As a young child he was already allowed to play matches with the first team, and had won the District championship on a few occasions before moving to the Capital Paramaribo to join the youth ranks of S.V.
Progressing through the ranks, Rigters made his debut for the first team in 1974 playing his first full season in the SVB Hoofdklasse at age 18.
Robinhood right after the team had returned from a trip to the Netherlands, where they had lost to AFC Ajax 4–3 and defeated HFC Haarlem in a 3–1 win.
[2] In 1977, he helped Robinhood to the 1977 CONCACAF Champions' Cup final for the second time in a row where they faced Club América from Mexico, losing 2–1 on aggregate score.
[3] In 1982, he helped Robinhood back to a second-place finish at the 1982 CONCACAF Champions' Cup where they faced Pumas UNAM from Mexico in the final, losing 3–2 on aggregate score.
Robinhood lost to SBV Excelsior 1–0, and Kleurrijk 2–1, while defeating PEC Zwolle 2–1, and drawing equal with HFC Haarlem 1–1, and FC Volendam 3–3.
[7] After relocating to Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rigters played for Real Sranang in the Vierde Klasse of amateur football in the Netherlands for one season, playing on a team with the likes of Errol Emanuelson, Guno Zorgvol, Ronald Amelo, Jules Polanen and Ryan Bindraba, all former players in Suriname, before he eventually retired from the sport.
[8] Rigters played for the Suriname national team for almost the entirety of his professional career, except for a period in 1978 when he was not called up by Dutch manager Rob Groener.