Wagner Silva Di Souza

The heyday of the career of the Brazilian striker Wagner Love fell on the "golden age" of CSKA. In eight years, from 2004 to 2012, the striker scored 79 goals and helped CSKA win the UEFA Cup, three Russian championships and six national Cup tournaments. In 2008, the Sport-Express newspaper named him “Footballer of the Year in Russia”. The sportsman's rich career was continued by performing for the clubs of Brazil, China, France, Turkey. For the Brazilian national team, the striker played 20 games.

The future star of the Russian championship was born in 1984 in Rio de Janeiro, date of birth - June 11. Football captivated Wagner Silva di Sousa - the real name of the player - as a child, and his hometown provided every opportunity to realize his talent.

There were several football schools in the capital of Brazil, and before the signing of the first real contract, Wagner managed to be a graduate of five institutions. At the age of 8, the boy entered the school of the "Bangu" club, then moved to the "Campo Grande".

At the age of 13 he was offered to study and play for the Vasco da Gama youth team. Then, in 1997, this football team, after many years of failure, regained the title of champion; every fan in the country knew its name.

Wagner studied at the Vasco da Gama school for three years, and then moved to Sao Paulo. After playing for several months in the club of the same name, at the age of 16, the athlete joined one of his three main rivals - the Palmeiras team. He spent the first two seasons as part of a youth team, in 2002 he joined the team.

The newcomer managed to win the confidence of the coaching staff thanks to his brilliant performance for the youth team. In the matches of the São Paulo State tournament, the footballer scored a record 32 goals and was named the best striker of the season. At the same time, the main team of the club lost match after match and eventually left Serie A. The management of "Palmeiras" decided to renew the roster at the expense of debutants.

Silva di Sousa proved to be one of those who justified the confidence, although the opening game was remembered as a failure: in September 2002, Parana defeated Palmeiras with a score of 5: 1. In addition, Wagner scored his first goal for the green-whites only 8 months later in a duel against Brasiliense. However, in the remaining games of the season, the debutant rolled in 19 more goals, returning Palmeiras to their place in Serie A.

In the summer, the top scorer of Serie B was called to the national team - so far the youth. The team participated in the Pan American Games. Having entered the field in 5 matches, the forward scored 4 goals, thanks to which the national team received the silver of the tournament.

The second year at Palmeiras turned out to be no less productive than the first: in 11 games Wagner, whose last name was replaced by the nickname Love, scored 8 goals. Returning to Serie A, Palmeiras finished in 4th place at once. A key turn in the biography awaited a productive player. Wagner Love was a person of interest to the “army men” before, but only the appearance of a sponsor in the person of Sibneft made it possible to acquire a rising star of Brazilian football.

CSKA transfer cost € 6.2 million. Together with him, the Red-Blues were joined by Moldovan forward Sergei Dadu and Serbian midfielder Milos Krasic. The purchase was supported by Valery Gazzayev, who had just returned to the post of head coach of the "army".

Unlike his debut at Palmeiras, the Russian team did not need the player to pump up: for the first time playing for CSKA in a match against Baku's Neftchi, Wagner Love entered the field at the beginning of the second half and scored a goal 26 minutes later. The next year, as part of the Moscow club, the player won three trophies: gold of the Russian championship, the Cup of Russia and, of course, the UEFA Cup.

In 2006, the result of the performances was not only confirmation of the titles of the champion of the country and the owner of the national Cup, but also the victory in the Super Cup. In subsequent years, the "army team" partially repeated these successes, leaving the fans without reason to rejoice.

Wagner Love scored 79 goals in eight seasons at CSKA. The 2007/2008 season was the key one: in 33 games for the army, the Brazilian scored 29 goals. In addition, he managed to play "poker" - in a duel against "Moscow" he rolled 4 balls into the opponents' goal. Also, the CSKA player was recognized as the top scorer of the UEFA Cup season: with 11 goals, he beat Croatian Ivica Olic, who had 9 goals.

After a very successful season, Wagner Love played for a year and a half on loan at the Brazilian clubs Palmeiras and Flamengo. The player expressed a desire to stay in Brazil, but a previously signed contract did not allow him to do so. In 2010, he scored the 100th goal for CSKA (the Russian Premier League match against Tom) and became the first foreign player to join Grigory Fedotov's club.

In 2012, CSKA sold the legionnaire Flamengo, but the club's difficult financial situation did not allow Wagner to stay longer than a season. At the beginning of 2013, CSKA again acquired the Brazilian, but in the summer it was announced that the striker was moving to the Chinese Shandun Luneng. In an interview, Wagner honestly said that he was interested in a higher salary.

In China, the forward did not betray himself and scored two goals in the debut match of the national tournament. But long-term cooperation with the team did not work out due to the restrictions on legionnaires introduced in the Celestial Empire.

Love played one season for Corinthians and AS Monaco, and in 2016 he left for Turkey. For two seasons he played for the team "Alanyaspor" and according to the results of the first one he received the title of "Top scorer of the Turkish championship". In early 2018, he moved to Besiktas.

Wagner Love is married for a second marriage. The first alliance with the Brazilian Martinha de Souza broke up due to the girl's unwillingness to stay in Russia, as well as the betrayal of the football player. In marriage, sons Enzo and Lovigno were born.

Shortly after the divorce in 2013, the Brazilian proposed to Lucilen Pires. The second wife of the athlete is a beautician by profession.

In 2015, the paparazzi noticed a football player in one of the nightclubs in Europe in the company of pornographic actress Pamela Booth.

There are two versions of Love's nickname. According to the first, it appeared after the coach of the Palmeiras youth team caught a football player in the locker room with a girl. The second explains the change in the name of the legionnaire by his love of flirting with girls.

The Wagner family had an average income. Mom is a nurse in the hospital, dad is a security guard. Having signed a contract with CSKA, in the same August 2014, the footballer transported relatives to Russia: parents, sister and even her fiancé.

The athlete's height is 172 cm, weight - 72 kg. Of the hairstyles, he prefers pigtails, and after switching to CSKA, to the delight of CSKA fans, he acquired red and blue pigtails. A longtime Instagram fan, Wagner posts photos from training and games, as well as from life outside the field.

One of the most popular "non-football" videos with the Brazilian is a video in which he tries to take a dog that has run out onto the lawn from the field. Despite the legionnaire's efforts, the dog phlegmatically settles down more comfortably, ignoring Wagner.

The contract of the Brazilian with Besiktas was signed until the summer of 2020. According to him, the legionnaire's salary is about € 2 million per year. In the first six months at the club, Wagner played 19 matches and scored 7 goals.

In July 2017, he participated in the Besiktas squad in a friendly match with CSKA, where the army team won 4: 1. Love did not score the only goal against the Red-Blues. During the transfer window of 2018, information appeared about the possible sale of the legionnaire to another Turkish club.

2003 - Winner of Serie B (with Palmeiras) 2004 - Winner of the America's Cup (with the Brazilian national team) 2005 - Winner of the UEFA Cup (with CSKA) 2005, 2006 - Champion of Russia (with CSKA) 2005, 2006 - Winner of the Cup Russia (with CSKA) 2006, 2007 - winner of the Russian Super Cup (with CSKA) 2007 - winner of the America's Cup (with the Brazilian national team) 2008, 2009 - winner of the Russian Cup (with CSKA) 2008 - footballer of the year in Russia 2014 - winner Chinese Cup (with Shandong Luneng) 2015 - Champion of Brazil (with Corinthians)

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