Despite missing the performance against partner San Mamés, Athletic regained this summer the tradition of playing at least one summer friendly on Biscayan soil before the start of the League. This year it was in Las Llanas against Eibar de Etxebe. The match is set for August 3.
In this way, the previous drought in Bizkaia that started after the arrival of COVID is over. The lions, since then, have had summer friendlies at Lezama, but behind closed doors. Against Alavés and Eibar in 2020 and against Alavés last year. In 2021 he played nothing. In 2010, before the League started, either.
The Bilbao team, taking as reference the aforementioned rivalry in San Mamés against Fiorentina on August 18, 2007, played before the start of the League in Lasesarre (2007), Arlonagusia (2008), Fadura and La Florida (2009), Urritxe , Las Llanas and Arlonagusia (2011), Lasesarre and Las Llanas (2012), Itxas Gane and Las Llanas (2013), Fadura (2014), Basozabal and Las Llanas (2015), Sarriena (2016), Las Llanas, Sarriena and Lasesarre ( 2017), Urritxe and Lasesarre (2018) and Fadura (2019).
Source: La Verdad
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