 Ciorciari first started to play as a professional in Argentina in 1997, when he was only 17, playing for Ferro Carril Oeste with Luis Scola and Federico Kammerichs among others.Because he was the youngest player of the team, the speaker nicknamed him "El 'pichón' Ciorciari", being "pichón" a baby bird.Despite his height, in 2001 he won the LNB Slam Dunk Contest against Walter Herrmann, after having lost the final the year before.