Daniel Aranzubia
Aranzubia in 2008
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| Full name | Daniel Aranzubia Aguado | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 September 1979 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Logroño, Spain | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Loyola | |||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Athletic Bilbao | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Bilbao Athletic | 70 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Basconia | 31 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2000–2008 | Athletic Bilbao | 162 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2013 | Deportivo La Coruña | 178 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Atlético Madrid | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 442 | (1) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Spain U16 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Spain U20 | 9 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Spain U21 | 17 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Spain U23 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2004 | Spain | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Daniel "Dani" Aranzubia Aguado (born 18 September 1979) is a former Spanish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He appeared in 303 La Liga games over the course of 13 seasons, with Athletic Bilbao – in whose youth system he grew – Deportivo and Atlético Madrid.
Aranzubia represented Spain at Euro 2004.
Born in Logroño, La Rioja, but nonetheless a product of Athletic Bilbao's famed youth academy at Lezama, Aranzubia made his first-team debut on 10 June 2001 in a 1–3 home derby loss against Real Sociedad. After two seasons as backup to Iñaki Lafuente, he emerged as the side's undisputed starter, helping them qualify to the UEFA Cup in 2004 while extending his contract a further four years.
After additional struggles for first-choice duties with Lafuente in the 2005–06 campaign, Aranzubia was definitely deemed surplus to requirements by the Basques after the emergence of Gorka Iraizoz, not appearing even when the first-choice was severely injured during 2007–08 (Athletic received veteran Armando on loan from Cádiz CF, and he became the starter).
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