Wallace (footballer, born October 1994)

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Fortuna and the second or paternal family name is dos Santos.
Wallace

Wallace playing for Monaco in 2014
Personal information
Full name Wallace Fortuna dos Santos
Date of birth (1994-10-14) October 14, 1994
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current team
Lazio
Number 13
Youth career
Tigres do Brasil
2010–2013 Cruzeiro
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2014 Cruzeiro 3 (0)
2014–2016 Braga 0 (0)
2014–2016Monaco (loan) 40 (1)
2016– Lazio 8 (1)
National team
2013–2014 Brazil U20 6 (1)
2014– Brazil U23 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 November 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2014

Wallace Fortuna dos Santos (born October 14, 1994), known as simply Wallace, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Lazio as a defender.[1]

Club career

A youth product of Cruzeiro, Wallace caused great stir when Gestifute paid €9.5M to sign him from Cruzeiro in early July 2014.[2] Although his economic rights owned by Gestifute, Braga set a release clause at €40M.[3]

On 21 August 2014, without ever playing for Braga, he was loaned to AS Monaco, in a loan deal set by Jorge Mendes.[4]

On 29 July 2016, Serie A club Lazio announced that they had definitively purchased Wallace from Braga.[1] He scored his first goal for the club on 20 November 2016 in a 3–1 home win over Genoa.[5]

International career

Wallace represented the Brazil U-20 at the 2013 and 2014 edition's of the Toulon Tournament.[6][7]

Statistics

Club

As of 20 November 2016[8]
Club Season League Cup Continental1 Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Cruzeiro
2013 001010
2014 300042070
Total 30104080
Braga2014–16 000000
Monaco (loan)2014–15 1404140221
2015–16 2613050341
Total 4017190562
Lazio2016–17 810081
Career Total 512819040723

    Honours

    Cruzeiro
    Brazil U20

    References

    1. 1 2 "Comunicato 29.07.2016" [Press release 29 July 2016] (in Italian). Retrieved 29 July 2016.
    2. "Sp. Braga: Cruzeiro explica venda de Wallace". Maisfutebol.com. 1 July 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
    3. "Sp. Braga: Danilo e Wallace com cláusula de 40 milhões". MaisFutebol.com. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
    4. "Sp. Braga empresta Wallace ao Mónaco". Maisfutebol.com. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
    5. http://www.legaseriea.it/it/serie-a-tim/match-report/2016-17/UNICO/UNI/13/LAZGEN
    6. "Elenco da Seleção Brasileira Sub 20 no Torneio de Toulon 2013". jogosdaselecaobrasileira.wordpress.com. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
    7. "Seleção Brasileira Sub-21 divulga convocados para Torneio de Toulon". esportes.terra.com.br. 9 July 2014.
    8. Wallace profile at Soccerway. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
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