Salas earned five caps for the
Chile national team, scoring no goals between 1993 and 1997, and made his debut in 1993 in a
friendly match against Spain in
Alicante. He started his managerial career at
Barnechea in 2009. In 2011, he won the
Tercera División de Chile title and the promotion to
Primera B. In 2012, he was appointed as head coach of the
Chile U20 national team after the resignation of
Fernando Carvallo. As a football coach, Salas started his career as an assistant for
Universidad de Concepción,
Unión Española and
Everton de Viña del Mar. ==Personal life==