Fufi Santori
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 7, 1932 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Listed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Listed weight | 161 lb (73 kg) |
| Career information | |
| Playing career | 1957–1961 |
| Position | Point guard |
| Career history | |
| As player: | |
| 1957–1961 | Capitanes de Arecibo |
| As coach: | |
| 1967 | Puerto Rico National Team |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| As coach: | |
José Santori Coll (born May 7, 1932 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico), better known as Fufi Santori, is a well known former BSN basketball player, coach and television sportscaster. He was also a physical education, basketball and tennis instructor at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez for close to thirty years. Fufi Santori is of obvious Corsican-Puerto Rican descent which is common and well known on the island. He is 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 grand father Cayetano Coll y Cuchí was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his grand uncle José Coll y Cuchí was the founder of 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. He was a tennis player and coach.
After a notable high school basketball career, 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.
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