Argentina legend Gabriel Batistuta, has confessed it will hurt when Lionel Messi breaks his goalscoring record.
Batigol is the Albiceleste’s all-time goalscorer with 56 goals, when Messi has already scored 50 times in international colours and is certain to surpass the former Fiorentia striker soon.
“I came to be the highest goalscorer of all time without even realising. One day I woke up and I heard I had scored more than Maradona,” Batistuta told FoxSports.
“How could it not hurt me to see that record be broken?
“It is going to hurt when Messi breaks my record, but we are not talking about being beaten by any terrestrial being”.
Batistuta also revealed that he turned down the chance to coach his former club, Fiorentina, because he has retired from sports.
“I am now retired, I have moved away from the sport since I left because I would like to take on a serious project and it is difficult to find,” he said.
“For that reason I congratulate the coaches here, they work in an atmosphere that I could not.
“I was called by Fiorentina, but I am loved there and I do not want to risk that.”
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