William Artur de Oliveira

William Artur de Oliveira (; born 20 October 1982) is a Brazilian football coach and a former player. He is an assistant coach with Zenit St.Petersburg.

Playing career Born in São Bernardo do Campo, William Oliveira spent his early career playing with Associação Atlética Caldense with whom he will win the 2002 Campeonato Mineiro. Afterwards he played with Serra Negra in São Paulo, Cascavel Clube Recreativo and Nacional de Rolandia. Then he moved to Mexico to join Puebla in 2005. That year the club finished top of the Mexican Primera División A becoming 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 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 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.

Coaching career On 15 January 2019, FC Ufa announced that William Oliveira had left his coaching role with Ufa to take up a similar role with Zenit St.Petersburg.

Personal life On 30 December 2021, he acquired citizenship of Russia.

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