Ane Azkona
Azkona (centre, No 28) with Athletic Club, 2017
Personal information
Full name Ane Azkona Fuente
Date of birth (1998-07-15) 15 July 1998[1]
Place of birth Pamplona, Spain[2]
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Athletic Club
Number 11
Youth career
2012–2014 Gazte Berriak
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Gazte Berriak
2015–2016 Ardoi
2016–2019 Athletic Club B 62 (71)
2016– Athletic Club 115 (22)
International career‡
2016–2017 Spain U19 5 (4)
2022– Spain 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 October 2022

Ane Azkona Fuente (born 15 July 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga F club Athletic Club and the Spain women's national team.

Club career

A keen rock climber and ballerina as a child, Azkona started her career playing futsal for Gazte Berriak, a team based in Ansoain.[3] Following this, she spent a year at Ardoi before signing for Athletic Club aged 18.[4] On 13 January 2019, she scored her first league goal for Athletic, in the 94th minute of a match against Sporting de Huelva.[5][6] In the 2019–20 Primera División season, she provided more assists than any other Athletic player and signed a new three-year contract with the club at the end of that season.[7][8]

On 10 June 2020, it was announced that she had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee during a training session.[9] She returned from this injury over eight months later.[7] She became an increasingly important member of the team over the subsequent seasons as other players departed;[3] in March 2023 she agreed a new contract running to 2026.[10]

International career

Azkona was part of the Spain under-19 squad which won the 2017 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.[11][3] In October 2019, she was called up to the inaugural squad for España Promesas (essentially Spain B), along with two clubmates.[12][13] She made her full debut as a late substitute in a 2–0 friendly victory over the United States (played in her hometown Pamplona) in October 2022.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Ane Azkona at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Azkona". BDFutbol. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 David Menayo (22 September 2022). "Ane Azkona, la 'bailarina' que pide paso en la selección" [Ane Azkona, the 'ballerina' who asks for a place in the national team]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Grande, Juan Carlos (16 November 2019). "Ane Azkona: "Pedimos unos mínimos, tenemos que luchar por nuestros derechos"" [Ane Azkona: "We ask for a minimum, we have to fight for our rights"]. Noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Garnández, Beatriz (13 January 2019). "Ane Azkona: «Era cuestión de tiempo que entrase el primer gol»" [Ane Azkona: "It was a matter of time before the first goal went in"]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Athletic Club vs Sporting de Huelva". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. 1 2 González, Laura (23 February 2021). "Ane Azkona, disponible ocho meses y medio después" [Ane Azkona, available eight and a half months later]. El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  8. ↑ ""I knew I wanted to stay here"". Athletic Club. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Jiménez, Mayca (10 June 2020). "Ane Azkona se rompe el ligamento cruzado anterior" [Ane Azkona tears her anterior cruciate ligament]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  10. ↑ Carlos Zaballa (24 March 2023). ""Yo también me he subido a este barco"" ["I have also boarded this boat"]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  11. ↑ 2017 WU19 EURO results in full, UEFA.com, 20 August 2017
  12. ↑ Oroz, Azkona and Damaris, with the Spanish Promesas, Athletic Bilbao, 30 October 2019
  13. ↑ Oficial: La RFEF crea la Selección Absoluta Promesas, una nueva selección femenina de fútbol (Official: The RFEF creates the Absolute Promises Selection, a new women's team) Archived 15 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine, SEfutbol (in Spanish), 29 October 2019
  14. ↑ USWNT stunned by reserve Spain side amid protests, ESPN, 11 October 2022


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