page_title: Basque football derbies
section_title: Players and managers
hierarchical_section_title: Basque football derbies / Background / Players and managers
caption_attribution_description: Gaizka Toquero.
context_page_description: The term Basque derbies refers to the various local derbies between the football teams based in the Basque Country, Spain. This can also include the province of Navarre outside of the autonomous community. It specifically refers to individual matches between the teams, but can also be used to describe the general ongoing rivalry between the clubs and fans.
context_section_description: The canteras (youth academies) of Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad have been analysed as being among the most productive in Europe, with the vast majority of the players originating from the Basque region (population approximately three million). By contrast, Alavés and Eibar have used few locals in their periods of relative success due to there being an insufficient number Basque players of the required quality – almost all who show potential at a young age are recruited by the larger duo; over the decades there is a regular pattern of Alavés losing emerging talent to Athletic, including Zubizarreta, Estíbariz, Karanka, de Marcos and Vesga.
  in the modern era, no player has appeared for the first team of all four clubs in the league, although several have featured for three, including José Félix Guerrero, Xabier Castillo, Gaizka Toquero, Gaizka Garitano, Yuri Berchiche, Borja Viguera, Jon Moya, plzJoseba Arriaga, Luis Prieto, Edu Alonso, Luciano Iturrino, Ricardo Arrien, Xabier Guruzeta, César and Josu Sarriegi. Toquero and Garitano were also youth players at the fourth club, and the latter was the manager who led Eibar from the third tier to the first in consecutive seasons between 2012 and 2014. In 2019, Garitano (now head coach of Athletic) faced up to Eibar with three former Armeros players, all signed the previous summer, in his team: Berchiche, Dani García and Ander Capa.
  No coaches have taken charge of all four clubs, but Rafael Iriondo, José María Amorrortu and Baltasar Albéniz managed three (Albéniz also coached Osasuna).
caption: Gaizka Toquero played for several clubs in the region as well as the Basque representative team, seen here
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