Argentinian former player Agustin Cavalieri has coached in Major League Rugby since 2023. He has been a member of the Dallas Jackals (2023-2024), Anthem RC (2025-2026), and Old Glory DC (2027) coaching teams, as well as USA Rugby.

As a player, Cavalieri represented Argentina’s age grade sides up to Los Pumitas U21s before heading to Europe in 2003, representing Arras and Limoges for a year before heading to Italy where he spent the majority of his career. He primarily represented Petrarca Padova and Calvisano but also had stints with L’Aquila and Prato and even represented the Italy ‘A’ side. Cavalieri was player-coach with Calvisano when he called time on his playing career in 2019.

Cavalieri stepped into the Head Coach role with the Dallas Jackals ahead of the 2023 season having previously served as Forwards Coach for the Italian U20 side. He steered the Jackals for two seasons from 2023-2024, turning what had been a 0-16 team in 2022 into a playoff contender and conference finalist in 2024 and recording the first win in franchise history. Despite an overall record of 8-24 with the Jackals, they were arguably one of the most entertaining teams to watch and would have only continued to improve had they not withdrawn from MLR. Following this withdrawal, Agustin Cavalieri took up an Assistant coach role with the newly established MLR, USA Rugby, and World Rugby franchise, Anthem RC under Alama Ieremia.

Cavalieri served as Assistant Coach during from Anthem’s inaugural season in 2024, through to Round 12 of the 2025 season when Ieremia stepped back to focus on his other role of USA Men’s Assistant Coach. Cavalieri took over as Head Coach from Round 13 of the 2025 season, although could not prevent the team recording their 2nd 0-16 season in a row in 2025. In October 2025, USA Rugby announced that Alama Ieremia had stepped down from his roles with both USA Rugby and Anthem RC, and Agustin Cavalieri had joined the national Men’s team coaching setup as Assistant Coach (Forwards & Breakdown) alongside his role as Anthem RC Head Coach, which he continued with into the 2026 season. His first full year at the helm of Anthem starting strongly. The Rising Stars broke a MLR record 32-game losing streak to earn their first ever franchise victory in their first game of the season against the California Legion, with Cavalieri now able to boast that he led two previously winless franchises to their first even wins. Anthem followed up this victory with another win over the Seattle Seawolves two weeks later to sit with a 2-1 record after 3 games. From here however, Anthem reverted to their old ways and would go on a 7-game losing streak to finish the season despite remaining compeititive, and were still mathematically able to reach the postseason on the final weekend of the season, but finished 6th.

Following the 2026 MLR season and the cessation of World Rugby Funding for Anthem RC, the team ceased operations. All players and staff became free agents, including Cuca Cavalieri. On 30th September, Old Glory DC announced that they had hired Cavalieri as their Head Coach for the 2027 season following Simon Cross’ move to Director of Rugby Development and Player Pathways on August 24th. With this move, Cavalieri becomes just the 2nd Head Coach in MLR history to have taken charge of 3 different teams, following Steve Hoiles (Giltinis, RFCLA, California Legion).

Head Coach Record:

Overall: 11-37
Playoffs: 1-1
Anthem RC: 2-12
Dallas Jackals: 9-25