Personal information | |||
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Full name | Itziar Gastearena Artola | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 4 May 1993||
Place of birth | Amasa-Villabona, Spain [2] | ||
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Alavés | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2011 | Tolosa | ||
2011–2018 | Real Sociedad | 181 | (3) |
2018–2019 | Eibar | ||
2019–2022 | Alavés | 52 | (0) |
2022– | Granada | 40 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2017– | Basque Country | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:46, 16 December 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:45, 16 December 2023 (UTC) |
Itziar Gastearena Artola (born 4 May 1993) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a defender for Granada.
Gaste started her career at Tolosa. [3] She was with Real Sociedad for seven seasons, making nearly 200 appearances for the Txuri-urdin and recovering from a serious anterior cruciate ligament injury to her right knee sustained in 2016. [4]
In 2018 she signed for Eibar, moving between the Gipuzkoan clubs along with three Real teammates. [5] A year later – along with goalkeeper Cris Cornejo, another of the group who had switched to Eibar – Gaste moved on to Alavés, of the same level, [6] and was a regular member of the team as they won the Segunda División Pro title and gained promotion to the Primera in the 2020–21 season. [7] In 2022 she joined Granada, and a year later was again part of a promotion-winning squad, this time via the playoffs (overcoming Osasuna then Deportivo de La Coruña). [8]
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