Caetano Vagner Pereira
Pula celebrating a goal for Russia in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Vágner Kaetano Pereira | ||
| Date of birth | 2 December 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Playing position | Pivot | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Dinamo Moskva | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –2004 | Carlos Barbosa | ||
| 2004–06 | Arbat | ||
| 2006– | Dinamo Moskva | ||
| National team | |||
| 2008–2014 | Russia | 52 | (47) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Vágner Kaetano Pereira, a.k.a. Pula (Russian Cyrillic: Пула) (born 2 December 1980) is a Brazilian-born Russian futsal player who plays for MFK Dinamo Moskva and Russian national futsal team as a pivot.
He played for Russia at the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup in his homeland, Brazil, and ended the tournament as top scorer with 18 goals, the first on 2 October in a 10–5 win over Cuba. Nine of them came in a 31–2 group win over the Solomon Islands, the most by a player in the World Cup and biggest win by a team. He then scored the sixth in a 9–1 win over Japan. In the second match of the second group phase, he scored a hat-trick as Russia beat Paraguay 5–4. Pula scored a goal against Brazil but lost 4–2.
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