Ane Azkona

Last updated

Ane Azkona
Real Sociedad vs Athletic Club CSC 0850 (33976031690) (cropped).jpg
Azkona (centre) with Athletic Club in 2017
Personal information
Full name Ane Azkona Fuente
Date of birth (1998-07-15) 15 July 1998 (age 27) [1]
Place of birth Pamplona, Spain [2]
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Athletic Club
Number 11
Youth career
2012–2014 Gazte Berriak
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014–2015 Gazte Berriak
2015–2016 Ardoi
2016–2019 Athletic Club B 62 (71)
2016– Athletic Club 161 (32)
International career‡
2016–2017 Spain U19 5 (4)
2022– Spain 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 July 2025
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 October 2022

Ane Azkona Fuente (born 15 July 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga F club Athletic Club and the Spain women's national team.

Contents

Club career

A keen rock climber and ballerina as a child, Azkona started her career playing futsal for Gazte Berriak, a team based in Ansoain. [3] Following this, she spent a year at Ardoi before signing for Athletic Club aged 18. [4] On 13 January 2019, she scored her first league goal for Athletic, in the 94th minute of a match against Sporting de Huelva. [5] [6] In the 2019–20 Primera División season, she provided more assists than any other Athletic player and signed a new three-year contract with the club at the end of that season. [7] [8]

On 10 June 2020, it was announced that she had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee during a training session. [9] She returned from this injury over eight months later. [7] She became an increasingly important member of the team over the subsequent seasons as other players departed; [3] in March 2023 she agreed a new contract running to 2026. [10]

International career

Azkona was part of the Spain under-19 squad which won the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship. [11] [3] In October 2019, she was called up to the inaugural squad for España Promesas (essentially Spain B), along with two clubmates. [12] [13] She made her full debut as a late substitute in a 2–0 friendly victory over the United States (played in her hometown Pamplona) in October 2022. [14]

References

  1. ↑ Ane Azkona at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Azkona". BDFutbol. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 David Menayo (22 September 2022). "Ane Azkona, la 'bailarina' que pide paso en la selección" [Ane Azkona, the 'ballerina' who asks for a place in the national team]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Grande, Juan Carlos (16 November 2019). "Ane Azkona: "Pedimos unos mínimos, tenemos que luchar por nuestros derechos"" [Ane Azkona: "We ask for a minimum, we have to fight for our rights"]. Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Garnández, Beatriz (13 January 2019). "Ane Azkona: «Era cuestión de tiempo que entrase el primer gol»" [Ane Azkona: "It was a matter of time before the first goal went in"]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Athletic Club vs Sporting de Huelva". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. 1 2 González, Laura (23 February 2021). "Ane Azkona, disponible ocho meses y medio después" [Ane Azkona, available eight and a half months later]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  8. ↑ ""I knew I wanted to stay here"". Athletic Club. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Jiménez, Mayca (10 June 2020). "Ane Azkona se rompe el ligamento cruzado anterior" [Ane Azkona tears her anterior cruciate ligament]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  10. ↑ Carlos Zaballa (24 March 2023). ""Yo también me he subido a este barco"" ["I have also boarded this boat"]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  11. ↑ 2017 WU19 EURO results in full, UEFA.com, 20 August 2017
  12. ↑ Oroz, Azkona and Damaris, with the Spanish Promesas, Athletic Bilbao, 30 October 2019
  13. ↑ Oficial: La RFEF crea la Selección Absoluta Promesas, una nueva selección femenina de fútbol (Official: The RFEF creates the Absolute Promises Selection, a new women's team) Archived 15 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine , SEfutbol (in Spanish), 29 October 2019
  14. ↑ USWNT stunned by reserve Spain side amid protests, ESPN, 11 October 2022
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.