Carlos Blixen

Carlos Blixen’s 30-year basketball career was spent with Montevideo Club Trouville at a time when they were for most of that time, an amateur club. He joined them as a 15-year-old and went on to become a prolific scorer and leading member of the club. Blixen scored 14 points on his first team début in a 40-34 win over Defensores de Maroñas in 1954. His playing career lasted an uninterrupted 17 years.

After his playing days, Blixen started coached Trouville in lower divisions until 1973 when he became first-team coach. That year led them to the runners-up position in the Uruguayan Federal Basketball Championship, finishing second only to the professional side Peñarol.

Blixen’s international career was impressive and between 1955-63 he played 70 matches for Uruguay and was, in 1956, a member of the last Uruguayan squad to win an Olympic medal, when they won bronze. He competed at Rome four years later but could only finish eighth. Blixen appeared in two World Cups, at Chile in 1959 (finished 9th), and Brazil in 1963 (10th). He also played if five South American Championships, and Uruguay were the champions in 1955, and were runners-up in 1958 and 1961

After relinquishing his position Trouville’s first team coach in 1980, Blixen moved to Spain to live the following year.