Argentinian Greats

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This is the Argentinian greats thread. please post biographies, videos, pictures, stories and discussions about the ARGENTINIAN greatest players in history!

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The Best of Diego Maradona:

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Gabriel Omar Batistuta (born February 1, 1969), nicknamed Batigol, is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at ACF Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the eighth top scorer of all time in the Italian Serie A league, with 184 goals in 318 matches between 1991 and 2003. On the international level, he is the all-time highest scorer for Argentina's national team, with 56 goals in 78 national team matches, and he represented his country at three FIFA World Cups. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the "125 Greatest Living Footballers".

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. A hero in Florence, the Fiorentina fans erected a life-size bronze statue of him in 1996, in recognition of his performances for Fiorentina. He never won the Italian league with Fiorentina, but when he moved to AS Roma in 2000, he finally won the Serie A championship to crown his career in Italy. He played his last professional season in Qatar with Al-Arabi before he retired in 2005.

Currently he works as a commentator having worked for Televisa Deportes during the 2006 FIFA World Cup and for the show "La jugada".

Batigol started his career in Newell's Old Boys, then moved to River Plate and half season after that he moved to Boca Juniors where he played for one year and then moved to the seria A.

Biography: Current Biography International Yearbook 2002 — Sample Profile

a beautiful video of Batistutas amazing goals:

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Honours

* First Division (Serie A) Italian Championship (with A.S. Roma) 2000-2001.
* Italian Supercup (with ACF Fiorentina) 1996, (with A.S. Roma) 2001
* Argentine Football Writers' Footballer of the Year 1998.
* Italian Cup (with ACF Fiorentina) 1995-1996.
* Second Division (Serie B) Italian Championship (with Fiorentina) 1993-1994.
* First Division Top Scorer, 26 goals (with Fiorentina) 1994-1995
* Copa América (with Argentina) 1991, 1993
* Copa América Top Scorer, 6 goals (with Argentina) 1991
* Top Scorer of The Qatari League with a record breaking 24 goals.
* Top Scorer in all Arab leagues, awarded with a Golden Boot.
* Gabriel Batistuta also set a new Serie A record by scoring in 11 consecutive Serie A games
* Copa das Confederações (with Argentina) 1992, 1993

*** Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year 1999
*** Serie A top scorer 1994-95
*** Qatar League Top Scorer 2004