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Army Men learn to Love again

Published time: January 13, 2013 10:14
Edited time: January 13, 2013 14:14
CSKA Moscow's former forward, Vagner Love, says farewell to fans in summer 2012. (RIA Novosti / Alexey Kudenko)

After a year of absence, Brazilian striker Vagner Love is making a comeback to Russian Premier League leaders CSKA Moscow.

­Vagner has already bid farewell to his partners at Flamengo and began packing for Russia.

The decision on the move was made after the 28-year-old striker met up with the Rio de Janeiro club’s new president, Eduardo Bandeira de Mello, who found CSKA’s offer beneficial.  

According to the local media, the Muscovites offered to write off Flamengo’s 6-million-euro debt for Vagner’s transfer, with the play getting a rich personal contract as well.

Love has scored 15 goals in his 41 games for Flamengo this season.

Vagner is the most successful foreigner in Russian football history.

During his stay with CSKA in 2004–2012, he netted 117 goals, winning two domestic championships and the UEFA Cup.

But he always felt homesick and the Moscow club had to lend him to Brazilian sides Palmeiras and Flamengo on two occasions.

Love’s arrival will be a huge boost for CSKA in the title race as two of their first-choice strikers Seydou Doumbia and Tomas Necid out of action after serious injuries.

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somebloke (unregistered) 14.01.2013 20:05

American Boy, your country is becoming a police state, black people aren't responsible for that. Whites hold power and sway in the US not blacks, I don't recall it being blacks who let Mexicans or giving Mexican drug gangs guns. Also blacks were in the Americas long before white people.

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American Boy (unregistered) 14.01.2013 14:03

Diversity equals conflict. Anyone who is advocating Russia or Europe open their borders to 3rd world immigrants is an enemy of their people. Before you begin calling people heretics/racists, come visit any American city that has a large black population.  You will leave with a new understanding of the massive problems you will be importing. Blacks have ruined every city where they are found in large numbers. EVERY SINGLE ONE.  They are violent and more racist than any other people on the planet. They cannot build or maintain a first world nation. They add nothing to your community except violence and crime and take away much in welfare and state handouts. This is the reality. Russia I believe has had enough utopian nonsense sold to them in the last 100 years. Stay Russian, keep the immigrants out or you will become the craphole Babylon that is America. Come to America and walk through the downtown of Atlanta, Birmingham, Detroit, Los Angeles or Chicago. You might not make it out alive if you are white. That's what you want for Europe, for Russia? Not unless you are insane, evil or simply too stupid to see.

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LatinAmerican (unregistered) 13.01.2013 21:43

In truth requires a very deep study the rise of xenophobic and racist sentiments in the former educated Eastern Europe. That irrational nationalism allows things like that in Latvia, Estonia and Litunuania; citizens of Russian origin are treated like dogs

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