Maite Oroz

Maite Oroz Areta (born 25 March 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Athletic Bilbao as a midfielder.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Oroz and the second or maternal family name is Areta.
Maite Oroz
Personal information
Full name Maite Oroz Areta
Date of birth (1998-03-25) 25 March 1998
Place of birth Huarte, Spain
Height 1.56 m (5 ft 1 1⁄2 in)[1]
Playing position(s) Midfielder
Club 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)
National team‡
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)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 01:51, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

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
  1. Maite Oroz, Soccerway
  2. Maite Oroz, la nueva perla de Lezama [Maite Oroz, Lezama's new pearl], La Liga, 21 April 2016 (in Spanish)
  3. Maite Oroz: "Representar a España es una responsabilidad" [Maite Oroz: "Representing Spain is a responsibility"], Diario AS, 13 March 2014 (in Spanish)
  4. "Desaparece Osasuna femenino" [Osasuna women disappears]. Vavel (in Spanish). 7 June 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  5. Minimum lead for the second leg in Denmark, Athletic Bilbao, 5 October 2016
  6. Injury of Maite Oroz: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), Athletic Bilbao, 24 September 2018
  7. Las roturas de LCA son ya una epidemia [ACL tears are becoming an epidemic], Marca, 25 September 2018 (in Spanish)
  8. Medical report of the women’s team, Athletic Bilbao, 16 April 2019
  9. Japan cruise to maiden world title, FIFA, 24 August 2018
  10. Oroz, Azkona and Damaris, with the Spanish Promesas, Athletic Bilbao, 30 October 2019
  11. 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
  12. Euskal Selekzioa 2–1 Chequia, Basque Football Federation, 25 November 2017 (in Basque)
  13. Navarra 1-3 Catalunya; Bon regal de Nadal (Navarre 1-3 Catalonia; fine present for Christmas), FutFem.cat, 22 December 2017 (in Catalan)
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