Personal information | |||
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Full name | Victorio Francisco Casa | ||
Date of birth | 28 October 1943 | ||
Date of death | 6 June 2013 | (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]