His best years were while he was at Botafogo, where he was three times the Brazilian top scorer (1989, 1994 and 1995) and won the 1995 Campeonato Brasileiro.

[citation needed] With the national team, Túlio was famous for scoring a controversial equalizer against Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 1995 Copa América in Uruguay in which he committed a deliberate handball.

[3] Túlio played one more time for the Brazil national team, scoring two goals against Colombia, at a friendly match in Manaus-AM (Vivaldo Lima stadium).

[4] His son, Tulio Humberto Pereira da Costa Filho, was born on the same date as his father.

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