Joaquín Loyzaga Sr.

Personal information
Date of birth	(1890-07-12)July 12, 1890
Place of birth	Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines
Date of death	July 4, 1935(1935-07-04) (aged 44)
Place of death	Philippine Islands
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1913–1917	Philippines
Medal record  Philippines Far Eastern Championship Games 1913 Manila Team 1915 Shanghai Team 1917 Tokyo Team

Joaquín Loyzaga Sr.^[1] (born Joaquín de Loyzaga Martínez; July 12, 1890 – July 4, 1935) was a Filipino international footballer who has played in the Far Eastern Championship Games, the precursor of the Asian Games.

Loyzaga has played for the Philippines national football team in three editions of the Far Eastern Championship Games from 1913^[2] to 1917. In the 1917 Games, he helped the national team win 15–2 over Japan.^[3]

He was born to José Antonio Eugenio de Loyzaga y Ageo, a wealthy criollo businessman and sixth-generation member of landed Old Manila gentry, and María de la Luz Martínez Vial, a middle-class criolla. He was married to María del Carmen Matute y Sequera, who herself was a well-to-do ninth-generation criolla. He is the father of Carlos Loyzaga who was a very well-known as a basketball player.^[4] The younger Loyzaga was initially involved in football.^[1]

At the inaugural Manila Youth Games in 2002, plagues of recognition of select athletes from Manila, including Loyzaga, were presented.^[5]

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