Date of birth 21 August 1933 Role Footballer Name Eneko Arieta | Playing position Date of death 27 December 2004 Position Midfielder | |
 | ||
Full name Eneko Arieta-Araunabena Stone Place of birth Durango, Vizcaya, Spain Place of death Galdakao, Vizcaya, Spain Died December 27, 2004, Galdakao, Spain | ||
Eneko Arieta-Araunabena Stone, better known as "Arieta I", was a Spanish footballer. He played throughout his professional career at the Athletic Club in La Liga, during the late 1950 and 1960. In this club are part of the History of Athletic«team of 11 villagers». Arieta was a player who not only had a great nose for goal, but also helped greatly in defensive duties.
Contents
Biography
Eneko Arieta started playing soccer in teams of its people in Durango, initially it did in the Brothers and Jesuits, and subsequently became part of Tavira, team with which was consolidated in the center forward position. He later ascended another step in his career to go play in the Getxo, which definitely gets the jump to the Athletic Club.
Arieta debuted with the Athletic Club in the season 1951/52, in a match played at the Sporting de Gijon that ended with a 4–2 favorable result for Bilbao Two of the four goals were the work of the Athletic Arieta own.
During his first two seasons with Athletic appearances in the starting rojiblanco were testimonial, due in large part to recent years coincided with the "second front historic 'Athletic, the which consisted of 5 established players like Iriondo, Venancio, Zarra, Panizo and Gainza.
Not until the temporda 1953/54 when he finally Arieta with Athletic highlight the "second front historic" given its death throes and new talent as Arieta were becoming more with a hole in the starting lineup. Arieta In that season he scored 12 goals in 24 league games and scored 5 goals in cup only 4 games.
The next season Arieta was crucial, because with the arrival of new coach Fernando Daucik, the staff was restructured and the "second front historic" eventually disbanded. Players like Zarra, Panizo, etc. ... Athletic left. This left the free passage for young talents as a battering ram, which at tempoarada of 1954/55 has become the successor to Zarra, at 21 years old. Having scored 20 goals in 28 league matches. To put the icing on the season, Arieta won the Copa del Rey with the Athletic.
Subsequent seasons Arieta conquered a league title and two cup, noting the title of Copa del Rey of 1958 won by defeating the Real Madrid of Di Stefano and in which major player Arieta was marking the first of two goals of the match.
He retired in 1966, having spent 15 seasons in the Athletic Club in which he played 295 matches and won a league and three cups. Arieta became one of the top scoring forwards in the history of Athletic to have scored 170 goals for club, 136 of them in league.
Honours
With Athletic Bilbao: