Gabriel Batistuta

HONOURS - Argentinian Championship 1990-91, Italian Championship 2000-01. Top Scorer in the Argentinian League 1990-91, and the Italian Championship 1995. Winner of the Italian Cup 1996, Italian Super Cup Winner 1996 and 2001. Top foreign Serie A striker in history. All time top scorer for Fiorentina (206 goals). Winner of the Copa America 1991 and 1993 with Argentina. Top Scorer in the 1991 and 1995 Copa America tournaments. Top all time Argentinian National team scorer. South American footballer of the year in 1991. A striker with a phenomenal scoring record, Gabriel is approaching the twilight of his career but still finds the net regularly at the highest level. He made his senior debut for Newell's Old Boys as a teenager before moving on to River Plate and then Boca Juniors where his goals helped win the domestic title in 1990. He went on to win his first cap against Brazil in June 1991 and soon afterwards joined Fiorentina where he spent nine seasons, scoring over 150 goals at a rate of more than one every two games. However, the team managed just one major domestic honour, the Italian Cup in 1996, and in the 2000 close season he moved on to AS Roma. Here he achieved immediate success, netting 20 goals as they won the Serie A championship in his first season.

To date Gabriel has won over 70 caps and is his country's all-time record goalscorer. He was a member of the teams that won the Copa America in both 1991 and 1993 as well as appearing in both the 1994 and 1998 World Cup final tournaments.

He maintained his World Cup finals ratio of a goal per game with the winner in Argentina's opener against Nigeria. With their early elimination though, Gabriel's retirement left him with a World Cup finals total of 10 goals in 12 games leaving him adrift of Gerd Muller's all-time finals record of 14 goals.

Appearances in World Cup Qualification: 5

Goals in World Cup Qualification: 5.