Football Tales - Episode 52
GABRIEL BATISTUTA
Let's go back to July 1991. Argentina is competing in the Copa America with 9 other South American teams, and is aiming for its 13th title in the competition, with a team featuring many young hopefuls, including midfielder Diego Simeone. But from the first games, it is another player who is going to stand out in particular by scoring 4 goals in 3 games of group, to ensure the first place to the Albiceleste. Video goal. With his hair already very long and the number 9 well anchored on his back, Gabriel Batistuta made a sensation in the competition, he scored again against Brazil in a dantesque match marked by 5 red cards, then a last one against Colombia to finish as top scorer and carry the selection to the final victory. The striker was 22 years old at the time, and he was not just anyone: he had already made a name for himself 3 years earlier, on the side of Old Boys de Rosario in the final of the Copa Libertadores, the debut of an attacking monster, an aesthete of his sport categorized as a charmer, but professionally, a striker.
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