Vágner Love
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{{Football player infobox
| playername = Vágner Love
| image =
| fullname = Vágner Silva de Souza
| height = {{Height|m=1.71}}
| dateofbirth = {{birth date and age|1984|6|11}}
| cityofbirth = [[Rio de Janeiro]]
| countryofbirth = [[Brazil]]
| currentclub = [[CSKA Moscow]]
| clubnumber = 9
| position = [[Striker]]
| years = 2002-2004<br />2004-
| clubs = [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]]<br />[[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]
| caps(goals) = 20 (11)<br />88 (44)
| nationalyears = 2002-2003<br />2003-
| nationalteam = [[Brazil national under-20 football team|Brazil U20]]<br />[[Brazil national football team|Brazil]]
| nationalcaps(goals) = {{0}}5 {{0}}(4)<br />20 {{0}}(8)
| pcupdate = June 23, 2008
| ntupdate = 12:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
}}
'''Vágner Love''', real name '''Vágner Silva de Souza''', (born [[June 11]], [[1984]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]]) is a [[Brazil]]ian [[football (soccer)|football]] [[striker]] who currently plays for [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]]. He has been described by former [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]] coach as a 'skillful and agile forward with outstanding pace'.
==Club career==
Vágner started his career with [[Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras|Palmeiras]], being a great aid in the 2003 season to help them return to the [[Campeonato Brasileiro Série A|Brazilian Série A]], the national first division. He was bought by [[PFC CSKA Moscow|CSKA Moscow]] in the summer of 2004, prior to their [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] campaign, for an estimated 4 million pounds.
For over a year after his arrival at CSKA, rumors kept appearing that he did not want to stay in Moscow, and a transfer to [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista|Corinthians]] in particular was hinted at numerous times. However these rumors subsided and Vágner mentioned a number of times that he was fully committed to his contract and is looking forward to completing its full tenure. As of [[April 17]], he has scored 29 goals in 73 games, 17 of them in 38 [[Russian Premier League|Russian Premiership]] games. He scored the final goal that sealed CSKA's 3-1 victory in the 2005 [[UEFA Cup]] final over [[Sporting Clube de Portugal|Sporting Lisbon]] on [[Estádio José Alvalade|Sporting's home ground]] in [[Lisbon]]. Additionally to this [[UEFA Cup]] final, he has gone on to win the [[Russian Premier League]] title and [[Russian Cup]] in 2005, and the [[Russian Super Cup]] in 2006. More recently Vagner scored a superb hatrick against [[Spartak Moscow]] on July 12, 2008
==Honours==
===Individual===
* [[Campeonato Brasileiro Série B#Top_scorers|Brazilian 2nd Division League Top Scorer]]: [[Campeonato Brasileiro Série B 2003|2003]]
===Team===
* [[UEFA Cup]]: 2005
* [[Russian Premier League]]: 2005, 2006
===Brazil===
*[[Copa América]]: 2004, 2007
{{Brazil Squad 2004 Copa América}}
{{Brazil Squad 2007 Copa América}}
{{CSKA Moscow squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vagner Love}}
[[Category:1984 births]]
[[Category:Brazilian footballers]]
[[Category:Brazilian expatriate footballers]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Brazilians of Black African descent]]
[[Category:PFC CSKA Moscow players]]
[[Category:Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players]]
[[Category:Football (soccer) strikers]]
[[Category:Brazil international footballers]]
[[Category:2004 Copa América players]]
[[Category:2007 Copa América players]]
[[Category:People from Rio de Janeiro (city)]]
[[Category:Expatriate footballers in Russia]]
[[Category:Russian Premier League players]]
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