A decade of bronze at Urritxe

Who was going to tell the Amorebieta he 29 of may of 2011 that would chain ten consecutive seasons in Segunda B. It was the date on which he sealed his first promotion to the bronze category. He did it after staying first of the Basque group of Third and after passing over Manacor in the championship tie, with Alfonso
Barasoain on the bench. Urritxe since then it does not know any other category than the Second
B. And it is at the gates of the tenth campaign in a row.

Modesty and success are not at odds. You just have to adjust the sights of each club and in the zornotzarra entity they have always been quite clear. Throughout the blue fief, classics such as Miranda, Ponferradina, Eibar, Alaves, Leganes, Huesca, Real
Madrid
Castile, Albacete, Oviedo or Racing. Many of them even knelt before the Amorebieta.

The Biscayan ensemble has had few figures and many workers on the green: Mikel
Muniozguren, Ibai
Gonzalez, Jon
Larreategi, Iñaki
Garmendia, Edu
Ubis, Igor
Etxebarrieta… Its dock It has been occupied by illustrious ex-lions like Aitor
Larrazabal or Joseba
Etxeberria. And now Inigo
Velez
of
Mendizabal, renewed in May, is on the way to becoming the coach who has directed the Amorebieta in Second B.

It all started on August 21, 2011. The first bronze date of the zornotzarras was in Burgos. Robert
caves went down in club history by signing the final 0-1 at El Plantío. It was only the beginning, Those led by Axier
Intxaurraga finished rooms and they disputed the playoff promotion to Second. They had on the ropes to the Balompedic
LinenseHowever, they fell at the first exchange. He Amorebieta He touched success in 12-13, although he finished sixth.

Economic problems came in 2017

In the next three courses moved into the middle zone, without undue haste to maintain the category. Something that has always been the priority objective every time a project started. Economic problems came in 2017. The blues saw each other With the water up to the neck also in the sporting field, but they reacted by winning seven of the last ten goals and sealed their salvation.

Inigo
Velez took the reins in the summer of 2018 In his first experience in Second B. It was difficult to start, he reached the league league in descent, but took flight until the end of the season in eighth
position. And in this recent unfinished exercise, more of the same. He Amorebieta I arrive sixth
to the
stop, ready to fight for the playoff. Only the pandemic could prevent it.

If those of Urritxe they have one Thorn
nailed in this successful journey it is with the cup. They have contested it in six editions and in five they lost in the first round. They only advanced in the 16-17, when they reached the third tie. They were one to cross with one of the greats of First. Will they remove this bitter aftertaste next season?