Ion Andoni Goikoetxea

Andoni Goikoetxea

Goikoetxea in 2010
Personal information
Full name Ion Andoni Goikoetxea Lasa
Date of birth (1965-10-21) 21 October 1965
Place of birth Pamplona, Spain
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Midfielder / Forward
Youth career
Osasuna
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1988 Osasuna 95 (19)
1988–1994 Barcelona 126 (6)
1988–1990 → Real Sociedad (loan) 74 (10)
1994–1997 Athletic Bilbao 92 (1)
1998 Yokohama Marinos 23 (0)
1998–1999 Osasuna 17 (0)
Total 427 (36)
National team
1985 Spain U19 1 (0)
1985 Spain U20 5 (1)
1985–1988 Spain U21 12 (2)
1987 Spain U23 1 (0)
1990–1996 Spain 36 (4)
Teams managed
2005–2006 Osasuna B (assistant)
2006–2008 Osasuna (assistant)
2009–2010 Xerez (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Ion Andoni Goikoetxea Lasa (born 21 October 1965) is a Spanish retired footballer.

An attacking player of wide range, he operated in various positions on the right side of the pitch (right back, midfielder or forward), and was best known for his FC Barcelona spell, during the club's Dream Team years.[1][2]

Having amassed La Liga totals of 386 games and 36 goals over the course of 13 seasons, Goikoetxea appeared for Spain at the 1994 World Cup.

Club career

A product of hometown's CA Osasuna's youth ranks, Goikoetxea was born in Pamplona, and he first appeared in La Liga two days shy of his 20th birthday, in a 0–2 away loss against Celta de Vigo. An automatic first-choice from early on, he scored a career-best 11 goals in the 1987–88 season, as the Navarrese finished fifth.

Subsequently, Goiko moved to league giants FC Barcelona, but was immediately loaned for two years to Osasuna's neighbours Real Sociedad where he would only missed two league games in two seasons combined, achieving another fifth place in his second.

In 1990–91, Goikoetxea arrived at Camp Nou, joining several other Basque players, including Txiki Begiristain, Julio Salinas and José Mari Bakero. These would help form the backbone of the legendary Dream Team, winning four league titles in a row, with the addition of the club's first European Cup (where he appeared in the second half of the 1–0 win over U.C. Sampdoria).

Goikoetxea played 37 matches in his first season with Barça, being voted the Spanish Footballer of the Year by Don Balón magazine.[3] In the 1994 summer he joined another Basque side, Athletic Bilbao, amassing nearly a further 100 top flight appearances in three years.

Goikoetxea retired in 1999 after a brief spell with Japan's Yokohama F. Marinos – where he again teamed up with Salinas – and a return to Osasuna, now in the second division. Six years later he started his coaching career, always under former Osasuna and Athletic teammate José Ángel Ziganda; the pair worked at newly promoted Xerez CD during the 2009–10 campaign, leaving in early 2010 due to poor results.[4]

International career

Goikoetxea played 36 times for the Spanish national team during six years, representing the country at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.[5] His debut came on 12 September 1990, in a 3–0 friendly win over Brazil.[6]

During the 1994 competition in the United States, Goiko appeared in all the matches, scoring twice in two draws against South Korea (2–2) and Germany (1–1), his misplaced crossing attempt catching goalkeeper Bodo Illgner off-guard in the latter game.[7][8]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 17 June 1994 Cotton Bowl, Dallas, United States  South Korea 0–2 2–2 1994 FIFA World Cup
2. 21 June 1994 Soldier Field, Chicago, United States  Germany 0–1 1–1 1994 FIFA World Cup
3. 30 November 1994 La Rosaleda, Málaga, Spain  Finland 2–0 2–0 Friendly
4. 26 April 1995 Hrazdan, Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 0–2 0–2 Euro 1996 qualifying

Career statistics

Club

[9]

Club performance League
Season Club League Apps Goals
Spain League
1985–86OsasunaLa Liga201
1986–87387
1987–883611
1988–89Real SociedadLa Liga386
1989–90364
1990–91BarcelonaLa Liga373
1991–92320
1992–93293
1993–94280
1994–95Athletic BilbaoLa Liga281
1995–96330
1996–97310
Japan League
1998Yokohama MarinosJ1 League230
Country Spain 38636
Japan 230
Total 40936

International

[5]

Spain
YearAppsGoals
199040
199150
199250
199350
1994113
199551
199610
Total364

Honours

Club

Barcelona

International

Spain U20

References

  1. ↑ De atacante a lateral, una reconversión recurrente (From forward to fullback, recurrent reconversion); Mundo Deportivo, 15 October 2015 (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ How Johan Cruyff reinvented modern football at Barcelona; FourFourTwo, 22 October 2015
  3. ↑ Spain – Footballer of the Year; at RSSSF
  4. ↑ El Xerez destituye al 'Cuco' Ziganda (Xerez sacks 'Cuco' Ziganda); 20 Minutos, 12 January 2010 (in Spanish)
  5. 1 2 Jon Andoni Goikoetxea Lasa – International Appearances; at RSSSF
  6. ↑ Entrenamiento con tres golazos (Training with three wonder goals); Mundo Deportivo, 13 September 1990 (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ World Cup '94; Up 2–0 with only 10 men, Spain must settle for a tie; The New York Times, 18 June 1994
  8. ↑ World Cup '94; A lot of creative work went into makings of tie; The New York Times, 22 June 1994
  9. ↑ "Jon Andoni Goikoetxea". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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