14 Facts About Walter Casagrande

Walter Casagrande represented Corinthians, Caldense, Sao Paulo, Flamengo, and Paulista FC in Brazil, Portuguese club FC Porto, and Italian clubs Ascoli and Torino FC Walter Casagrande won two Sao Paulo State Championships with Corinthians in 1982 and 1983, while playing alongside Socrates, forming one of the greatest strike partnerships in the history of Brazilian football.

Walter Casagrande moved to Europe from his home country in 1986 to join Porto, winning a European Cup title in 1987 during his only season with the team.

Walter Casagrande is remembered by the club's fans for scoring a brace in a Turin Derby victory over rivals Juventus.

Walter Casagrande later returned to Brazil in 1993, to play for Flamengo; that year, he was runner-up in the Supercopa Sudamericana with the club, losing in a penalty shootout to another Brazilian team, Sao Paulo.

Walter Casagrande subsequently went on to have a second spell with Corinthians between 1994 and 1995; in total, he played 256 games and scored 102 goals for the latter club.

Walter Casagrande was left off of the team that took part at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, but he played in three games during the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Tall and physically powerful, Walter Casagrande usually played as a forward.

In September 2007, Walter Casagrande was involved in a weekend traffic accident, and was briefly in a coma after his car rolled and hit parked cars.

Walter Casagrande was able to leave the intensive care unit and was breathing on his own.

Walter Casagrande, who played for Brazil at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, said he overdosed four times from 2005 to 2007 and once almost went into a coma after using drugs.

Walter Casagrande, suffered a heart attack on the morning of Friday on 29 May 2015.

Walter Casagrande has been sent to the ICU of TotalCor hospital in Sao Paulo.

Walter Casagrande has been vocally critical of the numerous Brazilian men's footballers who endorsed Jair Bolsonaro's 2018 presidential campaign, claiming that while many footballers had endorsed Bolsonaro, no one had said why or how Bolsonaro would improve Brazil.

In 2022, Walter Casagrande opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and criticized Jair Bolsonaro neutrality regarding the conflict.