Born in
Santa Maria da Feira,
Aveiro District, Mingote's professional input in his homeland consisted of 66
Segunda Liga games over the course of five seasons, with
Associação Naval 1º de Maio and
A.D. Ovarense. In
2004–05, he played understudy to
Sérgio Leite as the latter club finished in 12th position. During the 2008 January
transfer window, Mingote left for Romania – where he would remain the following decade – and signed with
CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu from lower league side
A.D. Lousada. In the
2012–13 campaign, he contributed with 26 games to help the former team to a best-ever second place in
Liga I. Mingote left the
Stadionul Municipal in the summer of 2016, going on to represent
ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș and
CS Universitatea Craiova. ==Honours==