page_title: Gaizka Toquero
section_title: Athletic Bilbao
hierarchical_section_title: Gaizka Toquero / Club career / Athletic Bilbao
caption_attribution_description: Español: Gaizka Toquero, jugador del Athletic Club.
context_page_description: Gaizka Toquero Pinedo is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mainly as a right winger.
  He spent most of his career with Athletic Bilbao, appearing in 207 competitive matches during seven La Liga seasons and scoring 24 goals, and becoming a fan favourite for his endeavour.
context_section_description: After 15 matches in 2008–09's second level, Toquero was recalled by Athletic on 4 January 2009, making his La Liga debut six days later by appearing as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 home draw against RCD Espanyol. He scored his first goal for the team on 4 March in a 3–0 home win in the Copa del Rey over Sevilla FC (4–2 on aggregate) which qualified Athletic for the final: there, he opened the scoring, albeit in a 1–4 loss to FC Barcelona.
  Blessed with few technical skills but a tremendous hard-worker – which earned him the affectionate nickname of Lehendakari– in 2009–10 Toquero blossomed into a first division player. He started most of the campaign as an attacking complement to Fernando Llorente, and also found the net on several occasions, notably a double against Real Valladolid on 7 March 2010 in a 2–0 home success.
  Toquero once again was a regular starter for Athletic during 2010–11, opening his official goal account on 30 January 2011 by netting twice in a 2–0 win at Atlético Madrid. At the end of the following season, he came off the bench in both the UEFA Europa League and the Spanish Cup finals, both of which ended in 0–3 defeats; in October 2012 he renewed his contract, due to expire in June 2013, for three more years.
  Toquero made one substitute appearance in the 2014–15 edition of the UEFA Champions League, in a 1–2 group stage away loss against FC BATE Borisov. His last game for the club (less than 50 minutes of action during the campaign) was in the dying moments of a 1–0 league win over Real Madrid, on 7 May 2015.
caption: Toquero in action for Athletic Bilbao in 2011.
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