Role Footballer Date joined 2012 Name William de Number 6 (FC Ufa / Defender) | 2002 Caldense Weight 79 kg Years Team Height 1.82 m Position Defender, Midfielder | |
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Full name William Artur de Oliveira Date of birth (1982-10-20) 20 October 1982 (age 33) Place of birth Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil | ||
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William Artur de Oliveira (born 20 October 1982) is a Brazilian footballer who last played for Russian club Ufa.
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Club career
Born in São Bernardo do Campo, William spent his early career playing with Associação Atlética Caldense with whom he will win the 2002 Campeonato Mineiro. Afterwords he played with Serra Negra in Sao Paulo, Cascavel Clube Recreativo and Nacional de Rolandia. Then he moved to Mexico to join Puebla F.C. in 2005. That year the club finished top of the Mexican Primera División A becaming the 2005 Apertura champions.
In 2006, he was back to Brazil playing with Esporte Clube Águia Negra but by the end of the year he will move again abroad, this time to play with Serbian First League side FK Srem. His good exhibitions called the attention of Serbian SuperLiga club OFK Beograd who brought him in January 2008.
He scored seven league goals in 22 matches in the Serbian top flight with OFK and by the winter break of the 2008-09 season he was moving to Russia to join Premier League side FC Amkar Perm. He also spent few months with Shinnik Yaroslavl, before joining Dynamo Bryansk in the summer of 2010. He stayed two years in Bryansk, collecting 56 league appearances and scoring one goal. In July 2012, he signed a two-year contract with Ufa.