Aimar Sagastibelza Caballero (born 5 July 1984) is a Spanish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

SD Amorebieta Sociedad Deportiva Amorebieta is a Spanish football team based in Amorebieta-Etxano, in the Basque Country. Founded in 1925, it currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at '' Campo Municipal de Urritxe'', which s ...

mainly as a

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Club career

Born in

Leitza Leitza ( es, Leiza; eu, Leitza) is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Notable people *Mikel Nieve (born 26 May 1984), professional road cyclist *Aimar Sagastibelza Aimar Sag ...

Navarre Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...

, Aimar made his debut as a senior with

Tolosa CF Tolosa Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football team based in Tolosa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1922, it plays in the Tercera División RFEF – Group 4, holding home games at '' Estadio Beratzubi'', with a capacit ...

in the 2005–06 season, in

Tercera División Tercera División ( en, Third Division) was the fourth tier of the Spanish football league system. Founded in 1929, it was below the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga), the ''Segunda División'', and the semi-professional ''Segunda Di ...

. After a short stint at

SD Beasain Sociedad Deportiva Beasain is a Spanish football team based in Beasain, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1905 it plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at ''Estadio Loinaz'', with a capacity of ...

he joined

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. ...

, initially being assigned to the farm team also in the fourth tier. In the summer of 2008, Aimar was promoted to the

Catalans Catalans (Catalan language, Catalan, French language, French and Occitan language, Occitan: ''catalans''; es, catalanes, Italian language, Italian: ''catalani'', sc, cadelanos) are a Romance languages, Romance ethnic group native to Cataloni ...

' first team in the

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

. He played his first match as a professional on 22 November, featuring the last 11 minutes of a 1–1 away draw against

Real Murcia Real Murcia Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., commonly known as Real Murcia (, "Royal Murcia"), is a Spanish football club based in Murcia, in the Región de Murcia. Founded in 1919, it currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, playing ho ...

. Aimar terminated his contract with ''Nàstic'' on 16 September 2009, and signed with

CD Teruel Club Deportivo Teruel is a Spanish football team based in Teruel, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1954, the club plays in the Segunda División RFEF – Group 3, and holds home games at ''Estadio Pinilla'', with a capacity of ...

of the fourth division a day later. He appeared in 36 games and scored once in his first season, which ended in promotion. On 28 June 2012, Aimar joined

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

club

SD Eibar Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in eu, Eibar Kirol Elkartea) is a professional Spanish football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country. Founded on 30 November 1940, the team currently plays in the Segunda División, the s ...

. He featured sparingly for the side, who were promoted to the professional leagues after a four-year absence, and subsequently moved to

Real Unión Real Unión Club, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Irun, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the province of Gipuzkoa, near the border with France. Founded on 15 May 1915 it currently plays in Primera División RFEF ...

also in division three, where he was at one point part of one of the league's oldest squads. On 27 August 2018, Aimar signed for third-tier

Gernika Club Gernika Club is a Spanish football team based in Gernika, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1922 it plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at '' Estadio Urbieta'', with a capacity of 3,000 seats ...

. The 35-year-old agreed to a contract at

in the same league and region the following July, helping in their first-ever promotion to the second division at the end of the 2020–21 campaign.Aimar pone la guinda, todos los azules han debutado en Segunda (Aimar puts icing on cake, every blue has now made their ''Segunda'' debut)

Diario AS ''Diario AS'' () is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football. Profile ''Diario AS'' is part of PRISA which also owns '' El País'' and ''Cinco Días''. The paper particularly covers news of the Community of M ...

, 9 November 2021 (in Spanish)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagastibelza, Aimar 1984 births Living people People from Norte de Aralar Spanish footballers Footballers from Navarre Association football defenders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Tolosa CF footballers SD Beasain footballers CF Pobla de Mafumet footballers Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers CD Teruel footballers SD Eibar footballers Real Unión footballers Gernika Club footballers SD Amorebieta footballers