Gabriel Batistuta returned to football after battling pain in his ankles for years and scoring a great goal with his seal

Gabriele Battista He was an unforgettable striker. In the Argentina national team became the top scorer in history with 56 goals, until when Leone Messi he passed it (he has 86). He was Boca’s idol, despite his past in River. And in Florence he was promoted to an illustrious citizen for his nine seasons in which he scored 207 goals. He passed Roma to become Serie A champion, then Inter Milan and ended his career in Qatar. After 17 years of inactivity, Batigol converted again.

Batistuta ended his successful football career and decided to live in Australia first, before settling in his native Reconquista and becoming a farmer. At that time he turned to golf and even tried polo. But nothing that made him walk or run. He has repeatedly recounted the suffering caused by his ankles.

After more than 20 years as a professional at the highest level, Bati has always wanted to be on the pitch and played undercover. In this way the cartilage covering the bones of the ankles was filed. A rainy day for Batistuta was torture.

But at the age of 53 he decided to accept the invitation to participate in the charity match that was played this Wednesday in Monza. Batistuta wore the number 9 jersey, like in the old days and scored a goal in the “Match of the Coore”an exhibition meeting to raise funds for a foundation.

The party saw characters such as Francesco Totti and Brazilian Dida, although most of the attendees are singers and celebrities. Batigol scored 2-1 with a forehand crossed with his seal and was happy on the pitch.

Later, he recalled his time in Rome with Totti, where he was champion and said: “They treated me like a king”. And when asked about a forecast for Argentina, he said: “The draw was good with Argentina. And the national team hasn’t made it to the World Cup in this form for a long time. And they have Messi too.”.

And of his physique he said: “I managed to overcome injuries two years ago, I can walk normally and today I made an effort to be able to play. I shouldn’t do it, but the spirit of the game is stronger and I couldn’t resist playing against it.”he said to Bati.

Good news after the justice embargo

The federal judge of the Reconquista has ordered an embargo of more than 71 million pesos on former footballer and agricultural producer Gabriel Batistuta, after a lawsuit by the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP). The reason? They accuse him of not having complied with the extraordinary payment to large assets; the extraordinary tax on assets decreed by the Government in the middle of the pandemic.

The resolution was entrusted to the federal judge of the Reconquista, Aldo Alurralde, who ordered the embargo on three properties of the former top scorer of the national team.

As reported this Sunday by the ReconquistaSF portal, the total embargo is $ 71,096,882.09; of which $ 46.059.135.85 correspond to the principal and the remaining $ 25.037.746,24 correspond to punitive interest.

In May, the Judge had rejected a precautionary measure presented by the former footballer of Boca Juniors and Fiorentina in Italy, in order not to pay homage. Therefore, the case went to the Federal Resistance Appeal Chamber.

The High Court of the capital of Chaco, made up of judges María Denogens, Rocío Alcalá and Patricia García, agreed with Alurralde on June 29 when it rejected the appeal filed by Batistuta.

The same judge who decreed the millionaire embargo on Gabriel Omar Batistuta, had already applied a similar measure against the former national team scorer at the end of March: at that moment he seized him for almost 4 million pesos for non-compliance with the payment of taxes to personal property in the last year.

The former footballer originally presented the precautionary measure before the Administrative Court of Litigation number 4 located in the City of Buenos Aires, in which he declared himself incompetent and sent it to Reconquista, of which he is originally from and in whose area he owns about 126 thousand hectares of country land.

Batistuta held that the solidarity contribution promoted by the Government and approved by Congress “violates constitutional rights, principles and guarantees and above all the right to property and the guarantee of non-confiscation”, thus violating “the constitutional guarantee of equality against taxes and public charges.

But in their judgment, the judges Denogens, Alcalá and García held that “the prerequisites for the origin of the precautionary measure envisaged are not configured, which is sufficient to reject the appeal invoked by the plaintiff and confirm the decision of the judge of the precedent example”.

“I didn’t want to pay a tax and they killed me,” said Batistuta in a recent interview, who remarked that “many people made the presentation” but only his case and that of Carlos Tevez came to light.

“I disagree with that tax, which is why I protested. It doesn’t feel right to have to pay for things that previous governments didn’t do,” the former scorer complained.

And added, “It turns out you’ve won stuff, you’ve been lucky in life, and now you’re a bad guy,” said Batistuta, who argued that “anyway, if you like, I’d be a non-generous guy, presumably.”