On July 18, at the stadium of el New Viewpoint of Algeciras, sealed last season so bumpy by the pandemic in the playooff for express promotion to the Second Division against CD Badajoz. He got lost with his boots on, in the cruel penalty shootout, but exporting players like those who are currently doing the preseason with the first team, Ezkieta, Iru, Areso, Vencedor, Zarraga, Sancet, Guruzeta, Morcillo, Urain and Nico Serrano, plus Dani Vivian’s loan to Mirandés. Production at the factory, which is Joseba Etxeberria’s first challenge at the helm of this Bilbao Athletic. This afternoon (6pm) on Thursday, just 33 days later, returns to the load at the Lezama facilities to prepare this season , still full of global uncertainties in the configuration of the 5 Groups and if finally the competition starts in mid-October.
Bilbao Atletic is reformulated, law of life, after that elimination on the Costa del Sol that has hardened the puppies. “I am proud of the players, next year we will try again”Etxebe slipped. The countdown begins with the same purpose and with quality in the relay. It is time for the promotion that pushes from Basconia, championed by the Aguirezabala, Núñez, Prados, Paredes, Cabo, Diarra y los Nicos, Serrano and Williams, so that the machinery does not cease in the rojiblanca factory in search, again, to sneak into the bid for promotion, or at least settle with sufficiency, in the next Second B Pro.
They renewed the central one more year Oier Luengo, scorer of the goal against CD Badajoz, Andoni Tascón and Iñigo Baqué, and two more years Víctor San Bartolomé, while Jon Rojo, Javier Murua and Antonio Salado, who ended their contracts on June 30, left the entity after extending their contracts until the end of the express playoff. The three decide their best fate after rescinding, for his part, the goalkeeper Hodei Oleaga, who has enrolled in the Barakaldo de Segunda B. Asier Córdoba was committed to Osasuna B until 2022, with one more extendable year, and that’s it immersed in the preseason of the rojillo team at the controls of Arrasate and Alkiza. Goalkeepers Aritz de Miguel and Chris Atangana, who were returning from their assignments at SD Leioa and Somorrostro respectively, have re-enlisted at Sarriena and Arenas to continue their training on loan.
With these credentials, Etxeberria will have this 2020-21 campaign for the goal to Ander Iru and Julen Agirrezabala. In the rear, Sillero, Luengo, Bernaola and García de Albéniz repeat. For the right back, right back Álvaro Núñez rises from Basconia to replace Areso, while Ander Lorente, still from 2001, would be straddling the two subsidiaries due to his versatility. Kortazar opts on the left side to replace Rojo, Paredes is fixed even to start as a center-back, he can also make 6, and the possibility that Arberas will make a hole in the axis of the rear. A position to which Antxon Jaso, signed last summer from Burgos, who returns to Lezama from his assignment in Urritxe with SD Amorebieta, is also bidding. In the wide zone, Beñat Prados will act as Sancet, Oier Zarraga will be vital already stomping after his preseason with Gaizka Garitano, and Diarra, Basconia’s top gunner (13 goals), who moves with playmaker dexterity, rises.
In the three-quarter line, the electric Juan Artola repeats, plus Jon Cabo with more gallons, and the youth Nico Serrano (2003) and Nico Williams (2002) who must corroborate their talent to act in any of the offensive bands or as a battering ram in the case of Iñaki Williams’ little brother. From 9, the Durangarra Ewan Urain, also fired up, and Tascón will enjoy the minutes denied by the continuous injuries of last year. Azcona (2001) will continue in the second branch to add many minutes in Third, although with Etxebe attentive to his evolution once he has recovered from a tiresome meniscus injury.
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