Wágner

Wágner

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Personal information
Full name	Wágner Ferreira dos Santos
Date of birth	29 January 1985 (1985-01-29)
Place of birth	Sete Lagoas, Brazil
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club	Fluminense
Number	19
Youth career
2001	América-MG
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2004	América-MG	124	(16)
2004–2009	Cruzeiro	217	(36)
2007	→ Al-Ittihad	25	(9)
2009–2011	FC Lokomotiv Moscow	21	(3)
2011	Gaziantepspor	17	(2)
2012–	Fluminense
National team‡
	Brazil U20	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:37, 1 December 2010 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 January 2007

Wágner Ferreira dos Santos (born 29 January 1985 in Sete Lagoas), commonly known as Wágner, is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays for Fluminense.

Career

Club career

He started his career at América Mineiro and went on to play for Cruzeiro, another team from Belo Horizonte. Cruzeiro sold Wágner to Al-Ittihad after a transfer fee of around €9 million on January 2007, but a clause in his contract allowed him to come back to Cruzeiro in June 2007 after Al-Ittihad could not finish paying his transfer fee. He was important in Al-Ittihad's championship run. On 7 August 2009 Championat.ru confirm that Lokomotiv Moscow have acquired the Brazilian player, for 6 million euros. 3 days later this move was confirmed by Nikolay Naumov, president of Lokomotiv.

On 17 January 2011 he signed for Gaziantepspor for €3 million.

After a feud with Gaziantepspor manager Abdullah Ercan, Wágner's contract was terminated on a mutual agreement.

Attributes

Wagner is a left footed offensive midfielder and striker, but is also working on using his right foot too. Despite playing all of the 2006 season as an offensive midfielder, he led the Campeonato Brasileiro, in its early stages, with 8 goals in 10 games. He is a free-kick specialist, scoring a majority of his goals through free-kicks.

National

He has played for the Brazil U17 and U21 squad. He was also called up for the Brazil national team for a friendly but never played.

Honours

• Copa do Mundo (Sub 17): 2002
• Campeonato Mineiro: 2006, 2008, 2009
• Torneio Octogonal do Chile: 2005
• Copa do Rei: 2006/2007

Personal honours

• Bola de Prata Brasileira ( Placar ): 2006, 2008

Contract

• 11 June 2006 to 10 June 2009

External links

• (English) sambafoot
• (Portuguese) CBF
• (Portuguese) zerozero.pt