At number 4 in our football legends list is Argentine Striker Gabriel Batistuta.
He is the 10th highest ever goalscorer in Serie A scoring a massive 184 goals and spent the majority of his career at Fiorentina.
Basketball was actually Gabriel's favourite sport as a child which he was very good at because of his height advantage, it was only after watching Argentina in the 1978 World Cup that he became interested in football and lucky for Argentina that he did as he is now their top all time goal scorer with 56 goals.
He soon signed on as a youth player to Newells Old Boys where he spent a season before spending a year at River Plate.
Gabriel was then signed up for Boca Juniors where he spent 2 seasons scoring 18 goals and he was eventually spotted by Fiorentina in 1991.
He spent 9 long seasons at Fiorentina where he won a Serie B title and also the Coppa Italia in 1995.
In the year 2000 he moved to Roma where he spent 3 seasons and won his only Serie A title.
Late on in his career he moved to Inter where he played just 12 games and then eventually finished his playing time in Qatar for Al Arabi where he broke the club goalscoring record of 24 goals.
Batistuta now lives back in Argentina where he runs his own construction company but will always be remembered as one of the greatest strikers of all times.
Here is a video of some of his best goals, Enjoy.
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