Gabriel Batistuta

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Gabriel Batistuta
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Gabriel Batistuta 2006
Personnel
Surname Gabriel Omar Batistuta
birthday 1st February 1969
place of birth Reconquista ,  Argentina
size 185 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1987-1988 Newell's Old Boys
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1989 Newell's Old Boys 16 00(4)
1989-1990 CA River Plate 19 00(3)
1990-1991 Boca Juniors 30 0(13)
1991-2000 AC Florence 269 ​​(168)
2000-2003 AS Roma 63 0(30)
2003 →  Inter Milan  (loan) 12 00(2)
2003-2005 al-Arabi 21 0(25)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-2002 Argentina 78 0(56)
1 Only league games are given.

Gabriel Omar Batistuta , nickname Batigol (born February 1, 1969 in Reconquista ), is a former Argentine soccer player .

Batistuta is the most successful goalscorer of Fiorentina to date with 168 goals and is in ninth place in the all-time list of top scorers in the top Italian division with 184 goals in 318 games. In March 2004 he was included by Pelé in the FIFA 100 , the list of the 125 best footballers still alive.

Career

In the club

Batistuta, who like many Argentine soccer players has Italian ancestors, spent most of his career in Italy and has legendary status there to this day. In 1996, viola fans erected a life-size bronze statue in his honor in Florence , where he played with Stefan Effenberg , among others . In March 2005 he ended his career after a series of injuries.

Batistuta began his professional career in 1988 with the Argentine club Newell's Old Boys , for whom he had already played as a teenager. In his first season, the attacker failed to get through. For this reason he was soon awarded to the lower class club Deportivo Italiano from Buenos Aires , to whose top scorer he rose. In the summer of 1989 Batistuta moved to one of the most famous clubs in Argentina, CA River Plate . There, too, he developed into a top performer, but was eliminated from the squad after problems with coach Daniel Passarella . After only one year with Los Millonarios , he moved to big competitor Boca Juniors . Due to a long time without match practice, he could no longer build on the performances from the previous season. Only when Óscar Tabárez was the new Bocas coach, he increasingly relied on Batistuta and led him back to his old strength, so that he scored twenty goals in 29 competitive games in his second season.

AC Florence

In the summer of 1991, the striker moved to Europe and signed with Fiorentina . In his debut season in Serie A , the offensive player scored thirteen league goals immediately. In the following season he increased his number by three goals. Despite these hits Batistuta could not avert relegation to Serie B. The Fiorentina, where u. a. Stefan Effenberg was in the squad, managed to get promoted again the following year. During the 1994/95 season, the Argentine broke Ezio Pascutti's thirty-year-old record by overcoming the opposing goalkeeper once in the first eleven matches. At the end of the season there were 26 goals on the striker's balance sheet, which secured him the title of top scorer. For the 1995/96 season, the team won the Coppa Italia and the Super Coppa. However, since his arrival in Florence it has not been enough to win the championship. Finally, the player, who has now achieved superstar status in Italy, threatened to leave the ACF . For this reason, the board signed Giovanni Trapattoni as the new coach at the beginning of the league in 1998/99 , who had previously coached top teams such as FC Bayern Munich , Juventus Turin , AC Milan and Inter Milan . But with Trap it was only enough for third place. Also in the following season the desired success, the championship, failed and so Batistuta decided in the summer of 2000 to move to the capital club AS Roma .

Champion with AS Roma

Despite some injuries, the striker scored 20 goals at his new club. He was the best attacker of his team and fourth-best in the league, which he was able to help his team to the first league title since 1983 and third league success in the history of the Roma club. Shortly afterwards, he also secured the Italian Supercup for the second time in his career . Because of weakness in the 2002/03 season, the Rome officials decided to lend the attacker to league rivals Inter Milan for the second half of the season. But even at the Internazionale , he failed to improve performance. In the summer of 2003, at the end of his career, he signed with al-Arabi from Qatar. There he scored 25 goals in 21 games, setting a league record and being awarded the “Golden Shoe” at the end of the season. In 2008, Batistuta's goal record was improved to 27 goals by Brazilian Clemerson de Araújo Soares .

