Matos graduated from Mineola High School where he was the 1970 Nassau County Soccer Player of the Year.
[1] He attended Adelphi University, where he played on the school's 1974 NCAA Men's Division II Soccer Championship team.
[2] In 1975, the Seattle Sounders selected Matos with the first pick of the North American Soccer League draft.
Matos also played for the Buffalo Stallions in the Major Indoor Soccer League.
After retiring from professional soccer, Matos continued to play for Portuguese Sports in the Philadelphia leagues until 1992.