David Karanka
Spanish footballer
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David Karanka de la Hoz (born 20 April 1978) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Karanka de la Hoz | ||
| Date of birth | 20 April 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Vitoria, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1997 | Athletic Bilbao | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–1998 | Basconia | 27 | (15) |
| 1998–2000 | Bilbao Athletic | 54 | (17) |
| 2000–2003 | Athletic Bilbao | 8 | (1) |
| 2000–2001 | → Extremadura (loan) | 39 | (13) |
| 2002–2003 | → Murcia (loan) | 36 | (13) |
| 2003–2005 | Murcia | 57 | (8) |
| 2005–2007 | Sporting Gijón | 40 | (2) |
| 2008 | Real Unión | 15 | (3) |
| 2008–2009 | Sant Andreu | 27 | (5) |
| 2009 | Guijuelo | 16 | (1) |
| 2010 | Orihuela | 11 | (2) |
| 2010–2013 | Cieza | 98 | (62) |
| Total | 428 | (142) | |
| International career | |||
| 2003 | Basque Country | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
He made 39 La Liga appearances over three seasons, scoring eight goals for Athletic Bilbao and Murcia. He added 141 matches and 29 goals in the Segunda División, in a 16-year senior career.
Club career
Karanka was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava. The younger brother of Athletic Bilbao, Real Madrid and Colorado Rapids player Aitor Karanka,[1] he was brought up at the Basque giants, and first appeared with the first team on 14 May 2000, playing 15 minutes in a 0–0 La Liga away draw against RCD Espanyol.[2]
After a loan stint to CF Extremadura in 2000–01, where he scored 13 Segunda División goals,[3] Karanka returned to Athletic, with virtually no impact (six games, although he scored once in a 3–2 thriller win at RC Celta de Vigo, as Bilbao trailed 2–0 with eight minutes remaining).[4][5] He subsequently returned to the second tier, helping Real Murcia CF achieve promotion in 2002–03 by netting 13 goals[6] and adding seven in next season's top flight – already as a permanent player after having been bought outright for €180,000[7]– as the club returned to where it came from.[8]
Two years later, Karanka transferred to fellow second-division side Sporting de Gijón where his form deteriorated, scoring only twice in 33 matches over two complete seasons.[9][10] In January 2008 he joined Real Unión in Irun,[11] moving in August to another Segunda División B team, UE Sant Andreu.[12]
Karanka split the 2009–10 campaign between CD Guijuelo and Orihuela CF also in division three,[13] totalling just three goals. Aged 32, he dropped down to the Tercera División and signed for CD Cieza.[14]
Karanka went on to work as an assistant manager, starting out at Murcia then joining Nottingham Forest in July 2018.[15] At the second of those clubs and the next, Birmingham City also of the English Championship, he worked under his brother Aitor.[16]