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Fufi Santori was born on 7 May, 1932 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, is a Puerto Rican basketball player and coach. Discover Fufi Santori's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 7 May, 1932
Birthday 7 May
Birthplace Santurce, Puerto Rico
Date of death 2 April, 2018
Died Place Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
Nationality Puerto Rican

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Fufi Santori Net Worth

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1930

Santori was later chosen as the 30th best player in Puerto Rican basketball history by a BSN voting panel.

Santori's popularity kept growing after he retired from the game.

1932

José Santori Coll (May 7, 1932 – April 2, 2018) was a Puerto Rican basketball player and coach.

1948

With this scoring title he stopped Raúl "Tinajón" Feliciano's five year streak as the BSN Scoring Champion from 1948 to 1952.

That same year, Santori won the BSN Most Valuable Player Award.

1951

Santori made his debut in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) in 1951 with the Cangrejeros de Santurce.

That season he was chosen as the BSN Rookie of the Year after averaging 17.85 points per game.

1952

In 1952 he started playing for the Gallitos de la UPR, a team that played for both BSN league and the LAI league at that moment.

1953

In 1953 he became the BSN Scoring Champion with 28.3 points per game.

1954

In 1954 he had a second stint with the Cangrejeros de Santurce and a year later Santori joined the BSN's Capitanes de Arecibo, where he gained fame across Puerto Rico as one of the better known professional basketball players of the 1950s and 1960s.

1959

He was one of the players that helped Arecibo to become the only team to go undefeated the entire season when the Capitanes won the 1959 BSN national title.

1960

An avid sports fan, Santori was also a member of the Puerto Rican Olympic Basketball Team that participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

He was a tennis player and coach.

1963

He also played for the Rio Piedras squad, winning two scoring titles there, in 1963 and 1968.

1982

In 1982, he joined Manolo Rivera Morales as television broadcasters during WAPA-TV's transmissions of BSN games.

1984

In 1984, and taking into consideration his knowledge of the sport of tennis, WAPA-TV designed him as commentator of the Martina Navratilova-Gigi Fernández tennis game, one of the most widely seen sports events in Puerto Rican television history.

He also held a daily basketball section at WAPA-TV's news show, Noticentro 4, during the BSN season.

His job at Noticentro 4, just like his job at El Nuevo Dia, was to predict winners of BSN basketball games, but he occasionally talked about other things, such as the time he predicted Héctor Camacho would outpoint Edwin Rosario in their boxing fight, although Santori was a self declared non-boxing fan.

Camacho did outpoint Rosario in their bout.

He also had a five-minute show named "Las guiritas de Fufi" ("Fufi's Lay-ups"), where he taught youngsters basketball fundamentals.

After leaving the Gallitos de Isabela, Santori was reinstated to WAPA-TV's basketball broadcast team.

He left to coach the national basketball team for a short period of time.

1985

He remained in that position until 1985, when he accepted a contract to coach the Gallitos de Isabela team.

Apart from his television job, he started writing a daily column (during the BSN season) for El Nuevo Dia newspaper, where he predicted winners of BSN basketball games.

1992

After his stint as the national team's coach was over, he predicted, in 1992, that Puerto Rico's team would beat the original Dream Team in Barcelona.

Santori was an active member of the Puerto Rico Chess Federation and became a relatively strong player in tournaments held in Puerto Rico.

1994

Santori is the father of María Eugenia Santori, who competed in the Chess Olympiad representing the Puerto Rico National Chess Team in 1994.

Fufi Santori tried, in 1994, to renounce his United States citizenship, aiming at gaining a mostly symbolic but technically possible Puerto Rican citizenship.

Santori's request was denied, based on lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

On June 28 of that year, an appeal from Santori's side was denied by the United States district court for the district of Puerto Rico.

Santori's request was rejected because specifically says that renunciations of U.S. citizenship must be made before a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer abroad.

2006

In 2006, Santori was honored with an award recognizing his career as a basketball player and sportscaster.

2011

Santori was also, for a short period late in his life, a bachata singer; he recorded an album, named El Sentimiento de Fufi (Fufi's Feeling), which was musically directed by Harry Fraticelli, during 2011.

Born in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, he was better known as Fufi Santori.

After his retirement from National Superior Basketball Santori became a coach and television sportscaster.

He was also a physical education, basketball and tennis instructor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez for nearly thirty years.

Fufi Santori was of Corsican-Puerto Rican descent.

He was also, through his maternal grandfather, of Irish descent.

Fufi Santori, his brother Tito and the rest of his family moved to San Juan at an early age.

He grew up with pro-independence political ideas; his grandfather Cayetano Coll y Cuchí was first Speaker of the House of Representatives and his grand uncle José Coll y Cuchí was the founder of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.