Giovanni Gargiulo
Giovanni Maria Gargiulo is an Italian professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for the Italian Volleyball League club, Lube and the Italy national team.
Career
Club
Gargiulo began his career in the 2015–16 season with Materdomini in Serie A2, a club he remained with for five seasons. In the 2020–21 season, he made his Superleague debut thanks to a signing from Callipo; he also remained in the same division for the 2022–23 season when he signed for Prisma Taranto: at the end of the 2023–24 season, having concluded his commitments with the Apulian club, he finished the season with Tourcoing, in the French Ligue A.In the 2024–25 season, Gargiulo joined Lube, also in the Superleague, with whom he won the Coppa Italia.
National team
In 2017, Gargiulo was called up to the Italian under-19 national team with which he won silver at the European Championship. This was followed in 2018 by call-ups to the under-20 national team and in 2019 to the [Italy men's national under-21 volleyball team||under-21 national team], with the latter winning silver at the World Championship.In 2025, Gargiulo received his first call-up to the senior national team, with which, in the same year, he won the silver medal at the Nations League.