Italy had woken up today with the news and no local media left the topic untouched. However, the return of the “Lion King” will not be possible.
The former Argentine striker Gabriel Omar Batistuta denied the versions that indicated that he could be the next mayor of the Italian city of Florence by center-right coalition of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Italy had woken up today with the news and no local media left the topic untouched. However, the return of the “Lion King” – as he was called in the cradle of Italian art in the ’90s during his glorious time as a Fiorentina player because of his long, misaligned hair – will not be possible.
“I want to deny the news that involves me as a possible candidate in Firenze. I do not participate in politics in Italy or Argentina,” the former goalscorer wrote on X, (the former Twitter). And he added in two other messages: “My only intention is to live in a better world where people can obtain and enjoy what they deserve for the efforts and sacrifices in their professional or work tasks. Always available to collaborate from a place where it can be useful But in no way be in a position of power that should be occupied only by those who have adequately prepared themselves with sufficient merits to deserve it.”
Batistuta’s life in Italy
The former player, who He played for “Fiorentina” for nine seasons, from 1991 to 2000, Inter Milan and Roma, he was one of the top figures in the most powerful Serie A in the history of “calcio”, scoring up to 243 goals between the three Italian teams he played.
The version that ran in the Italian press indicated that the former player of Boca Juniors He had received the proposal for his candidacy from the center-right coalition of the capital of the Tuscany region, which would be considering the historic striker for the most important position in the municipality of northern Italy.
Although many years have passed since the Argentine striker was applauded in the streets of the city of the Renaissance and by the most important artists of Italian culture such as Miguel Ángel Buonarroti, Rafael, Donatello and Brunelleschi, his name resonated again, but now in the field of politics.
Source: Ambito
