Casemiro

Casemiro is my litmus test for whether someone actually watches football or just watches highlights. For years he did the unglamorous arithmetic that let superstars play poetry — intercepting, fouling smartly, covering ground nobody thanks you for. From São José dos Campos through São Paulo's academy to the summit of the European game, his career proves that destruction is also a craft. Now a free agent, he is easy to dismiss, but I would argue his reading of danger ages far better than legs do. Midfields are orchestras, and Casemiro spent a decade as the indispensable bass note everyone misses.

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Name (English)

Casemiro

Name (Japanese)

カルロス・エンリケ・ジョゼ・フランシスコ・ヴェナンシオ・カジミーロ

Reading

かるろす・えんりけ・じょぜ・ふらんしすこ・ゔぇなんしお・かじみーろ

Born

February 23, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/casemiro/
• Xhttps://x.com/Casemiro
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casemiro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BC%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q616664

Tags

• São Paulo
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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