Career
Vitória
Obina caught attention in 2004 when he made a solid season, despite the relegation of his club, Vitória. He scored 24 goals that season, 19 in the Brazilian Série A, being the top scorer of the team along with Edílson. At the end of that year he has been transferred to First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ittihad.
Flamengo
Flamengo"s supporters like to refer to him as the Brazilian Samuel Eto"o (they usually chant ôôôô Obina é melhor que o Eto"o, "Obina is better than Eto"o"), a joke-reference to the Cameroonian Chelsea Football Club player.
He has often been compared with Fio Maravilha for his folkloric charm. Kléber Leite, Flamengo"s Director of Football, once referred to him as being "culturally naive."
During Flamengo"s Taça Guanabara semi-final match against Vasco da Gama on February 25, 2007, Obina injured his left knee"s anterior cruciate ligament after scoring in the second minute of the match.
Flamengo"s doctors estimated that he will be out of action for six months. Just a few games after his awaited return, Obina was suspended for 120 days after hitting Internacional"s player Índio with his elbow during Flamengo"s match against that team on September 8, 2007.
Palmeiras
Obina was loaned to Palmeiras on May 25, 2009 until the end of the 2009 season.
On November 18, 2009 Obina was involved in some trouble with his teammate Maurício, both argued and tried to hit each other after the incident. Both were resigned from the club with two matches left to play in the season. Atlético Mineiro
After a very brief stay in Flamengo, for merely two weeks (the first two of 2010), Obina signed a three years contract with Atlético Mineiro prior to their first official game of the season, against América Mineiro, on January 24, 2010.
The contract grants Atlético Mineiro 50% of the rights over Obina, and it cost the club approximately 700,000 euros.