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Gabriel Batistuta

Gabriel Batistuta
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Batistuta in 2006
Personal information
Full name Gabriel Omar Batistuta
Date of birth (1969-02-01) 1 February 1969 (age 48)
Place of birth Avellaneda, Santa Fe, Argentina
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
1987–1988 Newell's Old Boys
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1989 Newell's Old Boys 16 (4)
1989–1990 River Plate 19 (17)
1990–1991 Boca Juniors 30 (13)
1991–2000 Fiorentina 269 (168)
2000–2003 Roma 63 (30)
2003 Internazionale (loan) 12 (2)
2003–2005 Al-Arabi 21 (25)
Total 430 (245)
National team
1991–2002 Argentina 78 (56)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Gabriel Omar Batistuta (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaˈβɾjel ˈomaɾ βatisˈtuta]; born 1 February 1969), nicknamed Batigol [batiˈɣol] as well as El Ángel Gabriel [el ˌaŋxel ɣaˈβɾjel] (Spanish for Angel Gabriel), is a retired Argentine professional footballer. After beginning his career in Argentina in 1988, where he won titles playing for Newell's Old Boys, River Plate, and subsequently Boca Juniors, the prolific striker played most of his club football with Fiorentina in Italy; he is the club's all-time top scorer and the twelfth-highest scorer of all-time in the Italian Serie A, with 184 goals in 318 matches.

When his club Fiorentina was relegated to Serie B in 1993, Batistuta stayed with the club and helped it return to the top-flight league a year later. He became a popular sporting figure in Florence; the Fiorentina fans erected a life-size bronze statue of him in 1996, in recognition of his performances for the club. Despite winning the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana with the club in 1996, he never won the Italian league with Fiorentina, but when he moved to Roma in 2000, he finally won the Serie A title to crown his career in Italy. After an unsuccessful loan spell with Inter in 2003, he played his last two seasons in Qatar with Al-Arabi before he retired in 2005.


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