Source: Sportweek (Dutch magazine)
Posing is something 29-year-old Batistuta does very well, he worked as a
model for Armani before. If we should believe the stories on the net,
that life full of glamour and attention stands opposite to the life he
deep in his heart wants to live. In Reconquista, north of Buenos Aires,
he has a large cattle ranch. His father runs it, but as soon as he quits
soccer he will return there. Because, as he says himself, "Outside the
field I'm actually pretty boring, I just love spending time at home with
my family".
Other personal news: on the day of the match he has two
eggs, bacon, toast and tea, he always wears his lucky t-shirt under his
club uniform and his personal hero is fellow Argentinian Mario Kempes.
With Fiorentina he plays divine, for the Argentine national team he is
also the top scorer, but he himself did not find out until he was
nineteen that he could play a nice bit of soccer. And he had to be
convinced of that by his trainer at the time.
The secret of his success:
Batistuta used to be a little boy that thus had to work twice as hard to
put up with the bigger, older boys. In the meantime he has gotten past
them, already
Date: January 5th, '99
Transcribed & translated by: Jojan
The true female lovers have already known this for years: Gabriel Omar
Batistuta is the most handsome soccer player at this moment. Forget
about Dani, the Argentine top scorer of the Italian competition is a
real man and boundlessly popular. On the net almost a true 'Batimania'
is going on. Batigol even has a site with his own name in the address
http://www.batistuta.com, a privilege usually only the truely famous
have. The best pictures can be found at http://gabrielbatistuta.net, including family snap shots with his wife
(Irina) and sons (Lucas, Thiago, Joaquin). Especially the less recent
pictures are funny to watch, since the young Batistuta is just a shade
of the present. Watch the hippie picture with is wife!