Wagner Ferreira dos Santos

Wagner
Personal information
Full name	Wagner Ferreira dos Santos
Date of birth	January 29 1985 (1985-01-29) (age 23)
Place of birth	Sete Lagoas, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club	Cruzeiro
Number	10
Youth clubs
2001	América-MG
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2002-2004 2004-2006 2007 2007	América-MG Cruzeiro → Al-Ittihad Cruzeiro	- (-) 115 (18) 16 (6)
National team2
2006–	Brazil	0 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 June, 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 24 January, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Wagner or Wagner Ferreira dos Santos (born 29 January 1985 in Sete Lagoas) is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays for Cruzeiro.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Club 1.2 National 2 Honours 3 Personal Honours 4 Contract 5 External links

Career

Club

He 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 gaols through free-kicks. He started his career at América Mineiro and went on to play for Cruzeiro, another team from Belo Horizonte. Cruzeiro sold Wagner 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.

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.[1]

Honours

• Copa do Mundo (Sub 17): 2002
• Campeonato Mineiro: 2006
• Torneio Octogonal do Chile: 2005

Personal Honours

• Bola de Prata Brasileira (Placar): 2006

Contract

• 11th June 2006 to 10th June 2009

External links

• (English) sambafoot
• (Portuguese) CBF
• (Portuguese) zerozero.pt
• (German) soccerterminal
• (English) playerhistory

•  • e Cruzeiro Esporte Clube – current squad

1 Fábio • 2 Jonathan • 3 Emerson • 4 Thiago Heleno • 5 Léo Silva • 6 Fernandinho • 7 Guilherme • 9 Roni • 10 Wagner • 11 Marcinho • 12 Lauro • 13 Mariano • 14 Léo Fortunato • 15 Thiago • 16 Fábio Santos • 17 Diego • 18 Charles • 19 Leandro Domingues • 20 Maicosuel • 21 Nenê • 22 Alecsandro • 23 Daniel • 24 Flávio • 25 Marcelo Moreno • -- Paulinho Dias • -- João Victor • -- Sandro • -- Bruno • -- Kerlon • -- Gatti • -- Aldo • -- Eliezio • -- André Luís • Manager: Dorival Júnior |}