Purple brings you luck

As in all legends, the hero’s origins are humble: born in Argentina in 1969, Batistuta is son of a butcher and a school worker. During his teenage he loves to play basketball, but the gift of a poster picturing Maradona persuades him in approaching that career as a striker that made him a myth.

In 1991 he starts playing for ACF Fiorentina and his professional rise as well: Batigol or Lion King – these are his nicknames – is the man of records. But a legend can be real only by dealing with darkness. After his achievements in AS Roma, FC Inter and Al-Arabi, Batigol retires on May 13, 2005, not without issues. ‘My ankles are naturally fragile, I’ve been tortured by sprains. I have been using painkillers for a long time. As I retired, I found my ankles destroyed, without cartilage’. He said in an interview that he asked a doctor to amputate his legs: luckily, instead of indulging, he decided to make him operate in Basel.

In September 2019 Batistuta got a prothesis was, starting a physical rehabilitation right after that. The career of the Lion King is plenty of tears: of joy, anger, frustration. Some of them wet a purple t-shirt, there’s a FILA logo on it.