Gustavo Zerbino

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Gustavo Zerbino
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President of the Uruguayan Rugby Union
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20 December 2007 –2011

Gustavo Carlos Zerbino Stajano (born May 16, 1953) is a Uruguayan businessman, motivational speaker, sports executive and former rugby union player. [1] He is known for being one of the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972.

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Early life and education

Gustavo Zerbino was born in Montevideo on May 16, 1953, as the son of lawyer Jorge Zerbino Cavajani and his wife Susana Stajano Ferreiro. [2] He is one of the couple's nine children, [3] and a maternal descendant of Carlos Stajano, one of the founders of Carrasco Polo Club. [4] Raised in the Carrasco neighborhood, he attended Stella Maris College and played for its alumni rugby union team, Old Christians. [5]

In 1972, he enrolled at the University of the Republic to study medicine. [6] On October 13, at the age of 19, he was a passenger on Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 that crashed in the Andes and was one of those who survived 72 days in the mountains. [7]

Career

After returning to Uruguay from the Andes, Zerbino continued studying medicine but ultimately did not graduate. [8] Instead, he earned a business administration degree from the University of the Republic. [9] He also continued playing rugby union, he was a member of the national team, and participated in the 1973 and 1977 South American Rugby championships, in which Uruguay finished as runner-up. [10]

Since 1980, he has been director of Cibeles S.A., his family's pharmaceutical company founded in 1975. [11] He also has served as president of the Chamber of Pharmaceutical and Related Specialties of Uruguay (CEFA). [12]

He is co-founder and vice president of Rugby sin Fronteras ( Spanish for 'Rugby without Borders'), a foundation created in 2009 with the aim of promoting the values of this sport through awareness campaigns, events, conferences and sporting events. [13] In addition, as a sports executive and administrator, in December 2007 he was elected president of the Uruguayan Rugby Union, [14] and in 2009 was re-elected for a second two-year term. [15] In 2011 he was succeeded by Marcello Calandra. [16]

Personal life

Zerbino was married for thirteen years to Paqui Paysée, with whom he had four children, Gustavo, Sebastián, Lucas, and Martín, the latter was a member of the band Toco Para Vos. [17]

In 2000 he began a relationship with the Argentine María González whom he later married. Together they had two daughters, Luma —Gonzalez's maiden daughter, whom Zerbino adopted—, and Lupita. [18] They both divorced and in October 2019, María González died of breast cancer. [19]

Filmography

Zerbino was portrayed by actor David Kriegel in Frank Marshall's 1993 feature film Alive , and by Tomás Wolf in the 2023 feature film, Society of the Snow . [20]

YearTitleRoleNotes
1993 Alive: 20 Years Later himselfvideo documentary
2007 Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains himselfdocumentary
2009Independent Lens' (Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors)himselfTV series documentary
2010 I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash himselfdocumentary aired on History Channel
2023 Society of the Snow Rugby Coachfeature film

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