Reject by the club in 1974, at 19, he left Rio de Janeiro towards Aracaju (SE) to start his professional career at Confiança.

His good performances granted him the 1976 Sergipe State Championship and a transference to Santa Cruz FC in the same year.

Due to an injury, he was not selected to play the 1978 FIFA World Cup which made him miserable.

In 1983 we went on a one-year-loan to Botafogo and in the following year he transferred from Flamengo to Náutico, where he won another Pernambuco State Championship (1985).

He would briefly return to Flamengo once again in 1987 and, although not a regular starter, he was a member of the squad that won the Brazilian league again that year.