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Join Date: 11 1999
Location: Norn Iron
Fave Players: Sheva
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His first season was a success. After that he resembled a bad joke, suffering endlessly from injury and eventually to Inter, where he was a complete disaster. In his prime, incredible, but at the end an embarassment.
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Join Date: 01 2001
Location: Sweden
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Well, careers can end abruptly. At least he got his Scudetto.
Too bad he had become lazier and lazier. I guess it's will and motivation. A pity because he still had it in him to play to score those extra to reach 200. Instead of taking (fighting for) those few more steps into a lethal position, he'd just let loose as soon as a defender was half an armslength from himself. He basically neutered most of his own lethality that way, turning himself into a pale shadow of what he was.
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Join Date: 11 1999
Location: Norn Iron
Fave Players: Sheva
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To be fair to Batistuta, he was suffering from a chronic injury.
I never felt he was the same player after he injured himself against Milan in 1999. Fiorentina rushed him back, and he didn't get a proper recovery. Before that injury he was in the form of his life. Afterwards he was never as dangerous.
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