Athletic Club (Basque: Athletic Kluba; Spanish: Athletic Club), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao (Spanish: Athletic de Bilbao), [4 ] or simply Athletic, is a professional football club based in the city of Bilbao, Spain.
The previous season, Athletic's German head coach Jupp Heynckes had guided them to a fine 5th-place finish in La Liga. [2 ] This was their best finish for six years, and qualified them for the first round of the 1994–95 UEFA Cup after five…
Since then, Bilbao has experienced an exponential growth in population thanks to industrialisation. After a peak of 433,115 inhabitants in 1982, the municipalities of the Txorierri valley were removed from Bilbao, with the corresponding loss…
Prior to the 2011–12 season, Athletic's members held their latest presidential election, with incumbent Fernando García Macua [es] defeated by former player Josu Urrutia.
Reprezentační kariéru zakončil s 51 vstřelenými brankami, jako historicky nejlepší střelec národního mužstva Les Bleus. [1 ] Po trenérském angažmá v kanadském týmu Montreal Impact hrajícím Major League Soccer se před Eurem 2021 vrátil k…