Born in Ondarroa, Biscay, Basque Country, Arrizabalaga joined Athletic Bilbao’s youth setup at Lezama in 2004, aged ten. He made his senior debut with the farm team in January 2012, in Tercera División.

On 5 May 2012, Arrizabalaga was called up to the main squad for a La Liga match against Getafe CF, but remained unused in the 0–0 draw at the San Mamés Stadium.

He made his debut for the B-side on 16 February 2013, keeping a clean sheet in a 1–0 win over UD Logroñés for the Segunda División B championship.

Arrizabalaga appeared regularly for the B’s before he was loaned to Segunda División’s SD Ponferradina until June.

He finally made his professional debut on the 11th, starting in a 1–1 home draw against Racing de Santander.

On 20 July 2015, Arrizabalaga moved to Real Valladolid also in the second tier, in a season-long loan deal, where he played his first competitive game.

The loan deal served him well when he returned to Atheltic Bilbao in 2016 and became their first-choice goalkeeper in Ernesto Valverde’s final year in charge. The current Barcelona coach awarded him his debut in La Liga away to Deportivo La Coruna and was soon praising his “great maturity” in the role.

“He has some things that he knows he has to improve,” said Valverde later that season, after Kepa had helped Athletic qualify for Europe. “But he is a goalkeeper with good reflexes, a great presence and a great confidence that he transmits to others.” In November 2017, he duly made his senior debut for Spain in a 5-0 win over Costa Rica.

On 22 January 2018, amidst heavy transfer speculation linking him to Real Madrid, Arrizabalaga renewed his contract – due to expire in June – until 2025.

In the early hours of August 8, 2018, news circulated in the media that Kepa was set to join Chelsea after the English side activated his release clause.

Chelsea agreed to pay a world record £71 million to sign Athletic Bilbao’s goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.

With Courtois trying to force a move to Real Madrid by going, the blues have taken drastic action by paying Kepa’s Athletic Bilbao buy-out clause ahead of Thursday’s Premier League transfer deadline.

The deal which has been greeted by widespread astonishment would eclipse the £66.8m Liverpool paid Roma to make Alisson Becker the world’s most expensive goalkeeper in July.

Source: http://kikiotolu.com/biography-kepa-arrizabalaga-net-worth-chelsea/

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