Daniel 'Dani' Estrada Agirrezabalaga (born 3 January 1987) is a Spanish professional

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who plays mainly as a

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. He spent the better part of his professional career with

Real Sociedad Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad (; ''Royal Society''), La Real in Spanish, Erreala in Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 Septem ...

, appearing in 153 competitive matches and spending six seasons in

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with the club.

Club career

A product of Basque Country giants

's youth system, Estrada was born in

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, and he spent his first two senior seasons with the reserves in the

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. In 2006–07 he finished second in Group II in goalscoring, netting a career-best 13 goals. Estrada made his debut with the first team on 10 February 2007, playing five minutes in a 2–1 home loss against

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. Three months later, in his third

appearance, he was also brought from the bench against

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(2–0 defeat, also at home), and finished his

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with eight games in an eventual relegation. In the following two

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campaigns, Estrada was irregularly put to use at Real Sociedad, as they consecutively failed to regain their top-flight status. In 2009–10, as the club returned to the latter competition after a three-year absence, he contributed 18 matches and 1,538 minutes. After being reconverted by manager Martín Lasarte the previous year, Estrada was used exclusively as a full-back in

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. He scored his first goal for the first team on 26 February 2011, but also put one in his own net in a 4–1 loss at

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. In late May 2014, Estrada renewed his contract with Real Sociedad until 2015. On 6 July of the following year, he signed a one-year deal with

Deportivo Alavés Deportivo Alavés, S.A.D. (; ''Sporting Alavés''), usually abbreviated to Alavés, is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the ...

after his link expired.

Honours

Real Sociedad *

: 2009–10 Alavés *Segunda División: 2015–16

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Estrada, Dani 1987 births Living people People from Zarautz Spanish men's footballers Footballers from Gipuzkoa Men's association football fullbacks Men's association football midfielders Men's association football utility players La Liga players Segunda División players Segunda División B players Real Sociedad B footballers Real Sociedad footballers Deportivo Alavés players Real Unión footballers Barakaldo CF footballers