Felipe Aliste Lopes

Felipe Lopes
Personal information
Full nameFelipe Aliste Lopes
Date of birth7 August 1987
Place of birthOsasco, Brazil
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionCentre back
Club information
Current team
VfL Wolfsburg
Number26
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2005–2006Guarani24(0)
2006–2007Anderlecht0(0)
2007–2012Nacional98(4)
2012–VfL Wolfsburg14(0)
2013→ VfB Stuttgart (loan)3(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 May 2013.
† Appearances (Goals).

Felipe Aliste Lopes (born 7 August 1987) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for German club VfL Wolfsburg as a central defender.

He also possesses Portuguese nationality due to the many years spent in the country with Nacional, with which he appeared in 143 official games and scored seven goals.

Football career

Born in Osasco, São Paulo, Lopes started playing professionally with Guarani Futebol Clube, competing with the club in the second division. In 2006, aged only 19, he moved abroad and joined R.S.C. Anderlecht, being part of the squad that won the national championship but failing to appear in the league.

In the summer of 2007 Lopes signed for C.D. Nacional in Portugal, making his top level debut on 21 December of that year, starting in a 1–0 home win against F.C. Porto and being sent off in the 87th minute. He finished his first season, however, with only seven league games played (eight official).

Subsequently, Lopes became first-choice for the Madeirans – in a roster filled with compatriots – appearing in 25 matches in the 2008–09 campaign as the team finished in a best-ever fourth position with the subsequent qualification to the UEFA Europa League, and bettering those totals in the following years.

On 5 January 2012 Lopes signed for VfL Wolfsburg for an undisclosed fee, penning a three-and-a-half-year contract.[1] He made his Bundesliga debut on 21 January in a 1–0 home win against 1. FC Köln, playing the full 90 minutes.[2]

On 22 January 2013, Lopes was loaned out to fellow league side VfB Stuttgart until the end of the season, with the club securing and option to sign him permanently in June[3] but finally not activating the clause.[4]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Wolfsburg sign Ibrahim Sissoko from Academica de Coimbra & Felipe Lopes from Nacional". Goal.com. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "VfL Wolfsburg 1–0 FC Cologne". ESPN Soccernet. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Felipe Lopes on loan at VfB". VfB Stuttgart. 22 January 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Thanks and all the best!". VfB Stuttgart. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2013.

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