Jonathan Calleri Augusto was born on 23 September 1993 in Buenos Aires and came through the youth system at All Boys, the club from the Floresta neighbourhood. He is an Argentine centre-forward who also holds Italian citizenship. His career has taken him through Argentina, Brazil, England and Spain, and since 2021 it has been tied mainly to São Paulo, with whom he won the Copa do Brasil in 2023.
Youth career and debut at All Boys
Calleri came all the way through the All Boys academy and made his first-team debut in 2013, first in the Copa Argentina and shortly afterwards in the Primera División. In his only full professional season in Floresta he played around thirty matches and scored six goals for a side fighting near the bottom of the table. That was enough for Boca Juniors, who already owned part of his rights, to take up their purchase option in mid-2014.
Boca Juniors and the 2015 double
He joined Boca in July 2014 and in eighteen months made 61 appearances with 23 goals in all competitions. His best spell at La Bombonera came in 2015: he scored 10 goals in 26 league games and was the team's top scorer in the championship Boca won that November. The club completed the season with the 2014-15 Copa Argentina, so Calleri left with a double. The Alumni Awards named him Boca's player of the year for 2015.
São Paulo and the 2016 Libertadores
In January 2016 his registration moved to Deportivo Maldonado, a Uruguayan club he never played for, and from there he was loaned to São Paulo. It was a short and productive spell: 16 goals in 31 games. In the Copa Libertadores he scored four in a 6-0 win over Trujillanos and finished as the tournament's top scorer with 9 goals, in the campaign that took São Paulo to the semi-finals.
England and the years in Spain
In August 2016 he joined West Ham United on loan, making his Premier League debut against Bournemouth and scoring just once in 19 appearances. From 2017 he went on four straight loans in LaLiga. At Las Palmas, in 2017-18, he scored 12 goals in 41 games, including goals against Atlético Madrid and Barcelona. He then played for Deportivo Alavés in 2018-19, with 9 goals in 36 matches, and for Espanyol in 2019-20. For the Barcelona club he hit a Europa League hat-trick against Wolverhampton Wanderers on 27 February 2020; Espanyol won 3-2 but went out on aggregate. His final stop in Spain was Osasuna in 2020-21, with six goals in 27 matches.
Return to São Paulo
On 30 August 2021 he went back to São Paulo, first on loan and from 2022 on a permanent deal. The 2022 season was the most prolific of his career, with 27 goals in 67 games, including a hat-trick against Athletico Paranaense in the Brasileirão. His first title in Brazil came in 2023: in the first leg of the Copa do Brasil final, on 17 September at the Maracanã, he scored the only goal against Flamengo, and a 1-1 draw in the return leg at the Morumbi gave the club its first ever win in the competition. On 4 February 2024 he added the Supercopa do Brasil: after a goalless draw with Palmeiras at the Mineirão, he converted one of the kicks in a shootout São Paulo won 4-2.
International career and playing style
For Argentina he has played only at youth level. Julio Olarticoechea selected him for the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he played three matches and scored the winner in a 2-1 victory over Algeria. He is a penalty-box number nine, strong in the air and in physical duels with centre-backs, who works hard in the press and tends to drift between defenders to find a shooting chance. At both Boca and São Paulo he was also one of the team's penalty takers.
Honours
With Boca Juniors he won the 2015 Argentine Primera División and the 2014-15 Copa Argentina. With São Paulo he lifted the 2023 Copa do Brasil and the 2024 Supercopa do Brasil. Individually he was top scorer of the 2016 Copa Libertadores with 9 goals, and in September 2024 he reached 200 appearances for São Paulo.
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