Plácido Álvarez-Buylla Lozana (5 April 1885 - 10 August 1938) was a Spanish
footballer
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, diplomat and politician, who was the
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in 1936. He reached the highest levels both in sports and professionally. As a young man, he played football at the clubs Oviedo FC in
Asturias,
Madrid FC
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and
Español de Madrid
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in
Madrid
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, and
Espanyol
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in
Barcelona
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, reaching
Copa del Rey
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finals with the latter three. As an older man, he had a successful political career, holding several important positions in the Spanish government, such as Minister of Industry and Commerce.
He had three brothers, Benito,
Plácido and
Adolfo, and the latter two also were footballers.
Early life
Buylla was born in
Asturias as the son of (
Adolfo A. Buylla, professor of Political Economy and president of the Ateneo de Madrid, and of Carmen Lozana de la Concha.
Buylla and his family used to spend the summer
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s in Salinas, where it is known that he and his brothers played football matches with the team from the town of Castrillón
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.[
]
Football career
Oviedo and Avilés
Buylla began to play football in 1900, at the age of 15, when he was induced to do so by a friend who had returned from England. Buylla played for his hometown club Oviedo FC, featuring alongside the illustrious professor of history, Rafael Altamira, then a professor at the University of Oviedo
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. He was also part of the very first teams in Ávila, such as ''Círculo Industrial y de Sport de Avilés'', with whom he played between 1908 and 1912.[
]
Madrid FC
All of the Buylla brothers played for Madrid FC, with each spending three years in the capital due to their legal university studies, and due to their family having settled there.[ When Plácido moved to Madrid in 1906 to continue his ]Law studies
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, he soon made friends, many of whom were members of Madrid FC and overnight he found himself enrolled in the white team where he came to share captaincy of the second team.[ He was a tall and strong man who performed very well in defensive tasks,][ so even though Madrid had the likes of ]José Berraondo
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, José Quirante, and Joaquín Yarza
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in its back-line, his physical attributes and well-built constitution earned him a position in the first team as either a midfielder
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or a defender, but mostly as the latter.[ On one occasion, on 28 February 1905, he even played as a ]goalkeeper
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in the third team against Athletic de Madrid due to a lack of players.[
His crowning moment in Madrid came on 5 January 1907 in an international match against Club Lisboa, where he played as a left center half.][ He obtained his doctorate at the University of Madrid in 1909.][
]
Español de Madrid
Despite some encouraging first steps in the white club, he followed the Giralt brothers (Armando Armando may refer to:
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and José
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) and Antonio Neyra when they decided to leave Madrid in 1907 to join its city rivals Español de Madrid
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,[ with whom he reached back-to-back Copa del Rey finals (]1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
and 1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
) which ended in losses to Club Ciclista
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and FC Barcelona
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, losing the latter despite a brace from his younger brother Vicente.
Espanyol
In 1910, the Giralt brothers, Neyra, and his younger brother Vicente left Español to join RCD Espanyol
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in Barcelona, and they once again proved their quality by reaching yet another cup final in 1911
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
, in which he started in a 3–1 loss to Athletic Bilbao
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. According to the ''Mundo Deportivo
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History and profile
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'' issue of 24 March 1910, the then 24-year-old Buylla was a right back of 79 kilos in weight and 1,83 meters tall, and he was described as being "without a doubt one of the best players on the spanyolteam".
His football career came to an end with the arrival of the First World War
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and the paralysis of the sport in Spain.[ His time as a footballer naturally served his political life since being part of a team acquires a habit of discipline that is absolutely necessary for politics.][
]
Diplomatic career
In 1914 he managed to be pensioned by the Board for the Expansion of Studies, which allowed him to expand his knowledge of Law at the universities of Berlin
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, Munich
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, and Vienna
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, becoming a professor at the University of Work in the Belgian town of Charleroi
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, Bremen
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, Tangier
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, and Frankfurt
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.[ In 1924 he was awarded the ]Order of St. Gregory the Great
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by the Vatican.
With the arrival of the Second Spanish Republic
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in 1931, he was appointed special commissioner and ''chargé d'affaires'' in Paris
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, and then returned to Tangier before making the leap to Geneva.[ In October 1933 he was appointed general director of the ]Spanish protectorate in Morocco
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and in 1934 undersecretary of the Presidency of the Government of Alejandro Lerroux.[ After a brief stay at the ]Lisbon
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consulate, on 19 February 1936, he was appointed Minister of Industry and Commerce A Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry or variations is a ministry that is concerned with a nation's trade, industry and commerce.
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in the governments of Manuel Azaña
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, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Diego Martínez Barrio, and José Giral.[ When the Popular Front won the February 1936 elections, he was appointed the Minister of Industry and Commerce, a position he held for a few months until 4 September of the same year when the first government of Francisco Largo Caballero was formed.][
During the ]Spanish Civil War
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, Buylla was appointed consul general of the Republic in Dublin
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and then Gibraltar
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, a position he held until 20 February 1938 when he became the consul of France
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, where he died in Paris in 1938.[
]
Honours
Club
Madrid FC
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* Centro Championship:
**Champions (1): 1906–07
*Copa del Rey
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:
**Champions (1): 1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
Español de Madrid
Español may refer to:
*from or pertaining to Spain
*Spanish language
*Spanish people
*Djudeo-Espanyol or Judaeo-Spanish, a language spoken by Jews
*Argant, an ancient variety of red wine grape alternatively named Espagnol
*RCD Espanyol
*Club Soci ...
*Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
:
**Runner-up (2): 1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Januar ...
and 1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
RCD Espanyol
Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; "Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona"), commonly known as Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Barcelona, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish football league sy ...
*Copa del Rey
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:
**Runner-up (1): 1911
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
See also
* List of Real Madrid CF players
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References
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1885 births
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Footballers from Oviedo
Real Madrid CF players
RCD Espanyol footballers
1938 deaths