Aitor López Rekarte
Personal information
Full name	Aitor López Rekarte
Date of birth	August 18, 1975 (1975-08-18) (age 34)
Place of birth	Mondragón, Spain
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Full back
Club information
Current club	Free agent
Youth career
1989–1994	Real Sociedad
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994–1997 1997–2007 2007–2008 2009	Real Sociedad B Real Sociedad UD Almería SD Eibar	102 (2) 316 (4) 010 (0) 011 (0)
National team
1993 1997–1998 1997 2004	Spain U17 Spain U21 Spain U23 Spain	003 (0) 006 (0) 003 (0) 001 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 August 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Aitor López Rekarte, known as López Rekarte or just Rekarte (born 18 August 1975 in Mondragón, Basque Country), is a Spanish footballer currently without a club.

He plays as a defender on the right side, and sporadically on the other flank.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Honours 4 Personal 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Club career

López Rekarte played a decade for the Basque side of Real Sociedad, with over 400 overall appearances with the first team. After being promoted to the first team for 1997–98, he immediately became the undisputed starter, with his worse ouptut consisting of 26 appearances, during his second professional season.

In that first campaign, as Real finished third, Rekarte spent most of the season at left back, as habitual starter Agustín Aranzábal suffered a long injury lay-off. Eventually, he also became team captain, only missing one league match in 2002–03, for a final runner-up place.

On July 2007, López Rekarte switched to newly promoted UD Almería, but appeared scarcely throughout the season as the Andalusia team overachieved, being subsequently released.

On March 18, 2009, he joined second level side SD Eibar, in a deal until the end of the season.^[1]

[edit] International career

López Rekarte had one appearance for Spain, in a September 2004 friendly against Scotland in Valencia (1–1).

Previously, he helped the nation's U21s win the 1998 European Championship.

[edit] Honours

Spain U21

• European Under-21 Championship: 1998

[edit] Personal

López Rekarte is the younger brother of another professional footballer, Luis María, whom also played for Real Sociedad, also being a right-back. He gained four international caps, all in 1988.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• BDFutbol profile
• National team data (Spanish)

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