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Wagner Lopes
呂比須 ワグナー
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Lopes as head coach of Botafogo-SP in 2020
Personal information
Full name Wagner Augusto Lopes
Date of birth (1969-01-29) 29 January 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth Franca, Brazil
Height 1.82 m
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club CRAC (head coach)
Youth career
São Paulo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1987 São Paulo 14 (1)
1987–1990 Nissan Motors 49 (12)
1990–1994 Kashiwa Reysol 96 (85)
1995–1996 Honda 60 (67)
1997–1998 Bellmare Hiratsuka 56 (36)
1999–2000 Nagoya Grampus Eight 51 (23)
2001 FC Tokyo 10 (3)
2001–2002 Avispa Fukuoka 27 (13)
Total 363 (229)
National team
1997–1999 Japan 20 (5)
Teams managed
2005–2007 Paulista (assistant)
2010 Paulista
2010 PAEC
2011 Paulista
2012 Gamba Osaka (assistant)
2013 Comercial
2013 São Bernardo
2014 Botafogo-SP
2014 Criciúma
2014 Atlético Goianiense
2015 Goiás
2015 Bragantino
2016 Atlético Goianiense
2016 Sampaio Corrêa
2017 Paraná
2017 Albirex Niigata
2018 Paraná
2018–2019 Atlético Goianiense
2020 Botafogo-SP
2021 Vila Nova
2021 Vitória
2024– CRAC
Honours
Nissan Motors
Winner Japan Soccer League 1988/89
Winner Japan Soccer League 1989/90
Winner JSL Cup 1988
Winner JSL Cup 1989
Winner Emperor's Cup 1988
Winner Emperor's Cup 1989
Nagoya Grampus Eight
Winner Emperor's Cup 1999
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Wagner Augusto Lopes (呂比須 ワグナー, Ropesu Wagunā, born 29 January 1969) is a Brazilian-Japanese football coach and former player who played as a forward. He is the current head coach of CRAC.

Born in Brazil, Lopes is a naturalised Japanese citizen and represented their national team on 20 occasions. After retiring he took up coaching, mainly working in both his home and footballing countries.

Club career

Wagner Lopes Nissan SC (cropped)
Lopes with Nissan Motors

Lopes was born in Franca, São Paulo and represented São Paulo FC as a youth. In 1987, after two years as a senior, he moved to Japan and signed with Japan Soccer League club Nissan Motors. From 1988 to 1990, the club won all three major titles in Japan; Japan Soccer League, JSL Cup and Emperor's Cup two years in a row.

Lopes moved to Hitachi (later Kashiwa Reysol) in 1990. In 1992, Japan Soccer League was folded and the club joined the new Japan Football League (JFL). The club won 2nd place in 1994 and secured promotion to the J1 League.

In 1994, after Kashiwa signed Müller, Lopes left the club. He joined JFL club Honda in 1995 where he was top scorer for two years in a row (1995-1996). He moved to J1 League club Bellmare Hiratsuka in 1997, playing with Hidetoshi Nakata and scoring regularly. However, he left the club end of 1998 season due to financial strain and moved to Nagoya Grampus Eight, winning the 1999 Emperor's Cup.

Toward the end of his career, Lopes played for FC Tokyo (2001) and Avispa Fukuoka (2001–02). He retired at the end of the 2002 season.

International career

In September 1997, Lopes obtained Japanese citizenship. Immediately after this, he was called up to the Japan national team for the 1998 World Cup qualifiers. On 28 September, he made his national team debut against South Korea.

Lopes went on to play six games and scored three goals to help Japan qualify for their first-ever FIFA World Cup. At the 1998 World Cup, he played all three matches, assisting Masashi Nakayama in Japan's first-ever World Cup goal against Jamaica. He also played at the 1999 Copa America and scored twice.

Lopes played 20 games and scored five goals for Japan until 1999.

Managerial career

Lopes started his career as Vágner Mancini's assistant at Paulista in 2005, helping the club win their first-ever national title, the 2005 Copa do Brasil. He left the club in 2007 due to health problems, but returned in December 2009. Initially an interim for the 2010 season, he was definitely appointed manager on 23 February. In May, he resigned and was subsequently appointed manager of Pão de Açúcar Esporte Clube.

Lopes returned to Paulista in 2011, winning the year's Copa Paulista before returning to Japan and being named Gamba Osaka's assistant manager in 2012. In October 2012, he was presented as manager of Comercial-SP manager for the ensuing campaign. In that season, he also managed São Bernardo.

In the 2014 campaign, Lopes was in charge of Botafogo-SP, Criciúma and Atlético Goianiense. In the following year, he took over Goiás and Bragantino.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League State League National cup League cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
São Paulo 1985 Série A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1986 0 0 10 1 0 0 10 1
1987 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0
Total 0 0 14 1 0 0 14 1
Nissan Motors 1987–88 JSL Division 1 21 8 21 8
1988–89 15 3 15 3
1989–90 13 1 4 0 17 1
Total 49 12 0 0 4 0 53 12
Kashiwa Reysol 1990–91 JSL Division 2 23 33 1 0 24 33
1991–92 JSL Division 1 20 4 3 4 23 8
1992 Football League 17 13 - 17 13
1993 18 18 0 0 0 0 18 18
1994 18 17 0 0 1 0 19 17
Total 96 85 0 0 5 4 101 89
Honda 1995 Football League 30 31 1 0 - 31 31
1996 30 36 2 1 - 32 37
Total 60 67 3 1 0 0 63 68
Bellmare Hiratsuka 1997 J1 League 27 18 3 4 6 8 36 30
1998 29 18 2 0 0 0 31 18
Total 56 36 5 4 6 8 67 48
Nagoya Grampus Eight 1999 J1 League 23 13 5 2 6 4 34 19
2000 28 10 1 1 4 0 33 11
Total 51 23 6 3 10 4 67 30
FC Tokyo 2001 J1 League 10 3 0 0 2 4 12 7
Avispa Fukuoka 2001 J1 League 8 7 0 0 0 0 8 7
2002 J2 League 19 6 2 0 - 21 6
Total 27 13 2 0 0 0 29 13
Career total 349 239 14 1 16 8 23 16 402 264

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Japan 1997 6 3
1998 7 0
1999 7 2
Total 20 5
Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lopes goal.
List of international goals scored by Wagner Lopes
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 11 October 1997 Tashkent, Uzbekistan  Uzbekistan 1–1 1–1 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 26 October 1997 Tokyo, Japan  United Arab Emirates 1–0 1–1 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 1 November 1997 Seoul, South Korea  South Korea 2–0 2–0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
4 29 June 1999 Asunción, Paraguay  Peru 1–0 2–3 1999 Copa América
5 5 July 1999 Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay  Bolivia 1–1 1–1 1999 Copa América

Managerial statistics

Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
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Honours

Player

São Paulo

  • Campeonato Paulista: 1985, 1987

Nissan Motors

Nagoya Grampus

Manager

Paulista

  • Copa Paulista: 2011

Atlético Goianiense

  • Campeonato Goiano: 2019

Individual

  • Asian Goal of the Month: November 1997

See also

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