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- ↑ Confía Iturriaga en mejoría del Athletic (Iturriaga trusts in Athletic improvement) Archived 8 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine ; Es Más, 21 November 2006 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Athletic de Bilbao, cien años sin extranjeros (Athletic de Bilbao, one hundred years without foreign players); La Vanguardia, 18 December 2011 (in Spanish)
- ↑ Gimnastic de Tarragona 2–3 Athletic Bilbao; ESPN Soccernet, 15 October 2006
- ↑ El mexicano Iturriaga, posible ante los rojillos (Mexico's Iturriaga, a possibility against the reds); La Jornada, 15 March 2007 (in Spanish)
- ↑ "La diáspora de Lezama" [Lezama's diaspora] (in Spanish). El Correo. 22 January 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ↑ "A Javier Iturriaga le encantaría jugar en la selección mexicana" [Javier Iturriaga would love to play in the Mexican national team] (in Spanish). Medio Tiempo. 21 November 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
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