Wagner Lopes (呂比須 ワグナー) (born in Franca, Sao Paulo, Brasil, January 29, 1969) is a former Japanese footballer. The striker was born in Brazil, and is a naturalised Japanese citizen.
Lopes was an important member of Japan's 1998 FIFA World Cup squad and was best remembered playing alongside Hidetoshi Nakata at Bellmare Hiratsuka.
The striker has played for many Japanese clubs including Nissan Motors, Kashiwa Reysol, Honda, Bellmare Hiratsuka, Nagoya Grampus Eight, FC Tokyo, and Avispa Fukuoka.
He served as manager at Paulista FC in 2010 and 2011.
Read more about Wagner Lopes: Club Career Statistics, International Career Statistics, National Team
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“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)