Carlos Alberto Cerutti was an Argentine

Argentina

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 basketball

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 player. A center

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, Cerutti was three times Argentine league champion with Atenas

Asociación Deportiva Atenas

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 (in 1987, 1988 and 1990). He was selected as the league's finals Most Valuable Player

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 in 1988, and also participated in the all-star game

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s of 1989 and 1990.

Cerutti also represented the Argentine national team

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. He won the 1987 South American Championship

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 and the 1988 Youth South American Championship with his country.

Cerutti died in a car accident on May 3, 1990, aged 21. Atenas stadium was named Polideportivo Municipal Carlos Cerutti in his honour.