1990 – 2003

Purchased in 1990 by Giallorossi president Dino Viola for 6 billion lire, he spent thirteen seasons in the ranks of Roma, with whom he won an Italian Cup in the 1990-1991 season, a Serie A championship in 2000-2001 and an Italian Super Cup in 2001.

Nicknamed Pluto by Roma fans, he became one of the symbols of the Capitoline team, establishing himself as one of the strongest defenders in the world; thanks to his elegance and class, he became the backbone of the Roma defense.

At the beginning of the 1998-1999 season, after the departure of Abel Balbo, he was listed as the team’s new captain, but after a few months he relinquished the armband to the then emerging talent Francesco Totti.
The 2002-2003 season is his last with the Roma jersey. At the end of the season, to celebrate his long militancy with the Capitoline Giallorossi, Aldair Day was organized on the evening of June 2, 2003, with a soccer match between Roma and the Brazilian national team in which Aldair played the first half with the South Americans and the second half with the Capitolini.

On the occasion, the Giallorossi club, in his honor, initially decided to retire his number 6 jersey; the choice persisted at Roma for the next ten years, until the 2013-2014 season, when the jersey was also assigned again at the urging of Aldair himself. Previously, on September 20, 2012, the Brazilian had been among the first 11 players to be inducted into the capital club’s hall of fame.