Ander Herrera has won trophies with some of the world's biggest clubs, but there is space in the midfielder's cabinet reserved for accolades that will resonate closer to home.
After winning the FA Cup and Europa League with Manchester United and multiple league and cup titles with Paris Saint-Germain, Herrera will play in Saturday's Copa del Rey final, which Athletic Bilbao have been waiting for for 40 years. He now has a chance to contribute to winning a big trophy.
For the city where he was born and for his father, a lifelong fan who represented the club but never made it to the first team, beating Mallorca in Seville would spark wild celebrations.
“He played over 200 games in the First Division but couldn't come here,” Herrera told BBC Sport. “That would have been his dream because this is his club and the club he was a fan of as a child.”
Another midfielder, Pedro, came from the youth ranks, but Athletic was the dominant team in Spanish football at the time, so he made his break at Erandio, Salamanca, Real Zaragoza and Celta Vigo instead.
By the time Ander became interested in soccer, his father was working as the general manager of Zaragoza.
The young Herrera fell in love with soccer there, going to the stadium after practice and hanging out with the players. He made his professional debut and joined Athletic for the first time in 2011.
“I'm still a Real Zaragoza fan, but I respect this club for the way Athletic fights and respects the organization,” Herrera added.
“What I really like about this club, and what I would like my club to have more of, is an identity. Everyone feels a part of it. With the fans going to the stadium, Even I feel part of this club.”
“He would have wanted to play in the first team and I was able to achieve that. So he is very proud of me too. If we can achieve something important this season, he will I’m very happy.”
As well as watching Zaragoza whenever he can, the 34-year-old also watches United, a club he will “love forever”, and PSG, which has allowed him to “play with some of the best players in the history of football”.
But when it comes to clubs' role in society, he says Athletic, with its Basque-only policy, is “the most important”.
“There are people who have been season ticket holders all their lives, but they don't watch any other games, they only watch Athletic. It's very different,” he says.
“What I really love about this region and our people is that we love what we do and what we have, even though it's probably not the best in the world. Even though we know that, we love it more than anything.”
Herrera played under Ernesto Valverde in his first and final season at San Mamés, helping them qualify for the Champions League.
Both have since moved elsewhere, with Herrera going to United and PSG, and Valverde to Barcelona, but they are back together again and have a chance to break into Europe's elite competition and finish fifth in La Liga. I got it.
“We are doing great. For me, Ernesto is one of the best coaches in the world because he adapts to the qualities of the team and is very smart,” Herrera said.
“In the first period here, we didn't have as much speed as we do now, so we had a more controlled team, controlled the game more, played more possession, positional football.
“Now, with the players we have, he finds more space and plays what I call rock'n'roll football, an attacking attack where you try to tire out the opposition and give them time to recover and breathe. We’re finding more teams.”
So will Herrera follow him into the dugout?
“As you get older in football, we think about it,” he says. “I’m only 34, I still have the energy to keep playing and I love football, but of course I start thinking about the next chapter.
“I'm definitely going to continue playing football because it's my life, it's my passion and I love football and I love what I do. But where I go… I don't know.
“If you look at coaches and managers, it's very hard and sometimes it's very unfair, the job they do. They put in great performances every week, they work, they prepare everything, they put in the work all week. They prepare for the game, and even after they hit the game, they're out if they don't post and score.
“That's why I'm not sold on becoming a coach one day, because I think it's a very unfair job. As they say in Spanish, I won't close that door, but who knows? .”