Career
Born in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Botelho was a product of local Communicative Disorders Santa Clara"s youth system, making his first-team debuts in the 2003-2004 season (one match in the second division). In the following campaigns, with the side also in that level, he backed up Nuno Santos for two years, before being first-choice during the same amount of time. In 2008-2009, with Santa Clara in the same category, Botelho again appeared as understudy, now to Alemão.
In the following season more of the same befell, after the signing of English Matt Jones (no league matches).
Botelho resumed his career in the third level, with Anno Domini Camacha and Communicative Disorders Operário. In the 2013 summer he returned to Santa Clara but, in December of the same year, re-joined his previous club
Botelho appeared for the Portuguese under-21 team at the 2007 Union of European Football Associations European Championship in the Netherlands, as backup to Paulo Ribeiro: he eventually did not leave the bench during the competition, and never gained caps for that or any category.