Bilbao Athletic’s final promotion to the Second Division, currently called LaLiga Hypermotion 2023-24, was recorded in the same setting that the rojiblanco first team visited on Sunday. The puppies, then coached by Kuko Ziganda, appeared in Ramón de Carranza with a two-goal lead as a result of the 2-0 scoreline registered a week before in San Mamés thanks to several goals from Santamaría. That second leg ended 1-1, a result that allowed the red and white reserve team to move up a category.
From that match played on June 28, 2015 in the yellow fiefdom that took place on Sunday, where Cádiz now plays in the First Division, four players who have been lions for several years still remain in the red-and-white discipline. . All four are starters in this final match between Pellegrino and Valverde’s teams. There was a fifth player from the Bilbao Athletic squad who started this past Sunday, but by then he was also under the command of Valverde himself.
The three puppies from that Cádiz-Bilbao Athletic in the Second A promotion that were part of Athletic’s starting eleven on Sunday in what is now called Nuevo Mirandilla are Lekue, Yeray and Vesga. They all completed the match which served to confirm the red and white reserve team in the Silver Division. Asier Villalibre, for his part, came on in the 81st minute to replace the aforementioned Santamaría.
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Iñaki Williams was also part of that squad of Bilbao’s second team in the 2014–15 season. The now Ghana international started that campaign under Ziganda and ended it by making the jump to the first team alongside Valverde. The red and white striker did not take part in that ‘final’ against Cádiz.
Outside of the current Athletic squad there are also more cubs who later debuted as lions and even one who was part of the first team before the scene changed without debuting in the First Division and heading to a nearby club. Among the first group is Kepa Arrizabalaga. The now Real Madrid goalkeeper completed part of that campaign in the reserve team before leaving after a few months on loan at Ponferradina. Remiro, the starting goalkeeper of Bilbao Athletic, did not officially debut as a lion, but he has been playing for Real for many years.
Unai López and Sabin Merino also had some continuity with Athletic after closing out their trip to the reserve team. Undabarrena also left Lezama and debuted in the Primera, just like Gil.
Source: La Verdad
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