Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla

Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla Lozana (28 February 1897 - 1945) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender for Athletic Madrid, Racing de Madrid and Zaragoza CD.[1][2] Born in Asturias to a Spanish sociologist, pedagogue, jurist and professor of Krausism influence (Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla senior), he is the younger of three brothers, Benito, Plácido and Vicente, with the latter two also being footballers.[3]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Álvarez-Buylla and the second or maternal family name is Lozana.
Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla
Personal information
Full name Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla Lozana
Date of birth (1897-02-28)28 February 1897
Place of birth Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Date of death 1945 (48 age)
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1914–1917 Athletic Club de Madrid
1917–1919 Racing de Madrid
1919–1927 Zaragoza CD
International career
1917 Madrid 2 (0)
Medal record
 Madrid
Prince of Asturias Cup
Gold medal – first place1917 Prince of Asturias CupTeam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Biography

He began his career with Athletic Madrid in 1914, at the age of 17, playing with them for three years until he signed for Racing de Madrid in 1917, helping them win the 1918–19 Centro Championship, but the highlight of his footballing career came in the 1917 Prince of Asturias Cup, an inter-regional competition organized by the RFEF, in which he participated as a member of the Madrid national team,[4] starting in two games as Madrid won their first-ever title in the competition, but this almost didn't happen as initially Buylla was not even in the radar of the dirigents to be called up for the Madrid team, but because the tournament coincided with the 1917 Copa del Rey Final between Madrid FC and Arenas, which prevented them from having the best players of Madrid FC, thus the "second options" (mainly players of Athletic Madrid and Racing de Madrid) got a chance to prove their worth at the tournament, and they did exactly that by winning what the "first options" had failed to.[5]

Honours

Club

Racing de Madrid

International
Madrid XI

References
  1. "Buylla (Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla Lozana)". www.infoatleti.es. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  2. "Adolfo Álvarez-Buylla Lozana - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  3. "El frondoso árbol de los Álvarez-Buylla" [The leafy tree of the Alvarez-Buylla]. www.lne.es (in Spanish). 23 October 2011. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  4. "Squad of Cataluña 1917 Copa del Príncipe de Asturias". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  5. Vicente Martínez Calatrava (17 August 2009). "La Copa Príncipe de Asturias" [The Prince of Asturias Cup] (in Spanish). CIHEFE. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
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