Lucas Simón
Lucas Alberto Simón García is an Argentine naturalized Chilean former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Early career
Born in Mar del Plata, Simón started his career at hometown club Cadetes de San Martín. In 2004, he was signed by Primera B Nacional club Nueva Chicago, with whom Simón won the 2006 Clausura Tournament, but lost the championship playoffs against Godoy Cruz. However, despite failing to win the final, he helped his team to earn promotion to the Argentine Primera División, after a 6–3 win against Belgrano, in which Simón scored twice.Piacenza
In July 2006, he was signed by Italian Serie B club Piacenza. He scored 5 league goals in the first season, ranked 5th of the team, as the team third strikers, behind Daniele Cacia and Daniele Degano. In the next season, after Cacia was sold, he became the only central forward in the starting XI, but soon the coach preferred Houssine Kharja as the emergency striker, Julien Rantier and Giuseppe Gemiti in supporting role. In mid-October, he returned to starting XI until Cacia recovered. In January 2008, Cacia returned to Fiorentina and Kharja was sold, but the club signed Zlatko Dedič and Alessandro Tulli, made Simón remained as the third striker.In 2008–09 Serie B season, the club signed Davide Moscardelli as new central forward, and on 1 September 2008, he left the club along with 2 strikers after the club loaned striker Emanuele Ferraro from Salernitana. Which Simón was loaned to Pescara, and he scored 10 goals in Italian third highest division.
On 1 July 2009, Simón returned to Emilia. He had to compete with Tulli, Tomás Guzmán, Antonio Piccolo and Mattia Graffiedi for the remain place of supporting striker role in 4–3–3 formation, or as a backup central forward in 4–4–2 formation if Moscardelli was not available. The coach more frequently used Simone Guerra as supporting striker and Simón only made 8 start, 7 of them before the arrival of striker Edgar Çani in January.
In June 2010, he was loaned back to Argentina for Tigre.