Andoni Iraola

Andoni Iraola Sagarna (Usúrbil, Guipúzcoa, June 22, 1982) is a Spanish former footballer and coach who manages AFC Bournemouth of the Premier League.

As a footballer, he played mainly as a right back for the First Division Athletic Club between 2003 and 2015 and, in 2016, he finished his career at New York City F.C. of the MLS alongside David Villa, Andrea Pirlo and Frank Lampard. In 2017 he began his career as a coach in the Antiguoko youth ranks.

Career

Old koko

He trained in the youth ranks of the Antiguoko KE in San Sebastián until he arrived at the youth Athletic Club in 1999, thanks to the agreement between Athletic Club and the San Sebastián club. During his stay at the Gipuzkoan club, he was a teammate of players like Aritz Aduriz, Xabi Alonso and Mikel Arteta.

Athletic Club

In 2003 he became part of the Athletic Club first team, coached by Ernesto Valverde, after two years at Bilbao Athletic. He debuted in the First Division on August 30, 2003, in the match Athletic 0-1 F. C. Barcelona. In his first season he played 30 League games and scored five goals. Soon, he became one of the best passers on the team along with Fran Yeste and a regular player in all lineups.In addition, in the first part of his career he scored quite a few goals. On February 19, 2005, he scored the second goal in the victory (0-2) at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, against Real Madrid. On January 22, 2006, he tied the game at three in injury time, played at Anoeta, against Real Sociedad. At certain times he was used as an interior player, and even as a midfielder in the 2006-2007 season. On January 28, 2007, in the midst of the fight to avoid relegation, he scored both goals in the victory (0- 2) against Real Sociedad. On January 4, 2009 he scored a bicycle kick goal against RCD Espanyol. In this first stage of his career he played in the Cup and Super Cup finals in 2009.

One of his best seasons was the 2011-2012 campaign, where he formed, together with Markel Susaeta, a high-level right wing that allowed Athletic to reach the finals of the Europa League and Copa del Rey. His best play came in San Mamés, against Manchester United in the second leg of the round of 16, where he dribbled past three players with great skill, although his shot was not a goal. On the other hand, on March 6, 2012, against Valencia, suffered the only expulsion of his career. On September 16, 2013, he scored the winning goal against Celta, in the first game played at the new San Mamés. In his last season with the team, Ernesto Valverde He began to use him from the bench, with Óscar De Marcos being the regular starter.

On March 1, 2015, Iraola played his 500th match with Athletic against SD Eibar, at the Ipurúa stadium, in a match corresponding to the 25th matchday of the First Division. A few days later, he was honored for this fact in a League match held in San Mamés against Real Madrid (which Athletic won 1-0) and José Ángel Iribar gave him a commemorative shirt for his 500 games. In his last game with Athletic Club in San Mamés, corresponding to the last day of the 2014/15 League against Villarreal (4-0), he managed to score the second goal of the game after refusing to take a penalty minutes before. His last game It was the Cup final against FC Barcelona, the third final in six years, which ended in defeat (3-1). Thus, the player from Guipuzcoa became the fourth player in the history of Athletic who has played the most games with the club, with 510 games, behind Iribar (614), Txetxu Rojo (541) and Joseba Etxeberria (514).

New York City F.C.

At the end of March, Iraola rejected the renewal offer that Athletic presented him and confirmed that he would not continue in the club, since his idea was to go to the United States to play in the MLS, thus following the example of other footballers such as David Villa or the former red and white Aitor Karanka. During his American journey he acted as a defensive midfielder, forming a high-level midfield alongside Andrea Pirlo and Frank Lampard. Finally, on November 17, 2016, he announced his retirement from the playing fields after playing 40 games with the New York team.

As a coach

He began his career as a youth coach for Antiguoko for the 2017-18 season.

AEK Larnaca

In May 2018 he took charge of AEK Larnaca, thanks to the presence of a former teammate like Ander Murillo, signing a two-season contract. In his first games he managed to qualify the team for the group stage of the Europa League 2018-19, for the second time in its history, by clearly beating Dundalk (4-0), Sturm Graz (7-0) and AS Trenčín (4-1) in the previous qualifiers. On September 29, it achieved its first title by beating APOEL in the penalty shootout of the Cyprus Super Cup final. On January 14, 2019, after a bad streak of results, he was dismissed from his position.

CD Mirandés

On July 10, 2019, he signed his contract as the new coach of CD Mirandés, which had just been promoted to the Second Division. With the rojillo team, he managed to reach the Copa del Rey semifinals for the second time in its history. They eliminated three First Division clubs: Celta de Vigo (2-1), Sevilla FC (3-1) in the round of 16 and Villareal CF (4-2) in the quarterfinals, until they were eliminated in the semifinals by Real Sociedad by a 3-1 aggregate. On July 21, he announced that he would not continue in the rojillo club, after having finished in eleventh position with 56 points.

Rayo Vallecano

On August 6, 2020, his signing as the new coach of Rayo Vallecano was confirmed. On June 20, 2021, he achieved promotion to the First Division, after coming back in the play off against Girona (2-3 on aggregate)..

On February 2, 2022, he put Rayo in the Copa del Rey semifinals 40 years after his first time, later losing against Betis.

On May 19, 2022, it was confirmed that he would continue one more season at Rayo, despite having had a somewhat poor Second Round due to the achievements achieved in the First Round and in the Copa del Rey.

