Virgilio Lobregat
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| Born |
23 May 1901 Spain |
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| Died | 30 August 1944 (aged 43) Manila, Philippines |
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Association football career
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| Allegiance |
 Philippine Commonwealth
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| Years of service | Until 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Battles/wars | Japanese occupation of the Philippines (World War II) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Center Forward | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| – | Bohemian | ||
| – | Manila Nomads | ||
| – | Casino Español | ||
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| 1925 | Philippines | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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Virgilio Lobregat (born 23 May 1901) was a Filipino sportsman who is best known as a football player. He competed for the Philippines national football team at the Far Eastern Games.
Lobregat was born in Spain on May 23, 1901 and moved with his family to the Philippine Islands in 1904.
Lobregat first attended the La Salle Nozaleda in second grade. He graduated from high school in La Salle in 1918.
Lobregat is often regarded as the best Filipino player in the pre-World War II period after Paulino Alcántara. He played for the Bohemians helping the club win the National Open Championship five times. He was still in his teenage years when he first became part of the club. He also played for the Manila Nomads and Casino Español de Manila, and later for the Philippines national team at the 1925 Far Eastern Games.
Aside from football he also played basketball as a 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) center and played baseball as well as a home run batter. He was also a track and field athlete and competed as a long distance runner and high jumper. He also won the pentathlon and decathlon events during the initial years of the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Federation.
Lobregat became a member of the De La Salle Alumni Association in 1920 and served as its president from 1930 to 1932 At some point in his life he would become the Vice President of the Elizalde Group of Companies, a post he would serve until his death.
He fought the Japanese during World War II as a guerrilla under Juan Miguel Elizalde. Lobregat also served as a spy. He was detained at Fort Santiago by the Japanese as a prisoner of war and was executed on August 1944. by firing squad along with Elizalde and 70 other prisoners at the Manila North Cemetery. According to his grave also at the same cemetery, Lobregat died on August 30, 1944.
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