The following year, he joined Botafogo where he played against Sport Club do Recife in the Brazil Cup which resulted 1–1 draw.

At São Caetano, Ceará broke into the first team and the club was able to achieve success when they won Campeonato Paulista.

In the same season, Ceará was the skilled defensive player who has been increasingly used at the time as well as left-right-back, making 26 appearances and scoring 1.

Ceará was still a regular place as he made ten league games (+ 1 goal) before he took shortly after a shift to Europe.

[1][2] Ceará made his debut for the club, coming on as substitute after 84 minutes for Amara Diané in a match against AS Monaco which PSG won 2–1 on 16 September 2007.

On 15 March 2008, Ceará scored an own goal in a 1–1 against Valenciennes which PSG were losing until Pauleta equalizer give both clubs a draw.

In his first season, Ceara struggled to find his best form, and made a few high-profile mistakes that contributed to a poor campaign for his club.

In the Coupe de la Ligue Final, Ceará played in the right back as PSG won the Coupe de la Ligue for third time against Lens 2–1 with a winning goal from substitute Bernard Mendy on stoppage time.

What made it worse when PSG became sixth place which resulted missing out on Europa League qualification or play-off-grid positions and didn't win either Coupe de France (eliminated in Round of 16) and Coupe de la Ligue (eliminated in semi-final), without winning a single title.

The following season in 2009/10, the club appointed a new manager Antoine Kombouaré after Paul Le Guen left due to expiry of his contract.

Despite the Coupe de France, the club also participate in Emirates Cup (which they became second) and Trophée des Champions where they lose to Le Classique rival Olympique de Marseille on penalties following Ludovic Giuly missed and Édouard Cissé struck the winning penalty to win the cup.

After initially always acted on the full playing time, he also worked to recover from injury to join the team as a regular force, which he did sometimes.

PSG beat Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv 5–4 aggregate in the play-off round to go Group Stage.

In the Knockout stage, PSG beat BATE Borisov on away goal in first round before being eliminated in last 16 by Portuguese side Benfica 3–2 on aggregate, thus out of Europa League.

The following season in 2011/12, Ceará was linked with Brazilian side Santos who offered him a three-year contract but he rejected made the choice of the heart and on 16 September 2011, he signed a one-year deal, extend his stay until 2013.

Ceará feels that their manager Ancelotti why he offered no explanation as to why he has been dropped and admits his situation is unlikely to change any time soon and claims to be at a loss to explain his snub, with no-one having communicated to him why he now finds himself on the bench.