Washington Poyet

Washington Poyet, full name Washington Augusto Poyet Carreras, ( born January 12, 1939 in Montevideo, † June 16, 2007 ) was an Uruguayan basketball player.

Career

Association

The depending on the source position 1.88 meters or 1.89 meters and 1.92 meters tall in his own words Poyet, father of former national player and soccer coach Gustavo Poyet today, grew up in the neighborhood montevideanischen Parque de los Aliados (in today's Parque Batlle ) on. He claims to have actually always preferred the sport of football, but was later to be one of the greatest basketball players of Uruguay. In his early years he played in the youth team of Uruguayan professional football club Danubio. Poyet was in basketball at club level in the Club Atlético Peñarol Tabaré and active. With Tabaré of playing with the shirt number 7, " Indio " was called Poyet in the years 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1968 respectively Uruguayan champion. His sixth personally Championship title he won with the Aurinegros.

National

For the national selection teams of Uruguay Poyet was also nominated and debuted at the Basketball South American Championship 1958, in which Uruguay secured the runner-up title. His first game for Uruguay against Colombia, he completed when he entered the field of play for the already admonished because of three fouls Ramiro Cortés ten minutes before the end of trainer López. In the remaining game time he scored eight points personal. He was part of the national team that placed ninth in the final standings in the Basketball World Championship 1959. There was a fourth place in the squad with Poyet Celeste at the basketball World Grand Prix 1960 in Córdoba. He took both Uruguay at the Olympic Games in 1960 as well - in the role of team captain - at the Olympic Games in 1964 in part. At the games in Rome and under coach Raúl Ballefín in Tokyo, he finished with his home country, respectively the eighth. In 1963 he was a member of the Uruguayan contingent at the Pan American Games. In the same year he was with the staged in Peru South America championships with 102 points, the most successful basket scorer of the tournament. Uruguay won the third place in the competition. In the basketball world championship in 1967 in the domestic Montevideo he binned with Celeste in seventh place. Of 1968 was followed by another South American Championship with his participation. The following year he won with the national team, coached by Jorge Bassaizteguy the title of this discharged in the home country Poyets continental competition. Poyet was buried in the Cementerio Parque de los Recuerdos.