Moisés was born in Resende, Rio de Janeiro state,[2] on January 10, 1948,[3] and started his career playing for Bonsucesso, then he moved to Flamengo in 1968, and returned in the same year to Bonsucesso.

[4] He played for Botafogo between 1969 and the beginning of 1971, participating in the 1968 Taça Brasil title, this edition of the championship that continued throughout 1969,[5] and played from 1971 to 1976 for Vasco, where he won the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in 1974.

[4] Moisés played one game for the Brazilian team, against the Soviet Union, on June 21, 1973, at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow.

[2] Moisés died on August 26, 2008, in Rio de Janeiro,[13] of lung cancer.

[3] He was buried at Cemitério São João Batista, in Botafogo neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro.