Maddi Torre returns to Athletic Club

Athletic Club and Maddi Torre have reached an agreement for the player borned in San Sebastian and grown in Sopela to wear the red and white colours until 30 June 2026. Center back or defensive midfielder, she returns to Lezama, where she trained for six seasons and won the Superliga title (2015/16) in the campaign she spent with the first team. Maddi arrives with her release from Real Sociedad, where she has played for the last five years and has become one of their captains. 
 
After 82 games as a Txuriurdin, in addition to the 13 she played for Athletic Club, Maddi Torre arrives at Lezama to bring experience and character to the defensive area, where the Zurigorri team has suffered the loss of players. A fifth-year medical student, she grew up at Bizkerre before joining Lezama, from where she left at the end of the 2015/16 campaign to spend a year at Santa Teresa from Badajoz and another at Real Betis before joining Zubieta. 
 
Maddi Torre, who has signed her new contract togetehr with the president, Jon Uriarte, has expressed her delight at returning to Athletic Club. Seven years later, she has become an experienced and versatile player. In her first words as a red-and-white player, she stresses that she faces her second spell as a Lioness with "a lot of enthusiasm" and considers that "there is no better time to return to Athletic, to give continuity to a dream that I was once able to make come true."

Now, the physiognomy of the squad has changed compared to her previous stay, Maddi Torre herself has become one of the most experienced players in the competition. 

"I've gone from having been in a dressing room with veteran players, very experienced and the best in their time, as happened in my previous period, to being with players who have just come through the ranks, who have a lot of talent and ambition to be able to stand out at the Club.

I'm going to try to contribute as much as I can, to help the younger players with my experience."