During World War II, he opposed and fought the Imperial Japanese Army as he joined a guerrilla led by Juan Miguel Elizalde.

[1][2] Virgilio Lobregat was born in Murcia, Spain on 23 May 1901 but stayed there shortly as his family took him and moved to the Philippine Islands in 1904.

During his school years he demonstrated early signs that he was already a phenomenal athlete succeeding in multiple sports and became the nucleus of the champion teams that La Salle turned out to be in that decade.

Lobregat, still in his teenage years, became part of the Bohemian Sporting Club where he spent most of his football career at and was one of the most important component of the team that dominated the late 1910s and 1920s.

Lobregat was also part of the Philippines national team at the 1919 and 1925 Far Eastern Games capturing, both times, a silver medal.

[3] Lobregat, throughout his life, was mostly known for his incredible athleticism while playing various sports but he also displayed true heroism and patriotism during the war.