William Batista

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William Batista
Personal information
Date of birth	July 27, 1980 (1980-07-27) (age 27)
Place of birth	São Paulo, Brazil
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	FC Kharkiv
Youth clubs
1996-1998	Portuguesa Santista
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998- - - 2005 2005-2007 2008-	Portuguesa Santista União Barbarense Levski Sofia Opava Karpaty Lviv FC Kharkiv	? (?)  ? (?) ? (?) ? (?) 65 (22)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

William Rocha Batista is a professional Brazilian football player currently playing for FC Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

[edit] Career

Batista started his career in a small Brazilian club Portuguesa Santista at the age of 16, and after several seasons there he moved to another Brazilian Third Division club União Barbarense.

Batista then signed for Bulgarian side Levski Sofia, but having failed to secure a regular spot in the first team he moved to Czech club SFC Opava in 2005. In the winter of the same year Batista signed a contract with Ukrainian club Karpaty Lviv. In a successful two-year spell Batista regularly featured amongst the league's top scorers, with ten goals from 24 games in the 2006-2007 season.

During the summer of 2007 speculation arose that Dynamo Kyiv were interested in his services, to which Batista responded that he was under contract to Karpaty and had no desire to move. However, in January 2008, Batista signed for FC Kharkiv in a UAH 7.6 million joint deal with Karpaty team-mate Oleksiy Suchkov.

[edit] External links

• (Portuguese) CBF