Iñigo Ruiz de Galarreta Etxeberria (born 6 August 1993) is a Spanish professional
footballer
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who plays for
RCD Mallorca
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mainly as a
central midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Born in
San Sebastián
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,
Gipuzkoa
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, Ruiz de Galarreta joined
Athletic Bilbao
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's youth system in 2003, aged 10. On 14 December 2011, while still considered a youth squad player, he made his debut with the first team, coming on as a
substitute for
Borja Ekiza
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Club career Athletic Bilbao
Born in Pamplona, Ekiza arrived at Athletic Bilbao's youth system at the age of 14, being eligib ...
in the 88th minute of a 4–2 away loss against
Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
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in
that season's
UEFA Europa League
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; during
his first year, however, he almost exclusively played with
the reserves in
Segunda División B
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.
Ruiz de Galarreta made his second appearance for the main squad on 2 August 2012, again in the
Europa League
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but now against
NK Slaven Belupo
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(27 minutes played, 3–1 home win). He played his first
La Liga
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game on the 19th of the same month, replacing
Gaizka Toquero
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He spent most of his career with Athletic Bilbao, appearing in 207 competitive matches during seven La Liga seasons a ...
at
half-time
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of an eventual 3–5 home defeat to
Real Betis
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.
During a match with the B side against
Lleida Esportiu
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on 21 October 2012, Ruiz de Galarreta ruptured the
anterior cruciate ligament
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on his left knee, being sidelined for the remainder of the campaign. For
2013–14 he was loaned to
CD Mirandés
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of
Segunda División
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, where in a home game against
CD Numancia
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, on 27 October he suffered the same injury.
The following years, Ruiz de Galarreta played with
Real Zaragoza
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and
CD Leganés
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on loan, helping the latter club achieve a first-ever
promotion to the top flight in 2016. He continued to compete in the second division subsequently, representing Numancia,
FC Barcelona Atlètic
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and
UD Las Palmas
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.
On 2 September 2019, Ruiz de Galarreta signed a four-year contract with
RCD Mallorca
Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...
in the top tier, though it was agreed he would remain on loan at Las Palmas for
the upcoming season.
International career
Ruiz de Galarreta started representing
Spain
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, i ...
at
under-17 level, appearing in
friendlies
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against
Portugal
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,
Faroe Islands
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and
Romania
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. He also played for the
under-18s and the
under-19s.
Career statistics
References
External links
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1993 births
Living people
Spanish footballers
Footballers from San Sebastián
Association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
CD Basconia footballers
Bilbao Athletic footballers
Athletic Bilbao footballers
CD Mirandés footballers
Real Zaragoza players
CD Leganés players
CD Numancia players
FC Barcelona Atlètic players
UD Las Palmas players
RCD Mallorca players
Spain youth international footballers