Gabriel Batistuta Match Worn Roma Shirt 2000 – 2001 Season

Incredibly rare and amazing Gabriel Batistuta match worn Roma shirt

Shirt worn by Batistuta for Roma during the 2000 - 2001 Serie A season

Shirt is the correct size for Batistuta and has all the correct labels and tags inside which is correct for this time period and different to that of the retail version shirt and issued directly to the club - player for match use

Shirt remains in very good condition with small signs of wear and use still visible throughout

Correct player , club and Serie A match identification marks throughout

Player : Gabriel Batistuta

Team : Roma

Position : Forward

Season : 2000 - 2001

Competition : Serie A

Authentication : Confirmed

Widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and Fiorentina's greatest ever player Batistuta was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004.

After beginning his career in Argentina in 1988 with Newell's Old Boys, followed by River Plate and Boca Juniors where he won titles, Batistuta played most of his club football with Serie A club Fiorentina in Italy; he is their all-time top scorer in Serie A with 151 goals. When Fiorentina was relegated to Serie B in 1993, Batistuta stayed with the club and helped them return to the top-flight league a year later. He became an icon in Florence; the Fiorentina fans erected a life-size bronze statue of him in 1996, in recognition of his performances for the club. Despite winning the Coppa Italia and the Supercoppa Italiana with the club in 1996, he never won the Serie A title with Fiorentina, but when he moved to Roma in 2000 for €36 million – the highest fee ever paid for a player over the age of 30 until Cristiano Ronaldo moved from Real Madrid to Juventus in 2018 – he won the 2000–01 Serie A title. After a brief loan spell with Inter Milan in 2003, he played his last two seasons in Qatar with Al-Arabi before he retired in 2005. 

At international level, Batistuta was Argentina's all-time leading goalscorer with 56 goals in 78 official matches,^{[note 2]} a record he held until 21 June 2016, when he was surpassed by Lionel Messi. He participated in three FIFA World Cups, scoring 10 goals, making him Argentina's second top scorer in the competition after Messi, and the joint tenth-highest World Cup goalscorer of all time. Batistuta is the only player in football history to score two hat-tricks in different World Cups. With the Argentina national team he won two consecutive Copa América titles (1991 and 1993), the 1993 CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, and the 1992 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Comes with a certificate of authenticity

Amazing and rare shirt from the former Roma legend and one of the greatest strikers of all time

Museum example item