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Wagner Lopes is a very interesting character in the history of the J.League. Born in Brazil, Lopes moved to Japan at the age of 20 and Joined Nissan FC, earning a reputation as a good finisher and one of the team's leading scorers as the team prepared to join the newly created J.League. However, when Nissan became the Yokohama Marinos, they hired three Argentines to form their strike force -- Ramon Diaz, Ramon Medina Bello and David Bisconti. Lopes, a Brazilian, decided to stay in the JFL and try to help another aspiring team, Kashiwa Reysol, win a spot in the new League. After two years Reysol achieved success, but once again Lopes decided to remain in the JFL, this time joining Honda FC.
Unfortunately, by this time Lopes was on the downward slope of his career, and the World Cup proved to be his last hurrah. The next season he joined Nagoya Grampus, but had lost the scoring tough he showed in his earlier days. Wanting nothing else but to play on a regular basis, Lopes continued the long decline, moving from Grampus to FC Tokyo in 2001 and finally to Avispa Fukuoka in 2002. Because Lopes gained most of his "fame" after he was already on the road to becoming a washed-up hacker, , many people base their impression of his talent on the performances he made during his waning years. But that is hardly a fair basis for evaluating this player -- a deadly finisher who racked up an amazing 102 goals in 96 matches, during the early 1990s. Nevertheless, Lopes does still hold a share of the record for most goals scored in a J.League match (5 -- a mark he shares with Masashi Nakayama), and made many other contributions during the J.League's first decade.
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