Athletic DNA (100 % local)
We are the elite football team that competes only with local footballers.
FOLLOW
SOMETHING
UNIQUE
A club that plays in Europe with a 100 % local squad.
Pride you can’t buy, only belong to.
manifesto
All teams dream of the same thing: WINNING.
But victory is a goal that only one team reaches in every match, in every championship.
Winning is very difficult; the easy thing to do is losing.
That's why in football, more and more, the end justifies the means;
who cares about the way, if the only thing that matters is the result?
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But if you like the sport, you know that the way counts.
The union between the fans and the team counts. The sense of belonging of those who represent you on the pitch counts. Identity counts.
Because winning is wonderful, but WINNING THE WAY ATHLETIC CLUB WINS is something else.
SOMETHING UNIQUE.
Those who love football, know it.
Those who know us, understand it. And those who dare to go their own path feel it.
Truths that
make us unique
Lezama
Here dreams are trained, grow, improve... and come true.
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History
127 years without losing the essence.
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Squad
A club, a people, a way of cheering.
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Those who know us
understand it
"We have an advantage over the others, we are Athletic."
Ernesto Valverde
First team coach
"I take my hat off to a club that defends values and self-pride that are hard to find in today's football."
Samuel Eto'o
Ex-footballer
"The Basque people and the Basque players were crazy. It was wonderful, like a family. I felt very comfortable there."
Jupp Heynckes
Former footballer and former coach
"You fall in love with the way they play so cleanly, with the fans who help you to win every game, to press high. It's very much in line with my way of understanding the game."
Pep Guardiola
Former footballer and coach
"This aspect of training, the concern for human development with the person and also the training program for coaches parallel to the training of players ... I have been in many places, I have seen many things, but what I have seen here, what you do here is worth knowing to improve all the processes."
Mauro Silva
Ex-footballer
"The way you have been working for many years is really different from anything else in the world."
Paulinho
Ex-footballer
"The truth is that Athletic's fans are extraordinary, the way they encourage and follow the team so that they can overcome the bad moments. This is an extraordinary stadium. It is something great what you see from Buenos Aires when you watch these matches. This makes this team great because of the people, they are fans of the club."
Enrique Bochini
Ex-footballer
"I take my hat off to a club that defends values and self-pride that are hard to find in today's football."
Carles Puyol
Ex-footballer
Get closer to something
that football has forgotten
In any collective game, the team is more important than the individual, just as a constellation is much more than the sum of its stars.
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