Assistant coaches Lucas Rodríguez Pagano, Leandro Stillitano, and Javier Morales, goalkeeper coach Mauro Dobler, fitness coach Pablo Blanco, and video analysts Lucio Stortoni and Erik Marquis will make up head coach Javier Mascherano’s coaching staff.
Morales and Marquis are back with the Club for a third and second consecutive season, respectively, while Rodríguez Pagano, Stillitano, Dobler, Blanco, and Stortoni will continue to work with Mascherano after serving as members of his coaching staff for Argentina’s U-20 and U-23 national teams.
After playing for Argentina’s national teams from 2022 to 2024, Rodríguez Pagano joins Inter Miami as an assistant coach. In addition, he has served as Vélez Sarsfield’s assistant coach (2017), Club Atlético Lanús’ youth teams coordinator (2018–2022), Club Atlético Rosario Central’s assistant coach (2022), and Club Atlético Aldosivi’s assistant coach (2022).
Before becoming a coach, Rodríguez Pagano played defender for several teams in Argentina for more than ten years. He also had stints abroad in Brazil, Cyprus, Germany, and Paraguay before retiring in 2014.
Stillitano, who most recently served as Argentina’s national team’s assistant coach from 2023 to 2024, will be joining the First Team for the forthcoming season. His background as a coach also includes his time as assistant coach of Club Social y Deportivo Defensa y Justicia (2015-2016), assistant coach (2017 to 2019) and manager of the reserves (2019) of Club Atlético Independiente prior to managing the first team during a second spell (2023), assistant coach of Club Tijuana (2020), and assistant coach of Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo (2020 to 2022). Notably, he helped Independiente win the Copa Sudamericana title (2017) and the Suruga Bank Championship title (2018), while also winning two other titles while being part of Colo-Colo’s coaching staff: a Chilean First Division title (2022) and a Supercopa de Chile title (2022). Prior to his coaching career, Stillitano played as a midfielder for several Argentine clubs before retiring in 2009.
Morales retains his position as First Team assistant coach after serving the role over the past two seasons in 2023 and 2024, notably helping the Club clinch its historic first two titles in the process: the 2023 Leagues Cup and the 2024 MLS Supporters’ Shield. Additionally, he also served as Inter Miami’s interim head coach for six fixtures in 2023. Morales initially joined Inter Miami in early 2019 as an Academy coach. In 2022, he led Inter Miami’s U-17 side to the semifinals of the 2022 Generation adidas Cup, a first-place finish in the U-17 East (South) Division, and qualified the team for MLS NEXT U-17 playoffs. The former midfielder – nicknamed ‘El Maestro’ – enjoyed a successful 11-year stay in MLS with Real Salt Lake and later on FC Dallas, in which he racked up 255 regular season appearances and 21 playoff appearances, registering a total 53 goals and 92 assists, between 2007 and 2017. In 2009 in his second season in the league, Morales helped RSL clinch the 2009 MLS Cup title, the only one in club history to date.
After serving as the Argentine Football Association’s goalkeeper coach and coordinator from 2018 to 2024, including as a member of the coaching staff for Argentina’s 2024 Copa América-winning squad and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Dobler joins the Club as the goalkeeper coach for the First Team. He finished his playing career in 2016 after serving as a goalie for a number of Argentine teams, including the dominant Club Estudiantes de la Plata, before going into coaching.
After a third stint with Argentina’s national teams, including coaching the U-20 team from 2022 to 2024, Blanco joins Inter Miami as the newest fitness coach for the First Team.
Additionally, he has served as Argentina’s national team’s fitness coach from 2011 to 2014 and in 2024, and stints as fitness coach for Club Estudiantes de La Plata and (2009 to 2011) and Club Atlético Independiente (2018 to 2019).
Stortoni joins the First Team coaching staff as video analyst after being performance analyst for Argentina’s U-20 and U-23 sides from 2022 to 2024. His previous experience includes being data analyst for Colo-Colo (2021 to 2022) and for Club Leon FC (2021 to 2022).
For the second year in a row, Marquis continues to serve as Inter Miami’s video analyst. He first joined the Club in 2023 as a member of Inter Miami CF II, the Club’s MLS NEXT Pro affiliate. Marquis has three years of MLS coaching experience, having served as the Performance Analyst for Atlanta United FC (2021–2022) and the LA Galaxy (2020–2021).
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