Jose Santori Coll was a Puerto Rican basketball player and coach.
13 Facts About Fufi Santori
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Fufi Santori was, through his maternal grandfather, of Irish descent.
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Fufi Santori grew up with pro-independence political ideas; his grandfather Cayetano Coll y Cuchi was first Speaker of the House of Representatives and his grand uncle Jose Coll y Cuchi was the founder of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
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An avid sports fan, Fufi Santori was a member of the Puerto Rican Olympic Basketball Team that participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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Fufi Santori made his debut in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional in 1951 with the Cangrejeros de Santurce.
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That same year, Fufi Santori won the BSN Most Valuable Player Award.
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In 1954 he had a second stint with the Cangrejeros de Santurce and a year later Fufi 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.
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Fufi Santori 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.
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Fufi Santori played for the Rio Piedras squad, winning two scoring titles there, in 1963 and 1968.
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Fufi Santori was later chosen as the 30th best player in Puerto Rican basketball history by a BSN voting panel.
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Fufi Santori tried, in 1994, to renounce his United States citizenship, aiming at gaining a mostly symbolic but technically possible Puerto Rican citizenship.
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Fufi Santori's request was denied, based on lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.
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Fufi Santori's request was rejected because specifically says that renunciations of US citizenship must be made before a US diplomatic or consular officer abroad.