Not the same luck was he going to have the next season at Argeş Piteşti, where he was brought by another Italian manager Giuseppe Giannini.
On 6 June 2009, the club succeeds to promote to the Liga I and obtains the greatest performance ever made by a club from Curtea de Argeş, becoming the third team from Argeş County that will play in the Liga I after FC Argeş Piteşti and Dacia Mioveni.