Felipe Lopes

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

Felipe Lopes

Lopes as a VfB Stuttgart player
Personal information
Full name	Felipe Aliste Lopes
Date of birth	(1987-08-07) 7 August 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth	Osasco, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Youth career
	Guarani
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2005–2006	Guarani	24	(0)
2006–2007	Anderlecht	0	(0)
2007–2012	Nacional Madeira	98	(4)
2012–2016	VfL Wolfsburg	14	(0)
2013	→ VfB Stuttgart (loan)	3	(0)
2016–2017	Chaves	6	(0)
2017–2020	Nacional	33	(2)
Total		178	(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 May 2019

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 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 Primeira Liga debut on 21 December of that year, starting in a 1–0 home win against FC Porto and being sent off in the 87th minute.^[1] 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.^[2] He made his Bundesliga debut on 21 January in a 1–0 home win against 1. FC Köln, playing the full 90 minutes.^[3]

On 22 January 2013, Lopes was loaned out to fellow league side VfB Stuttgart until the end of the season, with the club securing an option to sign him permanently in June,^[4] but finally not activating the clause.^[5] 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 the previous campaign).^[6][7]

Lopes returned to Portugal and its top division in summer 2016, agreeing to a one-year deal with newly promoted G.D. Chaves.^[8]

References

1. "Nacional-FC Porto, 1–0 (Lipatin 58')". Record (in Portuguese). 21 December 2007. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
2. "Wolfsburg sign Ibrahim Sissoko from Academica de Coimbra & Felipe Lopes from Nacional". Goal. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
3. "VfL Wolfsburg 1–0 FC Cologne". ESPN Soccernet. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
4. . VfB Stuttgart. 22 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
5. . VfB Stuttgart. 18 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
6. "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.
7. "FELIPE "Ich kann so gut werden wie früher"" [FELIPE „I can be as good as before“]. Bild (in German). 1 June 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
8. "Chaves anuncia contratação de Felipe Lopes" [Chaves announce signing of Felipe Lopes] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.

External links

• at ForaDeJogo (archived)  
• Felipe Lopes at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Felipe Lopes at Soccerway
• Felipe Lopes at WorldFootball.net