Willian Souza Arao da Silva (born 12 March 1992) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A club Flamengo, as Defensive midfielder and Centre back.
Arao started his youth career playing for Sao Paulo and Corinthians, where he had his first professional experience, although Arao 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 Serie B.
In 2016 Arao 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.
International Career
On 19 January 2017 Arao was called up to the Brazil national team for the first time to play a friendly match against Colombia.
This page also has a version in other languages : Вилиан Аран (russian)