Joseba Arriaga

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arriaga and the second or maternal family name is Dosantos.

Joseba Arriaga
Arriaga in 2016
Personal information
Full name Joseba Arriaga Dosantos
Date of birth (1982-07-28) 28 July 1982
Place of birth Ermua, Spain
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position Forward
Youth career
1996–1997 Ermua
1997–2000 Athletic Bilbao
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2001 Basconia 38 (12)
2001–2002 Bilbao Athletic 30 (15)
2002–2006 Athletic Bilbao 56 (3)
2005–2006 → Eibar (loan) 28 (1)
2006–2007 Las Palmas 32 (1)
2007–2009 Jaén 63 (17)
2009–2010 Cádiz 5 (0)
2010 → Alavés (loan) 19 (7)
2010–2011 Ceuta 8 (0)
2011–2012 Guadalajara 18 (0)
2012 Gimnàstic 11 (1)
2013–2014 Barakaldo 28 (12)
2014–2016 Amorebieta 50 (5)
2016–2017 Real Unión 25 (2)
2018 Amorebieta 10 (0)
Total 421 (76)
International career
2002–2003 Spain U21 8 (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joseba Arriaga Dosantos (born 28 July 1982) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a forward.

Brought up at Athletic Bilbao, he spent most of his 18-year senior career in the Segunda División B, representing a host of clubs. His professional input consisted of 56 La Liga matches (three goals), and 83 appearances in the Segunda División for four teams.

Club career

Born in Ermua, Biscay,[1] Arriaga emerged through Athletic Bilbao's youth system at Lezama, and was promoted to the first team for the 2002–03 season. He made his debut in a friendly against farm team CD Basconia on 26 July 2002, coming on as a substitute for Julen Guerrero. He first appeared in La Liga one month later, playing the full 90 minutes of the 4–2 away loss against Real Sociedad in a Basque derby.[2]

Arriaga's importance would drastically diminish the in the 2003–04 campaign, when he was only third or fourth-choice, and eventually had to resume his career in the Segunda División, with SD Eibar and UD Las Palmas. He then had two steady years at Real Jaén, but in the Segunda División B.[3]

After a good second year where he scored 12 goals, Arriaga stayed in Andalusia but moved to Cádiz CF, recently returned to the second division.[4] He was loaned to Deportivo Alavés one league below in the 2010 winter transfer window,[5] and alternated between the second and third tiers of Spanish football the following seasons, with AD Ceuta, CD Guadalajara[6] and Gimnàstic de Tarragona.[7]

Arriaga was released by Catalonia's Gimnàstic in late December 2012.[8] He returned to his native region in January 2013, signing for lowly Barakaldo CF.[9]

On 22 May 2014, Arriaga moved to neighbouring SD Amorebieta also in the third tier.[10] Four years later, following another spell with that club and also Real Unión, the 36-year-old announced his retirement.[11]

References

  1. ^ El Guadalajara y el Alcorcón están interesados en el fichaje del delantero Mikel Arruabarrena (Guadalajara and Alcorcón are interested in signing forward Mikel Arruabarrena); El Diario Vasco, 22 July 2011 (in Spanish)
  2. ^ Apuntes de genio (Glimpse of a genius); Mundo Deportivo, 2 September 2002 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Arriaga: "Por fin vuelvo a disfrutar del fútbol" (Arriaga: "I finally enjoy football again"); Diario AS, 5 July 2008 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Joseba Arriaga ficha para reforzar la delantera cadista (Joseba Arriaga signs to strengthen Cádiz attack); Marca, 2 July 2009 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ El delantero Joseba Arriaga llega cedido al Alavés hasta final de temporada (Forward Joseba Arriaga arrives on loan to Alavés until the end of the season); ABC, 8 January 2010 (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Joseba Arriaga, al Guadalajara (Joseba Arriaga, to Guadalajara); El Correo, 19 July 2011 (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Joseba Arriaga, el último retoque (Joseba Arriaga, last touch); Diari de Tarragona, 31 August 2012 (in Spanish)
  8. ^ Las tres primeras bajas en el Nàstic (Nàstic's first three releases) Archived 31 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine; Diari de Tarragona, 21 December 2012 (in Spanish)
  9. ^ El exrojiblanco Arriaga, al Barakaldo (Former red-and-white Arriaga, to Barakaldo); El Correo, 22 January 2013 (in Spanish)
  10. ^ Joseba Arriaga ficha por la SD Amorebieta (Joseba Arriaga signs for SD Amorebieta); Vavel, 22 May 2014 (in Spanish)
  11. ^ Joseba Arriaga: “Me quedo con las personas que he conocido por el camino” (Joseba Arriaga: "I leave with the people I met along the way") Archived 5 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine; Deia, 30 May 2018 (in Spanish)
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