Maite Oroz
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Maite Oroz Areta | ||
| Date of birth | 25 March 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Huarte, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Athletic Bilbao | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004–2010 | Huarte | ||
| 2010–2013 | Osasuna | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2014 | Osasuna | ||
| 2014–2015 | Athletic Bilbao B | 23 | (10) |
| 2015– | Athletic Bilbao | 86 | (8) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2013[2][3] | Spain U16 | ||
| 2013–2015 | Spain U17 | 13 | (4) |
| 2016–2017 | Spain U19 | 16 | (8) |
| 2016–2018 | Spain U20 | 9 | (0) |
| 2017– | Basque Country | 1 | (0) |
| 2017– | Navarre | 1 | (0) |
|
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 01:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 01:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC) | |||
Maite Oroz Areta (born 25 March 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Athletic Bilbao as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Huarte, Navarre, Oroz began playing football with boys in the village team CD Huarte from the age of 6,[2] joining the youth system at Osasuna in nearby Pamplona aged 12. From that early age, she was marked out as a promising talent due to her skill on the ball, creativity and confidence.[2][3] She played with Osasuna's senior team for a season in the Segunda División before the women's section of the club was disbanded in 2014, leading her to join Athletic Bilbao.[4]
Following a year with the club's B-team,[2] she made her senior team debut in September 2015 and became a regular from then on, making 30 appearances in the 2015–16 Primera División as Athletic finished as champions. She played and scored in the subsequent 2016–17 UEFA Champions League,[5] but the club did not progress beyond the opening knockout round.
In September 2018, Oroz sustained a serious injury, rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament of her left knee during a league match against Atlético Madrid[6] (one of several such injuries suffered by players in Athletic's various teams over a short period)[7] which ruled her out for the entire 2018–19 season.[8]
International career
Oroz was involved with Spanish national age-group teams at several levels and with much success, being a member of the under-17 squad that claimed the bronze medal at the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship,[3] silver at the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and gold at the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship;[2] the under-19 squad which reached the final of the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship then won the 2017 tournament; and the under-20 squad who were runners-up at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup[9], having also been involved in the 2016 edition.[1]
In October 2019, she was called up to the inaugural squad for España Promesas (essentially Spain B), along with two clubmates.[10][11]
She has also played for the unofficial Basque Country and Navarre representative teams, making her debut for both in 2017.[12][13]
References
- ^ a b Maite Oroz, Soccerway
- ^ a b c d e Maite Oroz, la nueva perla de Lezama [Maite Oroz, Lezama's new pearl], La Liga, 21 April 2016 (in Spanish)
- ^ a b c Maite Oroz: "Representar a España es una responsabilidad" [Maite Oroz: "Representing Spain is a responsibility"], Diario AS, 13 March 2014 (in Spanish)
- ^ "Desaparece Osasuna femenino" [Osasuna women disappears]. Vavel (in Spanish). 7 June 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Minimum lead for the second leg in Denmark, Athletic Bilbao, 5 October 2016
- ^ Injury of Maite Oroz: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), Athletic Bilbao, 24 September 2018
- ^ Las roturas de LCA son ya una epidemia [ACL tears are becoming an epidemic], Marca, 25 September 2018 (in Spanish)
- ^ Medical report of the women’s team, Athletic Bilbao, 16 April 2019
- ^ Japan cruise to maiden world title, FIFA, 24 August 2018
- ^ Oroz, Azkona and Damaris, with the Spanish Promesas, Athletic Bilbao, 30 October 2019
- ^ 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), SEfutbol (in Spanish), 29 October 2019
- ^ Euskal Selekzioa 2–1 Chequia, Basque Football Federation, 25 November 2017 (in Basque)
- ^ Navarra 1-3 Catalunya; Bon regal de Nadal (Navarre 1-3 Catalonia; fine present for Christmas), FutFem.cat, 22 December 2017 (in Catalan)