Damián Ayude

Damián Ayude (born 14 April 1982) is an Argentine football manager, currently in charge of San Lorenzo.

Damián Ayude

Personal information
Date of birth	(1982-04-14) 14 April 1982 (age 43)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Team information
Current team	San Lorenzo (manager)
Managerial career
Years	Team
2003–2004	Nueva Chicago (youth)
2005–2006	Chacarita Juniors (youth)
2007–2015	Argentinos Juniors (youth)
2016	Deportivo Anzoátegui (assistant)
2017	Sportivo Estudiantes (assistant)
2017–2018	Unión San Felipe
2018	Barracas Central (assistant)
2019–2021	Argentina U20 (assistant)
2019–2021	Argentina U23 (assistant)
2022	Venezuela U17
2023	León (assistant)
2024	Cruzeiro (assistant)
2024–2025	San Lorenzo (reserves)
2025–	San Lorenzo

Career

Born in Buenos Aires, Ayude worked in the youth sides of Nueva Chicago, Chacarita Juniors and Argentinos Juniors before joining Nicolás Larcamón's staff at Venezuelan side Deportivo Anzoátegui in 2016, as his assistant. He left the latter in December, and subsequently became Omar Asad's assistant at Sportivo Estudiantes back in his home country.^[1]

On 19 September 2017, Ayude was announced as manager of Primera B de Chile side Unión San Felipe.^[2] Despite avoiding relegation with the side, he was sacked on 27 February 2018, after a poor start of the new season.^[3]

In 2019, Ayude became a part of Fernando Batista's staff at the Argentina national under-20 and under-23 teams.^[4] On 9 July 2022, he moved to Venezuela with Batista, after being named manager of the Venezuela national under-17 team.^[5]

In 2023, Ayude reunited with Larcamón after becoming his assistant at León. He followed Larcamón to Cruzeiro under the same role in December of that year,^[6] but left in April 2024 when Larcamón was sacked.

On 29 April 2024, Ayude was appointed manager of San Lorenzo's reserve team.^[7] On 4 June of the following year, he was named in charge of the first team, replacing Miguel Ángel Russo.^[8][9]