Julián Olave

Julián Eustasio Olave Videa (29 March 1884 – 2 April 1932) was a Spanish sports leader who presided over the Spanish Football Federation between 1924 and 1926 and also a football Manager who co-directed one match of the Spanish national team in 1924. As the president of the RFEF, he signed the Declaration of Professionalism in 1924 and its implementation in 1926, and he was also the first Spaniard to join the FIFA Committee in 1925.

Biography Although born on 29 March 1884 in Bilbao, his sporting career began in 1910, as technical secretary of the Real Sociedad, since he had his automobile representation business in the city of San Sebastián. He was elected secretary of this entity, and as such, when FIFA did not accept the coexistence of two federations, he signed a letter to FECF proposing to reach a merger agreement between the two federations. An agreement was eventually reached in September, with the basis for unification being signed by the presidents of the two entities in dispute, Olave and Ricardo Ruiz Ferry. In those years of so much turmoil within Spanish football, Olave was a figure of enormous relief and importance. In March 1927, he was invited to become the president of the federation again, but he instead offered to serve Spanish football in a lower step than the one he had occupied a few months before, thus being reconstituted as treasurer. In 1928, he had no hesitation in coming to the aid of the then president, Pedro Díez de Rivera y Figueroa, to put order in the federation finances.

Death Olave died in Madrid on 2 April 1932, at the age of 48.