David Karanka

Spanish footballer
David Karanka
Personal information
Full name David Karanka de la Hoz
Date of birth (1978-04-20) 20 April 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Vitoria, Spain
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1994–1997 Athletic Bilbao
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 Basconia 27 (15)
1998–2000 Bilbao Athletic 54 (17)
2000–2003 Athletic Bilbao 8 (1)
2000–2001 → Extremadura (loan) 39 (13)
2002–2003 → Murcia (loan) 36 (13)
2003–2005 Murcia 57 (8)
2005–2007 Sporting Gijón 40 (2)
2008 Real Unión 15 (3)
2008–2009 Sant Andreu 27 (5)
2009 Guijuelo 16 (1)
2010 Orihuela 11 (2)
2010–2013 Cieza 98 (62)
Total 428 (142)
International career
2003 Basque Country 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Karanka de la Hoz (born 20 April 1978) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

He made 39 La Liga appearances over three seasons, scoring eight goals for Athletic Bilbao and Murcia. He added 141 matches and 29 goals in the Segunda División, in a 16-year senior career.

Club career

Karanka was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava. The younger brother of Athletic Bilbao, Real Madrid and Colorado Rapids player Aitor Karanka,[1] he came up through the ranks of the Basque giants, and first appeared with the first team on 14 May 2000, playing 15 minutes in a 0–0 La Liga away draw against RCD Espanyol.[2]

After a loan stint to CF Extremadura in 2000–01, where he scored 13 Segunda División goals,[3] Karanka returned to Athletic, with virtually no impact (six games, although he scored once in a 3–2 thriller win at RC Celta de Vigo, as Bilbao trailed 0–2 with eight minutes remaining).[4][5] He subsequently returned to the second tier, helping Real Murcia achieve promotion in 2002–03 by netting 13 goals,[6] and adding seven in next season's top flight – already as a permanent player after having been bought outright for €180,000[7]– as the club returned to where it came from.[8]

After three years, Karanka was transferred to fellow league side Sporting de Gijón, where his form deteriorated, scoring only twice in 33 matches over two complete seasons. In January 2008 he joined Real Unión in Irun,[9] moving in August to another Segunda División B team, UE Sant Andreu.[10]

Karanka split the 2009–10 campaign between CD Guijuelo and Orihuela CF also in division three,[11] totalling just three goals. Aged 32, he dropped down to the Tercera División and signed for CD Cieza.[12]

Karanka went on to work as an assistant manager, starting out at Murcia then joining Nottingham Forest in July 2018.[13] At the second of those clubs and the next, Birmingham City also of the English Championship, he worked under his brother Aitor.[14]

Honours

Basconia

Murcia

References

  1. ^ 33 años no son nada (33 years is nothing); La Verdad, 4 October 2011 (in Spanish)
  2. ^ El aburrimiento esperado (Expected boredom); Mundo Deportivo, 15 May 2000 (in Spanish)
  3. ^ David Karanka jugará cedido en el Real Murcia (David Karanka will play on loan at Real Murcia); Diario AS, 4 August 2002 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Remontada espectacular del Athletic en Balaídos (Spectacular Athletic comeback at Balaídos); ABC, 12 November 2001 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ David Karanka desvela que Aitor puede volver a Bilbao (David Karanka reveals Aitor may return to Bilbao); Diario AS, 20 May 2002 (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Jesús Perera, Pichichi 2003 en Segunda (Jesús Perera, 2003 Pichichi in Segunda); Marca, 29 June 2003 (in Spanish)
  7. ^ David Karanka ya es del Murcia (David Karanka already belongs to Murcia); Mundo Deportivo, 15 July 2003 (in Spanish)
  8. ^ El Murcia sigue a la caza del gol (Murcia still hunting for goals); La Opinión de Murcia, 21 July 2013 (in Spanish)
  9. ^ David Karanka, un refuerzo de lujo para el Real Unión (David Karanka, deluxe signing for Real Unión); Diario AS, 12 January 2008 (in Spanish)
  10. ^ De Carlos, Rueda, Lorca y Jorge Sánchez, juntos en el Sant Andreu (De Carlos, Rueda, Lorca and Jorge Sánchez, together at Sant Andreu); La Verdad, 27 September 2008 (in Spanish)
  11. ^ Karanka, Francisco y Txopi ya están a las órdenes de Pato (Karanka, Francisco and Txopi already working under Pato); Diario Información, 4 February 2010 (in Spanish)
  12. ^ El Cieza ficha a David Karanka (Cieza sign David Karanka); La Verdad, 27 August 2010 (in Spanish)
  13. ^ David Karanka llega al Nottingham Forest tras abandonar el Real Murcia (David Karanka arrives at Nottingham Forest after leaving Real Murcia); La Opinión de Murcia, 13 July 2018 (in Spanish)
  14. ^ Birmingham City make four key signings ahead of the new season; Birmingham Mail, 20 August 2020
  15. ^ Un ascenso inolvidable en La Condomina (Unforgettable promotion at La Condomina); La Verdad, 26 May 2013 (in Spanish)

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