Bochini and Zietz, Winners of the 2022 One-Club Man/Woman Awards

The Argentinian Ricardo Enrique Bochini and the German Jennifer Zietz have been awarded the 2022 One-Club Man/Woman Awards.

Athletic Club gives the award to former players who spent their entire professional career at just one team, thus representing values held dear at our club.

What’s more, fans returning to stadiums means we can revive the tradition of handing the awards to the recipients in front of a full San Mamés.

Bochini, 68 years old, is Club Atlético Independiente‘s great icon and for a long time, until the arrival of Diego Armando Maradona and Leo Messi, he was considered the best no. ’10’ in the history of Argentinian football.

However, unlike those two stars, ‘El Bocha’ spent his whole playing career at just one team, the Argentinian ‘Red Devils’. With seven trophies, no other club has won the Copa Libertadores more often than the side from Avellaneda.

Added to that, this will not be the former player’s first visit to San Mamés, he actually played at The Cathedral on August 20 1985 in a friendly against Athletic. Although the match ended in a goalless draw, Bochini’s quality was clear of all to see.

Bochini, who stood out above all as a great passer of the ball, was the driving force behind Independiente’s golden era in the 1970s and he was also a World Cup winner with Argentina in 1986. He retired in 1991 at the age of 37 after a 20-season long career which included 714 appearances, 108 goals and more than 200 assists.

He is the seventh winner of the One-Club Man Award and the first South American to be honoured. Previous recipients include Matt Le Tissier, Paolo Maldini, Sepp Maier, Carles Puyol, Billy McNeill and Ryan Giggs.

Germany’s Jennifer Zietz, 38, will receive the 2022 One-Club Woman Award in recognition of her brilliant professional career at 1. FCC Turbine, a historic women’s football club from Potsdam near Berlin.

Jennifer is the third female player to win the award, following in the footsteps of Sweden’s Malin Möstrom and Germany’s Pia Wunderlich.

With 332 appearances and 97 goals, Zietz is the side’s longest-serving player, having been there for a total of 17 seasons from 1998 until 2015.

Zietz and Turbine have achieved everything there is to win at club level: two Champions Leagues, six Bundesligas and three domestic cups (Pokal) and the former midfielder also won the European Championship with Germany in 2009 .