Felipe Lopes

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Felipe Lopes
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Lopes as a VfB Stuttgart player
Personal information
Full name Felipe Aliste Lopes [1]
Date of birth (1987-08-07) 7 August 1987 (age 37) [1]
Place of birth Osasco, Brazil
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) [1]
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
Guarani
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2006 Guarani 24 (0)
2006–2007 Anderlecht 0 (0)
2007–2012 Nacional 98 (4)
2012–2016 VfL Wolfsburg 14 (0)
2013 → VfB Stuttgart (loan) 3 (0)
2016–2017 Chaves 6 (0)
2017–2020 Nacional 33 (2)
Total178(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Felipe Aliste Lopes (born 7 August 1987) is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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He also possessed Portuguese nationality due to the many years spent in the country with Nacional, with which he appeared in 181 official matches and scored nine goals.

Club career

Born in Osasco, São Paulo, Lopes started playing professionally with Guarani FC, competing with the club in the Série B. In 2006, aged only 19, he moved abroad and joined R.S.C. Anderlecht, being part of the squad that won the Belgian Pro League but failing to make an appearance. [2]

In the summer of 2007, Lopes signed for C.D. Nacional in Portugal, making his Primeira Liga debut on 21 December that year, starting in a 1–0 home win against FC Porto and being sent off in the 87th minute. [3] He finished his first season, however, with only seven league games (eight in all competitions).

Lopes became first-choice for the Madeirans subsequently, in a roster filled with compatriots. [4] [5] He appeared in 25 matches in the 2008–09 campaign as the team finished in a best-ever fourth position with the subsequent qualification for the UEFA Europa League, [6] and bettered those totals in the following years.

On 5 January 2012, Lopes agreed to a three-and-a-half-year contract at VfL Wolfsburg for an undisclosed fee. [7] He made his Bundesliga debut on 21 January in a 1–0 home victory over 1. FC Köln, playing the full 90 minutes. [8]

On 22 January 2013, Lopes was loaned out to fellow top-division side VfB Stuttgart until the end of the season, with the club securing an option to sign him permanently in June, [9] but finally not activating the clause. [10] Returned to the Volkswagen Arena, he did not make a single competitive appearance in two years after suffering a stroke while he watched the third-place play-off of the 2014 FIFA World Cup (he also did not collect one single minute in 2013–14). [11] [12]

Lopes returned to Portugal and its top division in summer 2016, agreeing to a one-year deal with newly promoted G.D. Chaves. [13] He rejoined Nacional ahead of the 2017–18 season, [14] achieving promotion from the LigaPro. [15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Felipe Lopes at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "FOTO: Anderlecht é bi na Bélgica" [PHOTO: Anderlecht win it again in Belgium] (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 12 May 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "Nacional-FC Porto, 1–0 (Lipatin 58')". Record (in Portuguese). 21 December 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Felipe Lopes ruma ao futebol italiano" [Felipe Lopes heads to Italian football]. Record (in Portuguese). 24 December 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Felipe Lopes está em dúvida" [Felipe Lopes a doubt]. Record (in Portuguese). 6 May 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  6. ↑ Santos, Rúben; Vieira Lopes, Paulo (22 March 2021). "Manuel Machado é o novo treinador do Nacional da Madeira" [Manuel Machado is the new manager of Nacional da Madeira]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Wolfsburg sign Ibrahim Sissoko from Academica de Coimbra & Felipe Lopes from Nacional". Goal. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  8. ↑ "VfL Wolfsburg 1–0 FC Cologne". ESPN Soccernet. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "Felipe Lopes on loan at VfB". VfB Stuttgart. 22 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Thanks and all the best!". VfB Stuttgart. 18 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  11. ↑ "Wolfsburg-Profi erzählt von Schlaganfall beim WM-Schauen" [Wolfsburg pro tells of stroke while he watched the WC] (in German). Focus. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  12. ↑ Peters, Daniel (1 June 2016). "FELIPE „Ich kann so gut werden wie früher"" [FELIPE "I can be as good as before"]. Bild (in German). Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  13. ↑ "Chaves anuncia contratação de Felipe Lopes" [Chaves announce signing of Felipe Lopes] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  14. ↑ "Defesa Felipe Lopes está de regresso ao Nacional" [Defender Felipe Lopes is back at Nacional]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 6 September 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  15. ↑ "Nacional: Felipe Lopes aponta aos 50 pontos e à Liga Europa" [Nacional: Felipe Lopes aims for 50 points and the Europa League] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
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