Lucio del Álamo Urrutia

Lucio del Álamo Urrutia (2 March 1913 – 27 June 1988) was a Spanish footballer, journalist, writer, and politician. He played as a defender for Athletic Bilbao and Real Valladolid in the early 1930s, but he is best known for his work as a journalist, director of various media outlets, and also a representative in the Francoist Cortes.

Early life, family and education

Del Álamo was born on 2 March 1913 in the Álava. Del Álamo studied Philosophy and Literature in Deusto and in Valladolid, and journalism at the El Debate school.

Career Football Del Álamo began playing football while at the Colegio de los Jesuitas in Orduña, where he met and played with Alfonso Aparicio, who later played for Atlético Madrid. In his youth, he played for Amurrio Club in the early 1930s, from where he joined Athletic Bilbao, featuring in only two friendly matches in the 1931–32 season, one as a starter and one as a substitute, but both ending in victories, over Real Betis (5–1) and Castellón (8–0). He played the following season with Real Valladolid, and then retired from playing in 1933, aged only 20.

Journalism In 1934, del Álamo joined in Bilbao as an editor. His first term as president was uneventful, but his second brought dramatic professional moments in which the Press Association had to face problems, such as the closure of the newspaper "Madrid" by the government in 1971, a war for the journalistic profession against the academic authorities who were putting obstacles in the way of the validation of the degrees of the old Official School of Journalism and the years of work for the university degrees awarded by the recently created , and also the first journalists' strike after the war in defence of professional secrecy (February 1976). Charlas de España, Los Gibraltareños económicos, and El último muerto de la Guerra de España (1944).

Works Charlas del Sábado (1941) Charlas de España Los Gibraltareños económicos El último muerto de la Guerra de España (1944)