AFC Bournemouth

On June 19, 2023, after ending his contract with Rayo Vallecano, he would sign with AFC Bournemouth of the Premier League for the next 2 seasons with the aim of keeping the team in the highest category of English football.

National team

On November 19, 2003 he played his only U-21 international match in a match against Sweden.

Iraola made his debut with the Spanish team, on August 20, 2008, with coach Vicente Del Bosque in his first match as Spain coach, in a friendly match against Denmark. On October 11, 2008 he played his first match official with La Roja, against Estonia, replacing Sergio Ramos in the 53rd minute. He was not called up again until October 2009, where he played his first game as a starter against Bosnia (2-5). His next calls date back to November 2009. 2009, three consecutive calls between March and August 2011 and the last one in February 2012.

He could not be called up for Euro 2012 due to pubalgia.

Basque Country Team

He played nine friendly matches with the Euskadi national team between 2003 and 2013.

Clubs

As a player

Club	Country	Year
Ancientko	SpainSpain	1991-1999
Athletic Youth Club		1999-2000
C.D. Basconia		2000-2001
Bilbao Athletic		2001-2003
Athletic Club		2003-2015
New York City F.C.	United States	2015-2016

As a coach

Club	Country	Year
AEK Larnaca	CyprusCyprus	2018-2019
CD Mirandés	SpainSpain	2019-2020
Rayo Vallecano		2020-2023
AFC Bournemouth	EnglandEngland	2023-Act.

Statistics

Clubs

Updated on November 17, 2016.

Club	Div.	Season	League		Cup		Supercopa		Europe		Total
			Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles	Part.	Goles
C.D. Basconia SpainSpain	3. a	2000/01	35	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	35	4
	Total club		35	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	35	4
Bilbao Athletic SpainSpain	2.aB	2001/02	38	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	38	5
		2002/03	37	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	37	10
	Total club		75	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	75	15
Athletic Club SpainSpain	1. a	2003/04	30	5	1	0	-	-	-	-	31	5
		2004/05	34	4	7	1	-	-	8	1	49	6
		2005/06	38	3	4	0	-	-	-	-	42	3
		2006/07	35	5	2	0	-	-	-	-	37	5
		2007/08	36	1	5	1	-	-	-	-	41	2
		2008/09	33	6	8	0	-	-	-	-	41	6
		2009/10	37	2	2	0	2	0	11	0	52	2
		2010/11	37	4	4	0	-	-	-	-	41	4
		2011/12	35	1	9	0	-	-	15	0	59	1
		2012/13	35	0	1	0	-	-	7	1	43	1
		2013/14	34	1	6	0	-	-	-	-	40	1
		2014/15	22	1	6	0	-	-	5	1	33	2
	Total club		406	33	56	2	2	0	46	3	510	38
New York City F.C. United States	1. a	2015	9	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	0
		2016	31	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	31	0
	Total club		40	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	40	0
Total career			556	52	56	2	2	0	46	3	660	57

As a coach

Updated according to the last party led 7 October 2023.

Equipment	Div.	Season	League						Cup					International						Other					Totals
			Part.	G	E	P	Pos.		Part.	G	E	P		Part.	G	E	P	Pos.		Part.	G	E	P		Part.	G	E	P	Performance	GF	GC	Dif.
AEK Larnaca CyprusCyprus	1. a	2018-19	16	7	4	5	Inc.		-	-	-	-		12	5	4	3	FG		1	0	1	0		29	12	9	8	51.72%	44	28	+16
	Total		16	7	4	5	-		-	-	-	-		12	5	4	3	-		1	0	1	0		29	12	9	8	51.72%	44	28	+16
Mirandés SpainSpain	2. a	2019-20	42	13	17	12	11.		7	5	0	2		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-		49	18	17	14	48.29%	73	72	+1
	Total		42	13	17	12	-		7	5	0	2		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-		49	18	17	14	48.29%	73	72	+1
Rayo Vallecano SpainSpain	2. a	2020-21	42	19	10	13	6.o		4	3	0	1		-	-	-	-	-		4	3	0	1		50	25	10	15	56.67%	69	48	+21
	1. a	2021-22	38	11	9	18	12.		7	4	2	1		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-		45	15	11	19	41.48%	49	56	-7
		2022-23	38	13	10	15	11.		3	1	1	1		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-		41	14	11	16	42.28%	48	56	-8
	Total		118	43	29	46	-		14	8	3	3		-	-	-	-	-		4	3	0	1		136	54	32	50	47.55%	166	160	+6
AFC Bournemouth EnglandEngland	1. a	2023-24	8	0	3	5	-		2	2	0	0		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-		10	2	3	5	30%	10	20	-10
	Total		8	0	3	5	-		2	2	0	0		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-		10	2	3	5	30%	10	20	-10
Total in your career			184	63	53	68	-		23	15	3	5		12	5	4	3	-		5	3	1	1		224	86	61	77	47.47%	293	280	+13
↑ Includes King's Cup, FA Cup and EFL Cup ↑ Includes UEFA European League ↑ Includes Cyprus Super Cup and Play-Off Ascenso LaLiga

Summary by competitions

Updated according to the last party led 7 October 2023.

Palmarés

As a coach

National Championships

Title	Club	Country	Year
Cyprus Super Cup	AEK Larnaca	CyprusCyprus	2018