In the national team

Batistuta made his debut in the Argentine national team in 1991. In 1991 and 1993 he won the Copa America with Argentina . He played the World Cup tournaments in the USA in 1994 and in France in 1998, and in 2002 he drove with Argentina as the favorite for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. In the preliminary round he scored the 1-0 winner against Nigeria. After a defeat against England and a draw against Sweden, he was eliminated with his national team in the preliminary round and then announced his resignation.

Batistuta is the only player who has scored three goals in one game in two World Cup finals (1994 in the USA in a 4-0 win against Greece and in 1998 in France in a 5-0 win against Jamaica). He scored 56 goals in 78 international matches, making him the most successful goalscorer in the history of the Argentine team until Lionel Messi caught that mark on September 1, 2016 - but needed 114 games - and surpassed it on November 15, 2016. For this reason, his nickname is also "Batigol".

Achievements / titles

As a national player

With his clubs

Awards

Other awards

  • In October 2016, Batistuta became an honorary citizen of the city of Florence .

Season statistics

society league season league Nat. Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
Newell's Old Boys Primera División 1988/89 16 4th - - 5 3 - - 21st 7th
total 16 4th - - 5 3 - - 21st 7th
CA River Plate Primera División 1989/90 19th 3 - - - - - - 19th 3
total 19th 3 - - - - - - 19th 3
Boca Juniors Primera División 1990/91 30th 13 - - 10 6th - - 40 19th
total 30th 13 - - 10 6th - - 40 19th
AC Florence Series A 1991/92 27 13 3 1 - - - - 30th 14th
1992/93 32 16 3 3 - - - - 35 19th
1993/94 26th 16 4th 3 2 2 - - 32 21st
1994/95 32 26th 5 2 - - - - 37 28
1995/96 31 19th 8th 8th - - - - 39 27
1996/97 32 13 3 2 7th 4th - - 42 19th
1997/98 31 21st 5 3 - - - - 36 24
1998/99 28 21st 6th 4th 3 1 - - 37 26th
1999/00 30th 23 3 0 11 6th - - 44 29
total 269 168 40 26th 23 13 - - 332 207
AS Roma Series A 2000/01 28 20th - - 3 1 - - 31 21st
2001/02 23 6th 1 0 8th 0 - - 32 6th
2002/03 12 4th 2 1 6th 1 - - 20th 6th
total 63 30th 3 1 17th 2 - - 83 33
Inter Milan Series A 2002/03 12 2 - - - - - - 12 2
total 12 2 - - - - - - 12 2
al-Arabi Qatar Stars League 2003/04 18th 25th - - - - - - 18th 25th
2004/05 3 0 - - - - - - 3 0
total 21st 25th - - - - - - 21st 25th
Career total 430 245 43 27 55 24 - - 528 296

polo

Inspired by his friendship with the Argentine polo player Adolfo Cambiaso , Batistuta started playing polo in recent years and has now reached a handicap of 0. In 2009 he took part in the "Argentina Polo Tour". He played together with Cambiaso in the "Loro Piana" team and won the "Copa Stella Artois" with them. Batistuta has its own polo team called “La Gloria”, with whom he came third in the 2016 Copa Ciudad de Reconquista.

Web links

Commons : Gabriel Batistuta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ imprevedibile Batigol - Debutterà nel polo
  2. ↑ Pele chooses 125 best living players to mark Fifa anniversary from March 5, 2004 on independent.co.uk
  3. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/international/italien/batistuta-wird-ehrenbuerger-von-florenz-aid-1.6274413
  4. ↑ Report on Polo Today Network ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ La Nacion of March 9, 2009: "¡Bati campeón!"
  6. ↑ Batistuta plays polo in Reconquista
  7. ↑ Player portrait , World Polo Tour
personal data
SURNAME Batistuta, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Batistuta, Gabriel Omar (full name); Batigol (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Reconquista , Argentina