Isaac Aketxe Barrutia (; born 30 June 1989) is a Spanish professional
footballer
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who plays as an
attacking midfielder
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.
Club career
Aketxe was born in
Bilbao
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,
Biscay
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. Having emerged through
Athletic Bilbao
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's prolific youth ranks (although he also played youth football with
Basque
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* Basque language, their language
Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
neighbours
Arenas Club de Getxo), he made his
La Liga
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debut on 20 September 2009, coming on as a
substitute for
striker Fernando Llorente in the final ten minutes of a 3–2 home win against
Villarreal CF
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. He spent the vast majority of his first two seasons at the club with the
reserve team
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, in the
Segunda División B
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.
For the
2010–11 campaign, Aketxe was loaned to another side in the region,
Sestao River Club of the
Tercera División
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. In the summer of 2011, his contract with Athletic was not renewed and he signed for
SD Eibar in division three.
Aketxe continued competing in the third tier until his retirement, with
Real Sociedad B
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, Sestao,
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa,
Albacete Balompié
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,
FC Cartagena
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,
UCAM Murcia CF and
Hércules CF
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. In
2014–15, while at the service of Cultural, he scored a career-best 20 goals.
Personal life
Aketxe's younger brother,
Ager
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* Ager (river), a river in Upper Austria
* Àger, a municipality in Catalonia, Spain
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* Ager, Californ ...
, was also a footballer and a midfielder. He too was groomed at Athletic Bilbao. Their father, known as Isaac Aqueche due to spelling conventions of the time, played as a midfielder in the lower divisions of Spanish football including a spell with Athletic's reserves.
References
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1989 births
Living people
21st-century Spanish sportsmen
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Getxo
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Primera Federación players
Segunda Federación players
Tercera Federación players
Arenas Club de Getxo footballers
Athletic Bilbao B footballers
Athletic Bilbao footballers
Sestao River Club footballers
SD Eibar footballers
Real Sociedad B footballers
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa players
Albacete Balompié players
FC Cartagena footballers
UCAM Murcia CF players
Hércules CF players
CF La Nucía players
UD Alzira footballers
CD Badajoz players