 After failing to have success as footballer, he involved in football management, beginning at Newell's Old Boys football academy in 2001.Since 2003, aged twenty three, he worked as Jorge Sampaoli’s assistant coach, joining alongside him to Peruvian side Sport Boys from Callao.After four years at the Peruvian football, in 2008, they moved to Chilean top-level club O'Higgins, staying there until August of the incoming year.