Willian Arão

Willian Souza Arão da Silva (born 12 March 1992) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Santos. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a centre-back. Arão started his youth career playing for São Paulo and Corinthians, where he had his first professional experience, although Arão spend most of his following years playing on loan for different Brazilian clubs, including a very consistent 2015 season with Botafogo winning the 2015 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. In 2016 Arão was involved in a very complicated transfer to Flamengo with Botafogo complaining about the way their rivals approached the player. The situation is still to be solved in the Brazilian justice court.