Which Athletic player do you associate with the number 2 number?

Andoni Gorosabel is number 2 for Athletic. The San Sebastian full-back, one of the new faces of the rojiblanco team, got it this season. I want to understand that you have not read anything, nor have they told you anything about how long this number has been in Athletic. In fact, this is a number that has had no owner for some time.

Gorosabel played at number 2 at Alavés, at Sanse and at Real Unión, but not at Real. In five of the six seasons he played for the Txuri Urdin team he wore the number 18. And that number at Athletic is a lot of numbers.

The right-back started against Getafe on the opening day, missing out on Valverde’s plans and his fine second half at Leganés gives hope that he will be the best version of Andoni, as he was at Vitoria. Athletic made a good market move, as football director Mikel González says, with this type of operation. Just like last season it happened to Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta and it looks like next season to Robert Navarro, a Mallorca player.

Alright, when it comes to numbers I’m very classic and I like number 2 to be the right back. Now, I know what many of you are thinking because when you asked which player you thought of when you read the headline about associating the number 2 with a lion to almost everyone, Gaizka Toquero came to you. The ‘lehendakari’ wore that number since he arrived at Athletic, and he stayed with that number until he left. It’s true that later at Alavés and Zaragoza he wore different numbers, but I don’t seem to have seen a striker with number 2, I’m sorry.

And soon there was another, Kenan Kodro, although in the case of San Sebastian only for a time, then he changed. Although the now Turkish Gaziantep player came to wear the 3 in Valladolid. Wondering. Aitor Huegún or even Jon Morcillo, an offensive player, are other players who wore number two for Athletic.

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I found some data there where Andoni Zubizarreta, in the 84/85 season, had that number. I haven’t confirmed this with photos, to be honest. But a goalkeeper with number two would be remarkable. For me, talking about 2 at Athletic is about Andoni Lakabeg. This is my weakness. I grew up a member of the red and white club at Laka’s performances. On its merits and demerits.

Time also allowed me to get to know him in person, which made me like him even more because he was a friendly, outgoing guy and from my little interactions he seemed like a good guy. Other notable players to wear this number in the club’s history are Orúe; the great Iñaki Sáez; Santi Urkiaga, the starting full-back in the last League and currently in the World Cup and Euro Cup; Guisasola, Txetxu Gallego, although he shined more in the middle of the field; or Iñigo Larrainzar, who wore number 21 over number 2, and took out the violin in the European match Athletic played in Genoa against Sampdoria in today’s celebration. I now hope that someone in the Olympic Stadium will bring out a violin, a trumpet or some instrument to celebrate a red and white goal. Of course, don’t let the doorman take the guitar, which is not a good sign.

Marcos, Iraola, who has always worn the number 15, and Lekue, are right backs that Athletic have and have and have never worn that number. If this is Gorosabel’s case, I hope she will be settled on the right side. We will see if now he has the chance to play European minutes like the ones he had at Real Sociedad during his time. It won’t be something from another Thursday.