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1. He has one appearance in the senior team of Spain, in a 0:2 victory over Armenia in a friendly match in April 1995.
2. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics he was part of the team that reached the quarter-finals after three victories in the group stage, but was eliminated following a 4:0 defeat to Hernan Crespo's Argentina , Ariel Ortega and Javier Santi.
3. A few weeks before that Olympics, he and Spain's youth team were crowned European under-21 champions after losing to Italy on penalties.
Karanka played in this tournament only in the semi-finals: 90 minutes in 1:2 against Scotland.
4. Oscar Garcia scored the first goal in that 1:2 against Scotland.
Karanka coached against quite a few exes of Maccabi Tel Aviv, but as a player he cooperated with only one: Oscar with whom he played seven times in the youth teams of Spain.
5. He has 275 appearances in La Liga (93 at Real Madrid, 182 at Athletic Bilbao) and 33 in the Champions League.
33 appearances in the Champions League.
Cranka in front of Giovani Alber (Photo: GettyImages, Clive Brunskill)
6. In 1998, a problem with his heart was discovered that caused him to return for a long time, and even after he returned to training, he was barely included in the squad.
In fact, he missed a year less a day in the Spanish league;
Played in Real Madrid's 4:3 over Tenerife on 21.2.1998 and returned in a 1:0 loss to Bilbao on 20.2.1999.
364 days.
7. The actors he collaborated with the most times are real legends.
In first place Raul (131 games), in second place Roberto Carlos (122 games) and in third place Jolan Guerrero (113 games).
8. Throughout his career he scored only four goals, all in the Athletic Bilbao uniform.
One in the 1996/97 season and two more in 2002/03 - one of them against Yossi Benyon's Racing Santander.
9. Despite playing in a defensive role and making 381 team appearances in all competitions, he only received two red cards in his career.
One of them is direct red and the other after two yellows.
The two suspensions were when he played for Athletic Bilbao.
10. He played under legends such as Jupp Heynckes, Jos Hiddink and Vicente del Bosque and at Athletic Bilbao he spent quite a while with ex-Beitar Jerusalem and the Israel national team, Luis Fernandez.
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11. Jupp Heynckes was a key figure in his career.
He is the one who gave him a debut in the first team of Athletic Bilbao in the league in 1994 and he is the one who made sure to attach him to Real Madrid in 1997 for about 6 million euros.
12. His brother David, who is five years younger than him, was a footballer himself, but the two never collaborated.
When Aitor returned from Real Madrid to Bilbao in the summer of 2002, David had just moved to Real Murcia.
13. He collaborated with Dedi Ben Dayan in the Colorado Rapids - the team where he finished his career.
The two will meet again at Maccabi Tel Aviv, where Ben Dayan serves as the coach of the youth team.
14. His biggest league loss as a Real Madrid player has an indirect connection to Israel: a 5:1 defeat to Celta Vigo and Chaim Rabivo (74 minutes) in 1999, a game after which they wrote in "El Mundo": "Christian Crumbeau and Aitor Karanka showed that they have no place at Real Madrid".
15. On the official website of Real Madrid, he is defined to this day as "a serious stopper who doesn't do nonsense with a spectacular trophy cabinet".
Well of course, this is what his list of titles looks like in 5 years of service in the white uniform: 1 Spanish Championship, 3 Champions League Cups, 2 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Team World Cup.
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