[2][3] As a child, he played mostly indoor football; his first experience on a field was with his grandfather's amateur league.
[2] Posso only ever wanted to be a soccer player and started working selling tickets at 14 to try something new, but left home at 15 to join Cruzeiro's youth team.
[6] In 2004, Ipatinga won the Minas Gerais Cup and were state vice and semifinalists at the Copa do Brasil in 2006.
[14] After retiring, he established a football school called the Rodrigo Passo Sports (RPS) Escola de Futebol[15][16] in the municipality of Ipatinga.
[18] Posso has spent more time in Minas Gerais than he has in Paraná and feels more at home in Ipatinga, particularly because he was married and raised his children there.