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It is the second club in the FUBB, after Olimpia, with more seasons in the First Division. For 27 years it has been an elite club. His last promotion was held in 1995, and from 2000 to 2017 he established a mark of 18 consecutive tournaments among the best eight in Uruguayan basketball, with eight semifinals and two finals (the 2005 title and the 2014 vice-championship). He would then finish second again in 2019.

Trouville gym

The Pocitos club is the most authentic expression of a neighborhood team. However, his fame, since the 1970s, left the limits of his area of ​​influence and acquired national importance, with which generated a unique phenomenon known as being trouvillense.

Being from Trouville represents, for the devotees of this insignia, an incomparable expression of a feeling that only those who experience it know what it represents.

Trouville is rooted in Pocitos from its origin. It was born on the border with Punta Carretas, on land with an entrance through the boulevard and through Solano Antuña, belonging to the Barrere family, where they had spaces for athletics, a jump and a 40-meter, 50-meter and 60-meter track. .

On its founding date, two versions coexisted in the club for more than three decades. Some argued that it was from 1919 or 1920 and others from 1922. The truth is that its founding date of April 1, 1922 was established by the board of directors in 1954, after a long study and having the oldest document, a record of the annual assembly of March 1923, which confirmed that a year earlier, in April 1922, he had traveled the formal path.

The club that was identified with the color red and the letter you on the chest born to compete in athletics. He formed national and South American champions.

So foreign was basketball to Trouville at that beginning that Jaime Cardoso, national and South American champion on the tracks, wore the red on his chest in athletics, but in basketball he defended Unión Atlética until 1930. Then he completed his career in Trouville.

It was formally integrated into the Uruguayan Basketball Federation in 1928 and since then he wrote a particular history, marked by an identity of the sportsman from Trouville more than by his sporting successes.

1938 team: Enrique Loustau, Pencho de Pena, Héctor Larriera, Ruben Ubal, Carlos Dell’Acqua, Eduardo Giménez de Aréchaga, C. Etcheverry, J. Rabellino and Pato de Pena

Passing 94 years competing in basketball, Trouville’s conquests are few in relation to the time of activity, however, he generated something that makes them feel proud and that no other club has: understand the sport only as they conceive it and know go through defeats without the drama that usually exists in those situations. This way of being was not changed by the arrival of professionalism.

1965 team

Héctor López Reboledo, historical coach of Uruguay, who has in Trouville an unprecedented record of 21 seasons of uninterrupted activity between 1932 and 1953 at the head of the first team, understood that the Pocitos club had a spirit that no other club in the world could develop and that it was his exclusive property: “Trouville is one of the strangest sporting institutions ever known. Not only because of its beginnings but because of its lifestyle and its permanent appointment with death”, said López Reboledo. When referring to the “appointment with death” he pointed out that “this club has always been a venue for the most authentic sports bohemia that sometimes seemed to practice the incomprehensible philosophy of playing sports not to win, not for the sport itself, but for the ineffable pleasure of losing”.

When in the Federal of 1973 Trouville was stripped of his title in the remembered final with Peñarol, that night in Pocitos they celebrated as if they had culminated champions. They had reasons to feel that way: with a team of fans, players from the neighborhood and amateurs, they had planted themselves with authority before the professional teams of Hebraica Macabi and Peñarol. Macabi was taken out of the race for the title and they lost with the Aurinegros because the Peñarol table delegate blew the whistle to the Reds, who was the one who had the clock and had to mark the end of the game, whistled out of time and He left room so that in a second (which was what remained to be played) the Bandido Bianchi would receive, pounce, take a step, settle down and shoot to convert the double of the win.

Champion Cup El Diario 1974 Blixen (DT), Carseani, Vannet, Larriera, Barizo, Lage, Wenzel; Da Prá, Bascou, Nin, Yamandú Martínez, Peinado, Izuibejeres

That, which in any other institution would have been a historical and indelible wound, has been transformed into a feeling of pride and represents what Trouville is.

Win or lose, after each game, the fans gather to celebrate being from Trouville.

Its centenary was marked by a nomadic life during its first 28 years, in which it had six venues and three courts.

The six venues: in 1922 on the Rambla and Solano Antuña, between 1923 and 1925 on Jaime Zudáñez and Roque Graseras. There he had his first basketball court, although he did not officially compete. On May 1, 1925, it was installed in half a block ceded by the family of President Williman, on March 26 and Avenida Brasil. In 1933 it moved to Francisco Vidal and Solano Antuña. In 1950, under the management of Alberto Puig Larravide, president, and his predecessor, Martinelli Gómez, he acquired a mansion and a large property on Avenida Brasil 3031, between Chucarro and Berro. That land had an exit through Chucarro. Since 1950 the Trouville court has been in the same place. In 1958 the club sold the mansion on Avenida Brasil, keeping part of the land with access to Chucarro, and attached a property at Chucarro 1031.

In 1971 they began to build the roof of the gym, which was completed in December 1973.

The great building momentum was experienced in the last 25 years, at the impulse of the protagonists of the generation of 1973 with Mahoma Wenzel at the head: the floating floor and the modern gym with capacity for 775 spectators that are distributed in three stands.

To understand why Trouville is one of the great Uruguayan basketball teams and with unique popularity in its style, there are some key elements:

1) during its first 28 years, changing its headquarters to different parts of the neighborhood, it captivated and added to its ranks the residents of different parts of Pocitos.

2) he always played a showy game, was innovative and patented stages, such as the Trouville merry-go-round in 1937 and 1938, a ball movement that baffled his rivals

3) when it settled on Avenida Brasil and Chucarro, it generated an identity and a symbol

4) In 1973 an unparalleled phenomenon occurred, which was that a 100% amateur team, with an attractive game, fought for the title against professionals from Peñarol and Hebraica Macabi

5) in that 1973 basketball began to be televised and the game of the reds transcended the border of a thousand spectators who could watch it in a game, which gave the sport a popularity that it did not have and visibility to Trouville like never before in its history

6) was one of the historic clubs that resisted entering professionalism and underwent that transformation (between 1978 and 1995 it starred in five relegations and promotions), until it finally stabilized in the new times of basketball

7) in 2003 Paolo Quintos arrived to generate a basketball revolution in Uruguay

Paolo Quinteros

A club legend like Juan Pedro “La Mona” Bianchi summed up that phenomenon a few years ago in one sentence: “That championship changed history. Until 1973 Trouville was a team with few fans and only brought people on Saturday afternoons in the summer. When we played as visitors there were four or five of us. From that Federal it became one of the most popular clubs. For that reason, what happened that year is undoubtedly a milestone in history.”

Joaquin Izuibejeres

In short, Trouville’s sporting validity was marked because he found in each generation an impulse to multiply the passion: in 1945 the Federal title, in 1973 the history of the vice-championship campaign and at the beginning of the 2000s a sporting revolution and the title the 2005 league.