David 'Kily' Álvarez Aguirre (born 5 February 1984) is a former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as either a right-back or a

right midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. Born in Spain, he played for the Equatorial Guinea national team. He spent his entire career in Spain, but never in higher than

Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second Division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Foot ...

. Kily represented

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...

at the

2012 Africa Cup of Nations The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football ( ...

Early life

Kily was born in

Avilés Avilés (; ) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias. The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged to the sea, ...

, Asturias, Spain to a Spanish mother and an Equatoguinean father, never knowing the latter.La hazaña de Kily (Kily's exploit)
La Nueva España, 27 January 2012

Club career

After finishing his youth career with the club, Kily started playing with

Real Oviedo Real Oviedo is a Spanish football club based in Oviedo, Asturias. Founded on 26 March 1926 as a result of the merger of two clubs who had maintained a large sporting rivalry for years in the city: ''Real Stadium Club Ovetense'' and ''Real Club De ...

, having the honour of scoring its first-ever goal in Tercera División. He spent his entire career in the Spanish lower leagues, also representing UP Langreo (two spells), Atlético Madrid B, Orihuela CF,

Novelda CF Novelda Club de Fútbol is a football club based in Novelda, in the Valencian Community in Spain. The Spanish football team was founded in 1925. For the 2022-23 season it plays in the Regional Preferente – Group 4 (the sixth level) holding hom ...

Marino de Luanco Club Marino de Luanco is a Spanish football team based in Luanco, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1931 it plays in Segunda División RFEF – Group 1, holding home games at '' Estadio Miramar'', with a capacity of 3,500 seats. ...

, SD Noja,

CD Cudillero Club Deportivo Cudillero was a Spanish football team based in Cudillero, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1950 and refounded in 2002, it held its home games at '' Estadio La Roja'', which has a capacity of 2,000 spectators. H ...

and

L'Entregu CF L'Entregu Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in El Entrego in the autonomous community of Asturias. History L'Entregu CF was founded in 1997, as an heir to both UD El Entrego and El Entrego CD. After several seasons in Regional Div ...

. In 2018, Kily helped La Madalena de Morcín CF to their first promotion ever to the fourth level.

International career

Kily made his debut for

in 2007. He was selected in the squad that appeared at the

on home soil, where on 25 January he scored arguably the country's most important goal, netting in the 90th minute for a 2–1 group stage win against Senegal, which meant the hosts qualified to the quarter-finals at the expense of their opponents.Kily, el delantero de Tercera que se ha erigido en el héroe de Guinea (Kily, forward in ''Tercera'' who has risen to hero in Guinea)
Marca, 26 January 2012

International goals

:''Scores and results show Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first. Score column gives score after Alvarez's goal.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarez, Kily 1984 births Living people Footballers from Avilés Spanish sportspeople of Equatoguinean descent Equatoguinean people of Spanish descent Equatoguinean people of Asturian descent Spanish men's footballers Equatoguinean men's footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders Segunda División B players Tercera División players Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players Real Oviedo players UP Langreo footballers Atlético Madrid B players Orihuela CF players Novelda CF players Marino de Luanco footballers Equatorial Guinea men's international footballers International sportspeople born abroad 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players 20th-century Spanish people 21st-century Spanish people 21st-century Equatoguinean people