Born in Rio de Janeiro, Urubatão joined the youth setup of Bonsucesso in 1947.
He returned to his home country, and represented Jabaquara and Ponte Preta before retiring in 1965, aged 34.
[1][2] Urubatão played one match for the Brazil national football team, a 1–2 Roca Cup loss against Argentina at the Maracanã Stadium on 7 July 1957.
[4] Urubatão was subsequently in charge of a number of clubs, notably managing América-SP on five occasions,[5] Portuguesa, Sport Recife, Londrina (where he won the 1981 Campeonato Paranaense),[6] Goiás and Coritiba,[7] but mainly worked in the São Paulo state.
Urubatão died on 24 September 2010, aged 77, due to a brain tumor.