Willian Borges's life and career journey in football

Willian Borges da Silva was born on August 9, 1988 in Ribeirao Pires, Brazil. He was born to the couple Severino da Silva and Maria da Silva. Willian was born into an ordinary family. His father is a businessman who sells various auto parts.

While his mother just passed away in 2016 ago. Willian said that the mother lost the battle against cancer. Previously, his mother had undergone a number of treatments, but his life remained beyond help.

As a child, Willian received support from his father to play ball. His father himself admitted that Willian was a boy who was very fond of football.

The story of Willian's childhood, as we know, has been set forth in a documentary titled Dream and Glories. The documentary tells the story of the life journey traversed by the Chelsea striker.

In the first episode, the story in the film Dream and Glories focuses on the beginning of Willian's love for soccer. The episode also tells about Willian's efforts to have a brilliant career in football games.

The film also features a former coach at his first club Corinthians and also his father. Interestingly, the film Dream and Glories also presents facts about the Chelsea striker from Brazil, one of which is about a broken leg.

Based on Willian's confession, he learned that his leg bones were broken when the mother woke him up to go to school. Willian realized his leg had been broken after he was unable to get out of bed to walk. However, Willian was not necessarily discouraged after knowing he broke a leg bone.

The attacker who is now 31 years old is challenged to continue to practice soccer. The effort made by Willian at that time proved to yield sweet results with achievements with his club at the age of six, namely Ribeirao Pires FC.

In the 2007/08 season, Willian signed a five-year contract with Shakhtar Donetsk. At that time, Shakhtar was willing to spend up to 14 million euros or the equivalent of 218 billion rupiah.

Willian's debut for the club came with a 2-1 league win over Chornomorets Odesa on September 15, 2007. He entered as a substitute in the 57th minute, replacing his Brazilian counterpart Jadson.

At Shakhtar's uniform, Willian managed to donate a number of titles, including four Ukrainian Premier League, three Ukrainian Cups, two Ukrainian Super Cups and one European Cup.

After undergoing an extraordinary season with Shakhtar, Willian then decided to leave to Russia with Anzhi Makhachkala.

But after only a few moments joining Anzhi, Willian finally officially became the latest Chelsea player. This happened after his work permit in England was granted. At that time Chelsea confirmed, 25-year-old Willian signed a contract for five years. Thus the player who was bought from Anzhi Makhachkala will be at Stamford Bridge until 2017.

The process of Willian's move to Chelsea is quite controversial. He was previously reportedly close to landing at another London club, Tottenham Hotspur. But after hearing of Mourinho's interest, the former Shakhtar Donetsk player finally chose the Blues.

Reportedly, Chelsea have to spend up to 32 million pounds or the equivalent of 585 billion rupiah.

Mourinho seemed pleased with the management movement in the hunt for the transfer market. He could not hide his amusement when he successfully disappointed his colleague and friend, Andre Villas-Boas.

Urged whether the former Shakhtar Donetsk player has chosen Chelsea, Mourinho nodded his head in slow motion. He leaked the secret about the success of the transfer is Chelsea know what the player wants.

According to Mourinho, Chelsea acted correctly in the recruitment process this time. Because, Willian conduct medical tests before signing the contract.

Chelsea's actions that play telikung raise unpleasant issues. They were accused of launching revenge against Spurs boss Daniel Levy over Luka Modric's transfer policy two years earlier. Chelsea, who almost got Modric, had to find their target players sold to Real Madrid.

Of course the developing issue was ignored by Chelsea. Chelsea management claimed Willian had entered the club's radar.

But Willian's trip at Chelsea did not go smoothly right away. He who came as a hopeful player instead appeared sluggish at the beginning of his career with Chelsea.

He received a lot of criticism. However, Willian did not remain silent. Two years after being recruited by Chelsea, Willian was able to prove its quality.

Around 2015, when almost all Chelsea players' performance was in decline, Willian actually improved. Willian's most obvious contribution was his goals. He contributed a number of goals, both in domestic competitions and the European Champions League.

What is special, all Willian goals are scored from free kick executions.

In the Premier League, the 31-year-old's magic was created when his free kick struck the Newcastle United net on September 26, 2015. Willian's goal saved Chelsea from the threat of defeat after The Toon Army won 2-1 first.

Execution of the free kick of the father of two children re-emerged when Chelsea serve Southampton at Stamford Bridge, on October 3, 2015. Willian's goal gave Chelsea a quick lead in the 10th minute. Unfortunately, Chelsea actually lost 1-3 because they could not maintain excellence.

The glory of the Brazilian-born player is contagious in the Champions League. The first goal from Willian's free kick was created in the Blues' first match in the Champions League against Maccabi Tel Aviv, September 17, 2015. At that time, Chelsea won a huge 4-0.

Likewise, when Chelsea lost 1-2 to FC Porto. Gol only Jose Jose Mourinho's troops when it came from Willian's free kick.

Willian then revealed the secret of his free kick at the time. One of the secrets of performance is hard training every day. According to him, there are no instant good results.

Another secret of Willian is his mental attitude. He realized, playing under Mourinho must be prepared with high demands from the manager.

For Willian, football is happiness. Money is not always the main motivation for world-class footballers like Willian.

Having been through various sharp criticisms, Willian managed to show his loyalty to the Chelsea club.

At Chelsea, he actually has plenty of time to leave the London club. Especially when Chelsea began to be abandoned by Jose Mourinho and failed to win the English League title. Although it must be admitted he was nervous when Antonio Conte became Chelsea's coach. However, he finally remained with Chelsea, when the club appointed Maurizzio Sarri.

This loyalty story surfaced when the non-Brazilian club strengthened by Willian, Shakhtar Donetsk, felt disappointed when he went to Anzhi Makhachkala.

Until now, Willian's performance still deserves to be regarded as one of the best.

Willian's happiness is not only growing from football, but also from his own family.

Willian is the husband of Vanessa Martins. The woman is known to be one of the best lifestyle bloggers in Portugal by offering tips and instructions on everything from fashion to food, health, fitness, and travel.

Amazingly, Vanessa did all this, without forgetting her role as wife and housewife.

The face of a sexy woman born in Lisbon in 1986, has been familiar on Portuguese television for years. He has starred in more than 300 episodes of television series.

Vanessa and Willian met in 2007. At that time, Vanessa was still an actress. And, at that time Willian was still in the Brazilian club Corinthians, before moving to Shakhtar Donetsk. Even though they had married, Vanessa remained in Portugal until 2011. A year later, the couple welcomed their twin daughters, Valentina and Manuela Willian.