Ceará Sporting Club
Born in Recife, Paquito played in his country with lowly Associação Atlética Internacional (Limeira) and Ceará Sporting Club, also having played four years in Portugal, with S.C. Salgueiros in the first division and C.D. Aves and S.C. Covilhã in the second, in the 1999/early 2000s.