Santo Cristo (footballer)

Brazilian association football player

Walter Goulart da Silveira (12 September 1922 – 30 August 2003), better known as Santo Cristo, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger.[1][2][3]

Santo Cristo
Personal information
Full name Walter Goulart da Silveira
Date of birth (1922-09-12)12 September 1922
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death 30 August 2003(2003-08-30) (aged 80)
Place of death Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Position(s) Right winger
Youth career
Vasco da Gama
Bonsucesso
SC Oposição (Piedade)
Mavilis FC (Caju)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1944 São Cristóvão
1945–1946 Vasco da Gama 71 (34)
1947 Botafogo
1948 São Paulo 21 (10)
1948–1951 Fluminense 88 (32)
1951 Guarani
1952–1953 XV de Piracicaba
1953 Portuguesa 8 (3)
1953–1954 Ferroviária
1955 Atlético Mineiro 8 (2)
1956 Olaria
Teams managed
1959 São Cristóvão
1961 Tupynambás
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 December 2023

References change

  1. "Walter Goulart da Silveira, "Santo Cristo": o craque esquecido!". História do Futebol (in Portuguese). 20 January 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. Érico Faria Loreto; Márcio Monteiro Alencar; Rafael Ribeiro Emiliano; Thiago Teixeira de Azevedo (2007). Almanaque da Lusa. Fundação Cásper Líbero.
  3. Mário Rodrigues (2003). O negro no futebol brasileiro [O maior clássico sobre o futebol brasileiro] (4ª ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora Ltda. pp. 360. ISBN 85-7478-096-0.