Julio Toro
Encyclopedia
Julio Toro is a Puerto Rican
basketball
coach. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, he made history by becoming the first non-Soviet
coach to defeat the United States
during Olympic competition, and the first coach to defeat an American team composed of NBA players at an Olympics match.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
coach. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, he made history by becoming the first non-Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
coach to defeat the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
during Olympic competition, and the first coach to defeat an American team composed of NBA players at an Olympics match.
See also
- List of famous Puerto Ricans