Yuri Berchiche

Yuri Berchiche
Berchiche with Real Sociedad in 2014
Personal information
Full name Yuri Berchiche Izeta[1]
Date of birth (1990-02-10) 10 February 1990 (age 34)[2]
Place of birth Zarautz, Spain[2]
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
Athletic Bilbao
Number 17
Youth career
2000–2004 Antiguoko[3]
2004–2005 Real Sociedad
2005–2007 Athletic Bilbao
2007–2009 Tottenham Hotspur
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2010 Tottenham Hotspur 0 (0)
2009Cheltenham Town (loan) 7 (0)
2009–2010Valladolid B (loan) 25 (0)
2009Valladolid (loan) 1 (0)
2010–2012 Real Unión 45 (1)
2012–2017 Real Sociedad 77 (3)
2012–2014Eibar (loan) 67 (7)
2017–2018 Paris Saint-Germain 22 (2)
2018– Athletic Bilbao 170 (10)
International career
2006 Spain U17 6 (0)
2014– Basque Country 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:15, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:30, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Yuri Berchiche Izeta (born 10 February 1990) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Athletic Bilbao.

He began his senior career at Tottenham Hotspur without making a first-team appearance, being loaned to Cheltenham Town and Real Valladolid. In 2010, he joined Real Unión in the Segunda División, moving on to Real Sociedad who loaned him two years to Eibar, where he won two successive promotions, later spending three seasons in La Liga with Real, leading to him being signed by Paris Saint-Germain in 2017; he played a part in a treble-winning season in France, but transferred back to the Basque region with Athletic Bilbao in 2018.

  1. ^ a b "Yuri". Diario AS. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Yuri Berchiche". Eurosport. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Jugadores relevantes" [Relevant players] (in Spanish). Antiguoko KE. Retrieved 16 July 2017.