Alejandro "Álex" Berenguer Remiro (born 4 July 1995) is a Spanish professional

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who plays as a winger for

Athletic Bilbao Athletic Club ( eu, Bilboko Athletic Kluba; es, Athletic Club de Bilbao), commonly known as Athletic Bilbao or just Athletic, is a professional Association football, football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country (autonomous com ...

. He began his career at

Osasuna Club Atlético Osasuna (, ''Osasuna Athletic Club''), or simply Osasuna, is a Spanish professional football club in Pamplona, Navarre. Founded on 24 October 1920, the club currently plays in La Liga, holding home games at the 23,576-capacity El ...

in 2014, and played in Italy with

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for three seasons before joining Athletic in 2020.

Club career

Osasuna

Berenguer was born in

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; his father's family is from

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. He graduated with

CA Osasuna Club Atlético Osasuna (, ''Osasuna Athletic Club''), or simply Osasuna, is a Spanish professional football club in Pamplona, Navarre. Founded on 24 October 1920, the club currently plays in La Liga, holding home games at the 23,576-capacity El Sa ...

's youth setup, and made his debuts as a senior with the reserves in the 2013–14 campaign, in

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. On 10 September 2014, Berenguer made his professional debut, replacing

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in the 81st minute of a 2–0 away loss against

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, for the season's

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. He made his

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debut on 10 January of the following year, again from the bench in a 1–1 away draw against

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. Berenguer scored his first professional goal on 30 August 2015, netting the game's only in a home success over

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. The following 29 January he extended his contract until 2020, and finished the campaign with three goals in 39 appearances as his side achieved promotion to

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. Berenguer made his debut in the highest category of Spanish football on 22 September 2016, starting in a 2–1 home loss against

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. He scored in the top division for the first time on 5 April of the following year, netting the game's only goal in an away success over

Torino

On 17 July 2017, Berenguer was sold to Italian club

for €5.5 million (plus €1 million in bonuses). In addition, a clause was inserted for an additional €1.5 million in the event he was sold to

(a club he had been close to signing for but which has a rivalry with Osasuna, made worse in the weeks beforehand over accusations of Athletic 'poaching' a youth player).

Athletic Bilbao

On 2 October 2020, Athletic Bilbao reached an agreement with Torino for the transfer of Berenguer, who agreed to a four-year deal with the ''Lions''. In January 2021 he claimed a winner's medal with his new club in the

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played in

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. Two months later, he scored a winning goal in

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against

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to send Athletic to the 2021 Copa del Rey Final. He started the final, but was substituted in the second half and the match, again in Seville's

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, was lost 4–0 to

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. A similar scenario at the same venue had unfolded two weeks earlier in the delayed

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, a 1–0 defeat by

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. Berenguer also scored eight league goals in his first season at San Mamés, but he did not find the net again for several months of the following campaign and came under threat from teenager

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in the battle for a regular starting place on the wing. In February 2022 he broke his duck for the season with a "stunning" late winner against

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at the

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's quarter-final stage, having come on for the injured Williams at half-time.

Career statistics

Honours

Athletic Bilbao *

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runner-up: 2019–20,

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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Berenguer Remiro, Alejandro 1995 births Living people Footballers from Pamplona Spanish footballers Association football wingers La Liga players Segunda División players Tercera División players CA Osasuna B players CA Osasuna players Athletic Bilbao footballers Serie A players Torino F.C. players Spanish expatriate footballers Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate footballers in Italy People of Andalusian descent