Vicente Álvarez-Buylla Lozana

Vicente Álvarez-Buylla Lozana (4 March 1890 - 27 November 1969) was a Spanish footballer, diplomat and writer. He reached the highest levels both in sports and professionally. As a young man, he played football at the clubs Stadium Avilesino in Asturias, Madrid FC and Español de Madrid in Madrid, and Espanyol in Barcelona, playing a Copa del Rey final with the latter. As an older man, he had a successful diplomatic career, holding several important positions in the Spanish government, including consul in Cuba and the United Kingdom.

He had three brothers, Benito, Plácido and Adolfo, with the first two also being writers and the latter two being 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 summers in Salinas, where it is known that he and his brothers played football matches with the team from the town of Castrillón. As a member of the first team of the Sport Club, he won the Second Prize in the National Championship organized by Santander FC.

In 1910, the Giralt brothers, Neyra, and his older brother Plácido left Español to join RCD Espanyol in Barcelona, and they once again proved their quality by reaching yet another cup final in 1911, although this time he did not play in the final, which ended in a 3–1 loss to Athletic Bilbao.

According to the Mundo Deportivo issue of 24 March 1910, the then 19-year-old Buylla was an inside left of 73 kilos in weight and 1,78 meters tall.

In the early 1920s, Buylla was appointed consul in Cuba. In 1928 he left the diplomatic career and returned to Spain, where he was appointed secretary of the Energy Council. and at the end of the war, he remained in exile, becoming the president of Acción Republicana in Great Britain.

Death Buylla died on 27 November 1969, at the age of 79. One of his sons, Manuel, lives in Venezuela, and the other, Pedro, formed the English branch of the family that resides in Guifford, United Kingdom.

Works La Pintura contemporánea en España (Matanzas, 1922) Economía y legislación extranjera acerca de energía hidroeléctrica, líneas y redes (Madrid, 1932)