Giovane Santana do Nascimento was born on 24 November 2003 in Brazil and is known mononymously as Giovane. He arrived in Italian football with Hellas Verona, who signed him from a Brazilian club, and during the 2025-26 season he made 21 Serie A appearances for Verona with three goals and four assists, attracting interest from several Scudetto contenders.
On 24 January 2026 Napoli signed him on a permanent transfer in a deal worth around €20 million, beating Inter Milan to his signature. He joined a squad that went on to win the 2025-26 Supercoppa Italiana, and is being integrated as a younger forward option alongside more experienced names like Lukaku and Neres.
He has progressed through Brazilian youth football and is part of the new generation of South American attackers being scouted by Italian clubs as long-term assets.
A right-footed forward who can play centrally or wide, Giovane combines pace, dribbling and a willingness to run in behind, profiling as exactly the kind of low-cost-to-medium-cost talent Napoli have repeatedly turned into starters under recent management.
Public information about him is still developing, and this profile will be updated as more career and biographical detail becomes confirmed from independent sources.