Gabriel Batistuta is Argentina’s greatest ever goalscorer, netting 56 times in 78 international games. He scored 18 goals in 23 UFWC games.

‘Batigol’ was born in 1969 as the son of a slaughterhouse worker. A promising basketball player, Batistuta turned his talents to football after being inspired by the 1978 Argentinean World Cup-winning team.

He scored 10 goals at three World Cup tournaments, but won only the 1993 Copa America with his country. At club level he scored 168 goals for Serie A side Fiorentina, and the city of Florence erected a bronze statue in his honour. He later won Serie A with Roma.

Batigol retired from football in 2005 aged 36. Something of a sex symbol, and once described by The Observer as a ’straightforward lust-monkey’, Batistuta won female hearts as an apparent footballing rarity – a family man dutifully faithful to his wife Irena.