Luis Francisco "Chitong" Lorenzo (died April 12, 1997), better known as "Moro" Lorenzo and also as Luis F. Lorenzo Sr., was a

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basketball player and corporate executive. Lorenzo played college basketball for the

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. The fabled Blue Eagle was the original one-hand set-shooter of Philippine basketball. The dusky cager from Zamboanga was the scoring ace of the Eagles who thrilled the NCAA crowd in the years 1947 to 1951. He moved on to play for Philippine Airlines in the

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. After his playing years, Lorenzo became manager of Del Monte Packing Corporation plantation in Bukidnon from 1964 to 1970. He was elected to the Constitutional Convention and by the 1970s, he was vice president of his company with offices at Makati, Rizal. Later on, he was also part of the

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that won the gold medal at the

1951 Asian Games The 1951 Asian Games ( hi, 1951 एशियाई खेल; Marathi: १९५१ आशियाई खेळ), officially known as the First Asian Games, was a multi-sport event celebrated in New Delhi, India from 4 to 11 March 1951. The Ga ...

. He was also the owner of the Pepsi Bottlers basketball team in the

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, and the chairman and president of Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. The Moro Lorenzo Sports Center inside the

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is named after him. Lorenzo married Dr. Alicia “Alice” Paez. His son, Luis P. Lorenzo Jr., is an influential Filipino businessman and politician, having served as Secretary of Agriculture and a presidential advisor.History of Philippine Agriculture on Department of Agriculture website
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Moro Lorenzo Sports Center
1997 deaths Ateneo Blue Eagles men's basketball players 20th-century Filipino businesspeople Philippine Basketball Association executives PepsiCo people Year of birth missing Asian Games medalists in basketball Basketball players at the 1951 Asian Games Philippines men's national basketball team players Filipino men's basketball players Asian Games gold medalists for the Philippines {{Philippines-basketball-bio-stub Medalists at the 1951 Asian Games