Early Years
Nicknamed Pillín and El Primer Crack, he started playing basketball and tennis at the Gymnastics and Tennis Club of Villa del Parque. He would go on to concentrate in basketball in the youth divisions of Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Villa del Parque. After his debut with the first team in 1944, he would go on to win 6 league titles (1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951 and 1954) in the now defunct amateur Argentine Basketball Federation.
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