The center-back returns to his club of origin as he does not count for Patxi Salinas. Aritz Pascual will arrive from the Sestao River shortly
Xabi Arberas (6-4-2000), central defender of Bilbao Athletic, reinforces the defense of Gernika, his home club, to prop up the team captained by Óscar Vales that plays in the Second RFEF. It is the first official movement that is fulfilled within the rojiblanco subsidiary in this month of January with several latent operations in the offices. Among others, Sestao River forward Aritz Pascual, a 1999 vintage, is about to return to Lezama. He has scored 8 goals in 16 games with the Left Bank team and was already a young rojiblanco from his native Berango. Striker Andoni Tascón could also go out on loan to Las Llanas, although it is not such a clear turn at the moment in such a sensitive position in the Salinas team.
Arberas, between the injuries and that has hardly counted neither for Imanol de la Sota nor for the current manager of Bilbao Athletic, Patxi Salinas. He has only played a few minutes in this First RFEF, and last year also a single game under Joseba Etxeberria. The competition in the central axis has been fierce with Paredes, Jaso, Sillero and Lorente. In his journey in the second reserve team, Arberas was a pillar in Basconia as a regular starter and scoring six goals in two campaigns. Arberas, 21, landed in Lezama in the 2012-13 campaign from Gernika to join Athletic’s Infantil A. On his return home to Urbieta, he underpins the Vales team, which is fighting to get into the playoff for promotion to the First RFEF. Three players on loan from Basconia play at Gernika, such as the midfielder Eneko Delgado, the central defender Iker San Vicente and the goalkeeper Ibon Ispizua, who are working hard in order to refresh Bilbao Athletic in the summer.
Right now, after 18 days, the regional team is fourth in the table with 28 points, only behind Real Sociedad C, Osasuna Promesas and Racing Rioja, being the best Biscayan representative of the category ahead of Sestao River and Arenas, although the getxotarras with three games less due to the happy cases of coronavirus. Arberas will have the competition of Berasaluze, Arana, Jon Iru, converted to center back, and Iker San Vicente himself. He will make his debut against Peña Sport in Navarre the next day, which takes place the following week, with the desire to assert himself as a central defender with workmanship.
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