Armando Muñoz Calero

Born on 15 February 1908 in Águilas, Murcia.[1][2] A trained physician, he worked in Lorca for a time.

A hardline falangist who held the post of FET y de las JONS' national's inspector of health,[3][4] Muñoz Calero joined the Blue Division siding with the nazis to fight the Soviet Union in the Eastern Front of World War II.[4] He served as front-line surgeon in the division's medical corps.[3] From 15 February 1943 to 14 January 1946 he presided over the managing committee (comisión gestora) that controlled the Provincial Deputation of Madrid.[5] He chaired the [Organización Médica Colegial from 1945 to 1946.[2]

He was a member of the Francoist Cortes between 1946 and 1952 and between 1955 and 1958 (in his capacity as National Chief of the Obra Sindical "18 de Julio") and from 1964 to 1971 (as member of the National Council of the Movement).[6][7][8][9][10][11] He became the president of the Spanish Football Federation on 20 May 1947.[12] He left the later office in 1950 and was replaced by Manuel Valdés Larrañaga.[13]

He would go on to hold the vice-presidency of the Atlético de Madrid in the 1960s.[2] He died on 8 November 1978 in Madrid.[14]

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