Unai lopez He landed in Lezama in the summer of 2011, with 16 years and the international poster. After his last year in the Cadet Royal Society, a category in which he came to Zubieta from the Antiguoko, he began his career as an rojiblanco in Juvenil B. Later, he climbed the ladder of Juvenil A, Basconia and Bilbao Athletic until he reached the first team.
In 2011, the director of realistic grassroots football when the departure of Unai lopez He was the former rojiblanco footballer Bittor Alkiza. He was not amused. “How it will sit, it doesn't feel good. These types of situations are not pleasant, especially when you think he is an important player with the potential to take steps. In the end there are clubs interested, and increasingly and with less age, in wanting to move the players, to function like that. Then, although there is much talk about the quarry of both teams … It is not pleasant “, he complained then.
Alkiza, who denied that they were going to launch a counterattack in Lezama, stressed that “there are clubs in which in principle they talk a lot about what they have at home but, at the first exchange, if they can fish in the house next door or in someone else's, it's the first thing they do ”.
Barça option
But the one who was Lezama's technical director, Fernando Quintanilla placeholder image, revealed that the player and those around him had decided to sign for Barça if they did not reach an agreement with the Bilbao club: “Athletic has not made a single move to sign him, the player himself expressed his desire to sign for the team because, otherwise, he would go to Barça, who wanted him ”.