Felipe Monserrat

Felipe Monserrat was a Filipino sports administrator who served as president of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (PAAF) from 1968 to 1970.^[1][2]

Felipe Monserrat
5th President of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation
In office 1968–1970
Preceded by	Antonio de las Alas
Succeeded by	Ambrosio Padilla
President of the Philippine Football Association
In office 1962–1967
Personal details
Born	1922 or 1923
Died	(2018-10-18)October 18, 2018 (aged 95)

Career

Felipe Monserrat headed the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (PAAF). After leading the Philippine delegation for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, he succeeded Antonio de las Alas as PAAF president. He earned a fresh mandate after he was re-elected in 1970 but he resigned "out of frustration".^[2]

As president of the Association for the Advancement of Amateur Athletics lobbied the Congress for the passage of Republic Act No. 3135 which grants autonomy to national sports associations and decentralized the PAAF. The law was passed into law in 1962. The PAAF would later become the Philippine Olympic Committee after it was dissolved in 1974.^[3]

He was also the president of the Philippine Football Association for two terms serving from 1962 to 1967. Under his term, the Philippines would host the 1966 AFC Youth Championship. He was also convinced by sponsor San Miguel Corporation of Andrés Soriano to hire British coaches Alan Rogers and Brian Birch to handle the Philippine national team after a poor performance in the 1962 Asian Games.^[4]

Later life

He moved to the United States with his family in 1984 and stopped his involvement in Philippine sports due to "politics". Monserrat would die on October 18, 2018, in his residence in Los Angeles. He was married to Natividad Larena with whom he had five children.^[3]

References

1. "History of the Philippine Olympic Committee". Philippine Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
2. Henson, Joaquin (7 September 2008). "Monserrat breaks silence, decries politics in sports". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
3. Henson, Joaquin (24 October 2018). "Sports pillar dies in peace". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
4. Ramirez, Bert (2016). "Lookig Back (chapter author)". Philippine Football: Its Past, Its Future. By Villegas, Bernardo. University of Asia and the Pacific. p. 53. ISBN 978-621-8002-29-6.