[1][2][3] Canavesi began playing club basketball in Argentina, with the youth teams of Parque Chacabuco, in 1937.

In 1941, he began playing club basketball in Argentina, at the senior men's level, with Club Gymnasia y Esgrima de Villa del Parque.

With that club, he won the Argentine Federation League championship, as a player-coach, in 1945.

At the senior men's club level, Canavesi first worked as a player-coach of the Argentine Club Gymnasia y Esgrima de Villa del Parque.

Canavesi was the head coach of the senior men's Argentine national basketball team.