Victorio Casa

Victorio Casa
Personal information
Full name Victorio Francisco Casa
Date of birth (1943-10-28)28 October 1943
Date of death 6 June 2013(2013-06-06) (aged 69)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1966 San Lorenzo 72 (5)
1966–1967 Platense
1968 Washington Whips 31 (5)
1970 Washington Darts 17 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Victorio Francisco Casa (28 October 1943 – 6 June 2013) was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a forward for San Lorenzo in the Argentine Primera División and in the United States with the Washington Whips and Washington Darts in the first North American Soccer League (NASL). He is the first player in American professional soccer history (and only player in NASL history) to play with one arm; he had lost his right arm in a freak shooting accident before coming to the U.S.[1]

  1. ^ Shapiro, Leonard (18 June 2018). "How D.C. Played a Role in Pro Soccer's Reemergence in the U.S." Washington City Paper. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

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