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) and 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. Early life and basketball 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. 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. 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. 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. 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