SOCCER PLAYER

Willian Arão

1992 - Today

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Willian Souza Arão da Silva (born 12 March 1992) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or a centre-back for Greek Super League club Panathinaikos. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willian Arão has received more than 259,408 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Willian Arão is the 8,659th most popular soccer player (up from 11,215th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 1,499th in 2019) and the 669th most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Willian Arãos by language

Over the past year Willian Arão has had the most page views in the with 112,635 views, followed by English (65,902), and Turkish (34,181). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (5,262.50%), Russian (1,848.88%), and Arabic (871.84%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Willian Arão ranks 8,659 out of 21,273. Before him are Yaw Preko, Willie Ormond, Bertrand Crasson, René Valenzuela, Gonçalo Paciência, and Djibril Sow. After him are Carlos Eduardo, Roberto Gagliardini, Jota, Léonard Kweuke, José Pilar Reyes, and Alessandro Melli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1992, Willian Arão ranks 262. Before him are Zhou Dongyu, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Lee Jae-sung, Lyna Khoudri, Saphir Taïder, and Alexey Lutsenko. After him are Sofia Goggia, Jannik Schümann, Dodô, Jonas Bloquet, Quentin Fillon Maillet, and Jim Gottfridsson.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Willian Arão ranks 1,160 out of 2,236. Before him are Denílson Pereira Neves (1988), Edivaldo Hermoza (1985), André Luiz Moreira (1974), Maria Rita (1977), Sheilla Castro (1983), and Victor Leandro Bagy (1983). After him are Carlos Eduardo (1987), Márcio Nobre (1980), Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves (1966), Marcelo (1987), Dodô (1992), and Ricardo Santos (1975).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Willian Arão ranks 669. Before him are Ismaily (1990), Andradina (1974), Denílson Pereira Neves (1988), Edivaldo Hermoza (1985), André Luiz Moreira (1974), and Victor Leandro Bagy (1983). After him are Carlos Eduardo (1987), Márcio Nobre (1980), Antônio Rinaldo Gonçalves (1966), Marcelo (1987), Dodô (1992), and César Aparecido Rodrigues (1974).

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