Fufi Santori

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Fufi Santori
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Born(1932-05-07)May 7, 1932
Puerto Rico National Team
Career highlights and awards

José Santori Coll (May 7, 1932 – April 2, 2018) was a Puerto Rican basketball player and coach. 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.[1]

Born in

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.

Early life and basketball

Fufi Santori, his brother Tito and the rest of his family moved to

Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. 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.[2]
He was a tennis player and coach.

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.[3] 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. In 1953 he became the BSN Scoring Champion with 28.3 points per game. 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.[3] 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. 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. He also played for the Rio Piedras squad, winning two scoring titles there, in 1963 and 1968. Santori was later chosen as the 30th best player in Puerto Rican basketball history by a BSN voting panel.

After basketball

Santori's popularity kept growing after he retired from the game. In 1982, he joined

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

Barcelona
.

Santori was an active member of the Puerto Rico Chess Federation and became a relatively strong player in tournaments held in Puerto Rico. Santori is the father of María Eugenia Santori, who competed in the Chess Olympiad representing the Puerto Rico National Chess Team in 1994.[4]

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

Santori v. United States

Fufi Santori tried, in 1994, to renounce his United States

United States district court for the district of Puerto Rico. Santori's request was rejected because 8 U.S.C. § 1481(a)(5)
specifically says that renunciations of U.S. citizenship must be made before a U.S. diplomatic or consular officer abroad. Santori's attempt at renunciation was in the form of an affidavit in Lares, Puerto Rico.

Behind the litigation over Santori's nationality status lie some anomalies and peculiarities relating to matters of status in Puerto Rico: Under the Treaty of Paris under which the United States acquired sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Spanish nationals had a right of option. United States nationality (citizenship) is acquired by persons born in Puerto Rico by that Treaty and under statute, and not under the 14th Amendment (8 U.S.C. § 1406, 66 Stat. 237). Finally, U.S. citizens, born or naturalized in Puerto Rico and domiciled and resident there at the time of death, are not subject to U.S. estate tax on Puerto Rican assets: 26 U.S.C. §§ 2208–2209; Rev. Rul. 74-25; TAM 7612220070A; General Counsel Memorandum 36944, Dec. 10, 1976.

See also

References

  1. ^ Harry_Fraticelli
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "José Santori". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  3. ^ a b "BSN de luto ante fallecimiento de José "Fufi" Santori" (in Spanish). bsnpr.com. April 2, 2018. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  4. ^ "Women's Chess Olympiad". Olimpbase.org.

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