Giovanni Pablo Simeone was born on 5 July 1995, while his father, Diego Pablo Simeone, was playing for Atlético Madrid. A centre-forward, he came through the youth ranks at River Plate, which he joined in 2008. Since 2016 he has spent his entire career in Italy’s Serie A, playing for Genoa, Fiorentina, Cagliari, Hellas Verona and Napoli, and he has played for Torino since 2025. He won two Italian league titles with Napoli and was the top scorer at the 2015 South American U-20 Championship with Argentina. He is the brother of fellow footballer Giuliano Simeone.
Youth career and debut at River Plate
He spent five years in River’s academy before reaching the first team. He made his Argentine top-flight debut on 4 August 2013, on the opening matchday of the Torneo Inicial, playing the full ninety minutes of a 1-0 defeat to Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. His first professional goal came on 8 September that year in a 3-0 win over Tigre at the Monumental. He was part of the squad that won the 2014 Torneo Final and that year’s Copa Campeonato, as well as the squad that lifted the 2014 Copa Sudamericana. He finished his River spell with 33 appearances and 4 goals in all competitions.
Banfield and the move to Italy
In July 2015 River loaned him to Banfield with an option to buy. He marked his debut on 12 July with the only goal in a 1-0 win over Quilmes and left the club with 12 goals in 34 league games. On 18 August 2016 he joined Genoa for a fee reported at around three million euros. He made his Serie A debut on 21 August in a 3-1 win over Cagliari, and on 27 November he scored twice in a 3-1 victory over Juventus. He ended his first Italian season with 12 goals in 35 league matches.
Fiorentina and Cagliari
Fiorentina signed him on 16 August 2017. In the 2017-18 Serie A he scored 14 goals, including a hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Napoli on 29 April 2018. The following campaign he added six league goals and two more in a 7-1 Coppa Italia rout of Roma; in Florence he totalled 20 goals in 74 league games. On 30 August 2019 he moved to Cagliari on loan with an obligation to buy. He debuted on 1 September against Inter and opened his account on 15 September in a 3-1 win over Parma. He finished the 2019-20 Serie A with 12 goals and 2020-21 with 6.
Hellas Verona and Napoli
On 26 August 2021 he joined Hellas Verona on loan, and the club made the deal permanent on 17 June 2022. On 24 October 2021 he scored all four goals in a 4-1 win over Lazio, and six days later he struck twice in a 2-1 defeat of Juventus; he was named Serie A Player of the Month for October. He finished the season with 17 goals in 35 league games. On 18 August 2022 he arrived at Napoli on loan with an obligation to buy. On his Champions League debut, on 7 September, he scored in a 4-1 win over Liverpool, and on 26 October he netted twice against Rangers. On 29 January 2023 he scored the winner in a 2-1 victory over Roma. Napoli were crowned 2022-23 Serie A champions on 4 May 2023, the first league title of his career. The transfer became permanent on 15 June 2023, and in 2025 he collected a second scudetto. For Napoli he made 103 appearances and scored 14 goals, five of them in 13 Champions League matches.
Argentina national team
He made his Argentina U-20 debut on 14 January 2015, scoring twice in a 5-2 win over Ecuador at the South American Championship in Uruguay. Argentina won the tournament after beating the hosts 2-1 in the final on 7 February, and he finished as top scorer with nine goals. That year he was also selected for the U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. He made his senior debut in September 2018, starting a friendly against Guatemala in Los Angeles and scoring in a 3-0 win. He won five caps that year and was recalled by Lionel Scaloni in 2023.
Torino
On 7 August 2025 he joined Torino on a season-long loan with a conditional obligation to buy. His first goal for the club came on 14 September 2025 in a 1-0 win over Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. The obligation to buy was triggered in February 2026 after he appeared against Fiorentina, for a fee of 5.5 million euros plus one million in add-ons. He finished the 2025-26 Serie A as Torino’s top scorer, with 11 goals in 32 matches.
Torino