Gerenabarrena, Malcom and Luis Bilbao join Athletic’s preseason
Athletic will start its preseason tomorrow with the first training session of the summer at 10:00 in Lezama and will do so with some new face. The club has made public this afternoon the list of soccer players from the subsidiary who will exercise under the orders of Ernest Valverde. Specifically, they will be midfielder Beñat Gerenabarrena and attackers Malcom Adu Ares and Luis Bilbao.
The three receive the award after congealing last year a more than interesting championship final in the Athletic Bilbaoto which they promoted with the season already started after the dismissal of Imanol de la Sota and the bet for Patxi Salinas for the affiliate. The now technician Portugalete bet blindly on the three footballers, whom they knew first-hand after having directed them in the Basconia.
In addition, central defender Aitor Paredes made his second preseason after being quoted a year ago by Marcelino Garcia Toral who summoned him on numerous occasions to complete the first team training sessions during the campaign.
THREE GOALKEEPERS
Another novelty has to do with the presence of up to three goalkeepers from the lower categories of the club, who have been summoned by Valverde to cover the absences of Unai Simón and Julen Agirrezabala, who will join the group shortly after having extended the season due to different international commitments. In this way, Ander Iru, Alex Padilla and Ibon Ispizua will start training tomorrow along with the rest of the members of the first team, among those who will be Imanol Garcia from Albeniz, who completes a very good campaign in the ranks of the Mirandese, where you made a loan.
Of whom the club has not offered any details, it belongs to Inigo Vicente and Inigo Cordoba, who were also transferred last year and who did not enter the plans of Valverde. Thus, it is unknown if they will wear shorts tomorrow or not start training until they find a new destination.