Joseba Arriaga

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

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 (1982-07-28) 28 July 1982
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

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

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
  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)
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