Born in 1985 in Buenos Aires, Lucas Rivas is a professional football coach and a member of the Argentinian Association of Football Coaches (ATFA).He started his career in Mexico in 2007, where was in charge of an affiliate team of Club Atlante in the Fourth Division Premier. At the same time he acted as the Sporting Director of the Mexican club's youth divisions. The following year he started a long relationship with Argentina's Club Atlético Lanús. There, he was a staff member of the Coordinación General de Fútbol Juvenil and was an on-field assistant coach for Leandro Sime in the fourth division. In 2011 he joined the first team staff as a Tactical Analyst for the first division. He worked in this capacity until 2015, becoming a specialist in Argentine soccer and winning the Copa Sudamericana in 2013 with Guillermo Barros Schelotto as head coach.He also collaborated with Marcelo Bielsa's staff on the Chilean national team, where he created videos and reports about Chilean players who were playing with Argentinian teams.Then in 2016, Ezequiel Carboni summoned him to become assistant coach for Lanús' second team ("Reserva"). A year later, in 2017, they took over the first division team. In 2018, they coached at Argentinos Juniors.In 2019 he received a call from Javier Sanguinetti, who invited him to be part of his technical team as an on-field assistant for Club Sol America of Paraguay. After this experience, in 2020, Rivas joined Nicolás Larcamón's technical staff at Chile's CD Provincial Curico Unido.Later in 2020 he was once again at Sanguinetti's side; this time at Argentina's Banfield, where they had an excellent campaign and reached the final of the Copa Diego Maradona.