Arene Altonaga
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Arene Altonaga Etxebarria | ||
| Date of birth | 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 | 147+ | (1+) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2010 | Spain U17 | 2 | (0) |
| 2011 | Spain U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2022– | Basque Country | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 July 2025 ‡ 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 one week after her 16th birthday in 2009; 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 an agreement was reached to extend her contract until 2022.[9] Following the departure of Sheila Elorza in 2023, Arene was named as Eibar captain for the club's upcoming campaign back in the top division.[10]
Arene 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.[11]