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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | William Rocha Batista | ||
| Date of birth | (1980-07-27)July 27, 1980 (age 45) | ||
| Place of birth | São Paulo,Brazil | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1996–1998 | Portuguesa Santista | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2000 | Portuguesa Santista | ||
| 2000–2001 | União Barbarense | ||
| 2001–2002 | Levski Sofia | 1 | (0) |
| 2002 | →Spartak Pleven (loan) | 9 | (1) |
| 2003–2005 | Opava | 15 | (5) |
| 2005–2008 | Karpaty Lviv | 68 | (22) |
| 2008 | FC Kharkiv | 9 | (2) |
| 2009 | →FK Baku (loan) | 8 | (5) |
| 2009–2012 | Karpaty Lviv | 54 | (13) |
| 2012 | Obolon Kyiv | 1 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
William Rocha Batista (born 27 July 1980) is a formerBrazilian professionalfootballer who played as anattacking midfielder orforward.
Batista started his career in the smallBrazilian clubPortuguesa Santista at the age of 16, and after several seasons there he moved to anotherBrazilian Third Division club,União Barbarense.
Batista then signed forBulgarian sideLevski Sofia, but having failed to secure a regular place in the first team he moved to theCzech clubSFC Opava in 2005. That winter, Batista signed a contract with theUkrainian clubKarpaty Lviv. In a successful two-year spell, Batista regularly featured among the league's top scorers, with ten goals from 24 games in the2006–2007 season.
During the summer of 2007, there was speculation thatDynamo Kyiv was 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 forFC Kharkiv in a UAH 7.6 million joint deal with Karpaty team-mateAlyaksey Suchkow. For the2008–09 Season, Batista played 9 games and scored 2 goals.
After theFC Kharkiv's last match of the year against Metalurh, the head coachMykhailo Stelmakh stated that he would be forming a completely new team for the second part of the 2008–09 season.[1] After going on trial toFK Baku, Baptista impressed the club and the vice-president of Baku Zeynal Mamedov said that "Batista will play on the basis of loan until the end of this season. He set a good impression during the exhibition games to head coachGjoko Hadžievski, who would like the transfer to be completed."[2]
In August 2009, Batista accepted an offer to return toKarpaty Lviv.