Joseba Arriaga

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

Joseba Arriaga

Personal information

Full name Joseba Arriaga Dosantos

Date of birth 28 July 1982 (age 38)

Place of birth Ermua, Spain

Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)

Position(s) 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 69 (20)

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 427 (79)

National team

2002–2003 Spain U21 8 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league
only

Joseba Arriaga Dosantos (born 28 July 1982) is a Spanish retired footballer who

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

Club career[edit]
Born in Ermua, Biscay, 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 roughly one month
later, playing the full 90 minutes against Real Sociedad in a local derby (2–4 away loss).
[1]

Arriaga's importance would drastically diminish in the following campaign, being only
third or fourth-choice in the offence, and eventually had to resume his career in
the second division, with SD Eibar and UD Las Palmas. Following that, he had two
steady years with Real Jaén – but in the third level.
After a good second year, Arriaga stayed in Andalusia but moved to Cádiz CF, freshly
returned to division two.[2] He was loaned to Deportivo Alavés in the third tier in the 2010
winter transfer window after receiving very few opportunities,[3] and alternated in the
following years between the second and third divisions of Spanish football, with AD
Ceuta, CD Guadalajara[4] and Gimnàstic de Tarragona.[5]
Arriaga was released by Catalonia's Gimnàstic in late December 2012.[6] In mid-January
of the following year he returned to his native region, signing for lowly Barakaldo CF.[7]
On 22 May 2014, Arriaga moved to neighbouring SD Amorebieta also in the third level.
[8]
 Four years later, after another spell with that club and also Real Unión, the 36-year-old
announced his retirement.[9]

References[edit]
1. ^ Apuntes de genio (Glimpse of a genius); Mundo Deportivo, 2 September 2002 (in Spanish)
2. ^ Joseba Arriaga ficha para reforzar la delantera cadista (Joseba Arriaga signs to
strengthen cadista offence); Marca, 2 July 2009 (in Spanish)
3. ^ 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)
4. ^ Joseba Arriaga, segundo fichaje del Deportivo Guadalajara (Joseba Arriaga, second
Deportivo Guadalajara signing) Archived 29 June 2012 at Archive.today; Guadalajara Dos
Mil, 15 July 2011 (in Spanish)
5. ^ Joseba Arriaga, el último retoque (Joseba Arriaga, last touch); Diari de Tarragona, 31
August 2012 (in Spanish)
6. ^ 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)
7. ^ El exrojiblanco Arriaga, al Barakaldo (Former red-and-white Arriaga, to Barakaldo); El
Correo, 22 January 2013 (in Spanish)
8. ^ Joseba Arriaga ficha por la SD Amorebieta (Joseba Arriaga signs for SD
Amorebieta); Vavel, 22 May 2014 (in Spanish)
9. ^ 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”); Deia, 30 May 2018 (in Spanish)

External links[edit]
 Joseba Arriaga at BDFutbol
 Joseba Arriaga at Athletic Bilbao
 Stats and bio at Cadistas1910 (in Spanish)
 Joseba Arriaga at Futbolme (in Spanish)
 Joseba Arriaga at Soccerway