interest in a lending transaction. This should pay off soon: Over the next 18 months Aduriz scored for Valladolid in 46 games scoring 20 goals.

This took his original club Athletic note and so you brought him back in early 2006. Then he was no longer an integral part of the starting line and the top scorer of the Basques at this time. On 19 May 2007, he shot at a 3:4 defeat against Real Zaragoza all three goals of his team.

In the summer of 2008 Aduriz joined the league rivals RCD Mallorca.

For the 2010/11 season he moved for a transfer fee in the amount of four million euros to FC Valencia. He signed a three-year contract. In his first year Aduriz scored ten goals in 29 games. After the signing of Jonas in January 2011 and due to the fact that coach Unai Emery was mostly just playing with a real tip and this position Roberto Soldado entrusted to Aduriz found more frequently in the sequence on the bench again.

For the 2012/13 season Aduriz returned to Athletic Bilbao.