Number 13 Name Wallace dos Height 1.91 m Career start 2013 | Playing position Role Footballer Weight 83 kg | |
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Full name Wallace Fortuna dos Santos Date of birth (1994-10-14) October 14, 1994 (age 21) Similar People Wallace Reis da Silva, Marcelo Oliveira, Joel Santana, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, Vagner Mancini Profiles | ||
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.
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Club career
A youth product of Cruzeiro, Wallace caused great stir when football agent Jorge Mendes's Gestifute paid €9.5M to sign him from Cruzeiro in early July 2014. However, as his registration rights as a footballer must owned by a football club, Wallace was "signed" by S.C. Braga which owned 10% economic rights (for the future transfer fee), with a release clause at €40M.
On 21 August 2014, without ever playing for Braga, he was loaned to AS Monaco, in a loan deal set by Jorge Mendes.
On 29 July 2016, Serie A club Lazio announced that they had definitively purchased Wallace from Braga for €8 million. He scored his first goal for the club on 20 November 2016 in a 3–1 home win over Genoa.
International career
Wallace represented the Brazil U-20 at the 2013 and 2014 edition's of the Toulon Tournament.