[3] While playing for Flamengo, he was nicknamed Deus da Raça ("God of Determination") by the club's supporters,[4] due to his will to win.
[4] His son, Antônio José Rondinelli Tobias Júnior, born in 1979 in Rio de Janeiro, is also a footballer.
[4] Rondinelli opened a football academy in his home city, São José do Rio Pardo, named Deus da Raça.
[4] In 2003, a documentary telling Rondinelli's story, directed and written by Felipe Nepomuceno and Pedro Asbeg, and produced by Raça Filmes, which is a company based in Rio de Janeiro city, was released.
[7] Besides winning the Bola de Prata in 1978, Rondinelli won the following honors during his playing career: