Vágner Love

Football player infobox
playername = Vágner Love


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
2004-
clubs = Palmeiras
CSKA Moscow
caps(goals) = 20 (11)
100 (48)
nationalyears = 2002-2003
2003-
nationalteam = Brazil U20
Brazil
nationalcaps(goals) = 05 0(4)
21 0(5)
pcupdate = October 7, 2008
ntupdate = July 30, 2008

Vágner Love, born Vágner Silva de Souza, (born June 11, 1984 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian football striker who currently plays for CSKA Moscow in the Russian Premier League, and the Brazilian national team.

Club career

Vágner started his career with Palmeiras, being a great aid in the 2003 season to help them return to the Brazilian Série A, the national first division. He was bought by CSKA Moscow in the summer of 2004, prior to their Champions League campaign, for an estimated 4 million pounds.

For over a year after his arrival at CSKA, rumours kept appearing that he did not want to stay in Moscow, and a transfer to Corinthians in particular was hinted at numerous times. However these rumours 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 Premiership games. He scored the final goal that sealed CSKA's 3-1 victory in the 2005 UEFA Cup final over Sporting Lisbon on 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 Vágner scored a superb hat-trick against Spartak Moscow on July 12, 2008.

Leaked Pornographic Video

In 2008 a video of Vágner Love and Brazilian porn actress Pamela Butt was leaked on the internet. Butt said: 'I'm very well paid to have sex on camera, but I earned nothing for this. I am two people: Pamela the actress and Pamela the private lady, and today the private lady is defiled.'.

Vágner Love wasn't too concerned, he said: 'Hey, I'm known for being amorous, let's be honest: this reputation isn't one that unsettles me.' [cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/feb/10/newsstory?gusrc=rss&feed=global|title=Private Lady|publisher=Guardian.co.uk]

Honours

Individual

* Brazilian 2nd Division League Top Scorer: 2003

Team

* UEFA Cup: 2005
* Russian Premier League: 2005, 2006
* Russian Cup: 2008

Brazil

*Copa América: 2004, 2007

References