Arene Altonaga Etxebarria (born 25 February 1993) is a Spanish

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who plays for

Eibar Eibar ( eu, Eibar, es, Éibar) is a city and municipality within the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain. It is the head town of Debabarrena, one of the '' eskualde / comarca'' of Gipuzkoa. Eibar has 27,138 inhabitants ( Eusta ...

as a

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. She began her senior career at Athletic Bilbao and made her Primera División debut in 2009, a week after her 16th birthday; however her progress was stalled by injury and appearances at that level were infrequent – she played mainly for the

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before leaving the club in 2015. She then spent two seasons with Oiartzun and one with

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

(suffering relegation from the top tier with both clubs in successive years) prior to joining Eibar in 2018. Arene played a minor role in the Eibar squad which gained promotion to the Primera in the 2019–20 season, having suffered a serious injury (rupturing the

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of her right knee) at the end of the previous campaign in a Copa Euskal Herria match against her former club Athletic. She had experienced a similar injury as a teenager. At the end of that season she and the club reached an agreement to extend her contract until 2022. She has been selected for the unofficial

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which plays only occasionally, making her first appearance in December 2022 against

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