Wallace Fortuna dos Santos (born 14 October 1994), known as simply Wallace, is a Brazilian professional

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who currently plays for

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club

Wuhan Three Towns Wuhan Three Towns Football Club () is a professional football club that currently participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The club is based in Wuhan, Hubei and their home stadium is the ...

as a

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Club career

A youth product of Cruzeiro, Wallace caused great stir when football agent Jorge Mendes's

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paid €9.5 million 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 Sporting Clube de Braga () (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese ...

which owned 10% economic rights (for the future transfer fee), with a release clause at €40 million. 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,

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club

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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

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. On 30 September 2020, Wallace joined Turkish

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club

Yeni Malatyaspor Yeni Malatyaspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Malatya, Turkey. The club plays in the TFF First League, which is the second tier of football in the country. History Founded in 1986 as Malatya Belediyespor. Its prim ...

. On 26 January 2022, his contract with Yeni Malatyaspor was terminated by mutual consent. On 15 February 2022, Wallace joined

club

International career

Wallace represented the Brazil U-20 at the 2013 and 2014 editions of the

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Career statistics

Club

Honours

Cruzeiro *

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Br ...

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Campeonato Mineiro Campeonato Mineiro is the state football league of the state of Minas Gerais and is controlled by the Minas Gerais Football Federation FMF (Federação Mineira de Futebol). The history of Campeonato Mineiro can be divided into two parts: befor ...

: 2014 Lazio *

Supercoppa Italiana The Supercoppa Italiana ( en, Italian Super Cup) is an annual football match contested by the winners of the Serie A and the Coppa Italia in the previous season. If the same team wins both the Serie A and Coppa Italia titles in the previous seaso ...

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Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...

: 2018–19 Brazil U20 *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace (footballer, born 1994 10) 1994 births Living people Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city) Association football central defenders Brazilian footballers Brazilian expatriate footballers Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players S.C. Braga players S.S. Lazio players AS Monaco FC players Yeni Malatyaspor footballers Wuhan Three Towns F.C. players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Primeira Liga players Ligue 1 players Serie A players Süper Lig players Chinese Super League players Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Monaco Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Turkey Expatriate footballers in China Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Monaco Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in China