page_title: Xiker
section_title: Spain national youth teams
hierarchical_section_title: Xiker / International career / Spain national youth teams
caption_attribution_description: English: Xiker, captain of Spain in SBS Cup in Japan.
context_page_description: Xiker Ozerinjauregi Mendikoetxea, known as Xiker, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central defender.
  Xiker began his footballing career in 2007 when he joined the academy of Athletic Bilbao. He progressed through the club's youth and reserve sides over the course of the next nine years before being halted by a serious injury. Following his recovery he spent a season each at Segunda División B clubs Toledo and Peña Sport before joining Real Sociedad B in 2018. The following year, he signed for Cornellà before signing for Betis six months later.
  Xiker is also a former Spanish youth international and represented Spain at various youth levels between 2013 and 2015.
context_section_description: Xiker is a former Spanish youth international and represented the nation at all levels from the U16s to the U19s between 2013 and 2015. In 2015, he was part of the Spain U18 squad which won the Atlantic Cup after beating Portugal, Costa Rica and the Canary Islands. Later that year, he was included in Spain's preliminary squad for the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Greece. He was one of six players cut from the final squad, however, as Spain went on to claim their seventh title in the competition.
caption: Xiker (right) captained the Spain U18 side at the SBS Cup in Japan in 2015.
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