William Batista

Football player infobox
playername = William Batista


full name = William Rocha Batista
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1980|7|27
cityofbirth = São Paulo
countryofbirth = Brazil
height = height|m=1.86
position = Forward
currentclub = FC Kharkiv
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youthclubs = Portuguesa Santista
youthyears = 1996-1998
years = 1998-
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2005
2005-2007
2008-
clubs = Portuguesa Santista
União Barbarense
Levski Sofia
Opava
Karpaty Lviv
FC Kharkiv
caps(goals) = ? (?)
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65 (22)

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

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.

External links

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