Silva Batuta/Machado da Silva | |
Fullname: | Wálter Machado da Silva |
Birth Date: | 2 January 1940 |
Birth Place: | Ribeirão Preto, Brazil |
Death Place: | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Position: | Striker |
Youthyears1: | 1955–1957 |
Years1: | 1957–1959 |
Clubs1: | São Paulo |
Caps1: | 8 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Years2: | 1958–1959 |
Clubs2: | → Batatais FC[1] (loan) |
Caps2: | 17 |
Goals2: | 6 |
Years3: | 1959–1961 |
Clubs3: | Botafogo-SP[2] |
Caps3: | 62 |
Goals3: | 24 |
Years4: | 1962–1966 |
Clubs4: | Corinthians[3] |
Caps4: | 84 |
Goals4: | 62 |
Years5: | 1965–1966 |
Clubs5: | → Flamengo[4] (loan) |
Caps5: | 31 |
Goals5: | 20 |
Years6: | 1967–1969 |
Clubs6: | Barcelona |
Caps6: | - |
Goals6: | - |
Years7: | 1967 |
Clubs7: | → Santos[5] (loan) |
Caps7: | 14 |
Goals7: | 7 |
Years8: | 1968–1969 |
Clubs8: | → Flamengo[6] (loan) |
Caps8: | 22 |
Goals8: | 11 |
Years9: | 1969 |
Clubs9: | Racing |
Caps9: | 28 |
Goals9: | 18 |
Years10: | 1970–1973[7] |
Clubs10: | Vasco da Gama |
Caps10: | 37 |
Goals10: | 9 |
Years11: | 1971 |
Clubs11: | → Botafogo (loan) |
Caps11: | 13 |
Goals11: | 2 |
Years12: | 1973 |
Caps12: | 15 |
Goals12: | 4 |
Years13: | 1973 |
Clubs13: | Rio Negro-AM[8] |
Caps13: | 11 |
Goals13: | 3 |
Years14: | 1974 |
Nationalyears1: | 1966 |
Nationalteam1: | Brazil |
Nationalcaps1: | 6 |
Nationalgoals1: | 2 |
Wálter Machado da Silva (January 2, 1940 – September 29, 2020), better known as "Silva Batuta" in Brazil, or Machado da Silva in Argentina, was a Brazilian footballer.
He earned 6 caps (3 non-official) for the Brazil national football team and was part of the Brazilian squad at the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
Silva Batuta died on 29 September 2020 at the age of 80 from COVID-19.[9] [10]