It was Guardiola the one who said it to him

Puyol Revives the Classical in which "it dried" to Luis Figo

Published:2/12/2016 - 11:08h

Updated:2/12/2016 - 17:15h

The ex footballer of the FC Barcelona Carles Puyol remembered how was his first Classical Barça-Madrid. Being very young, Pep Guardiola said him that it went thinking in "the Portuguese" Luis Figo. The morning of the party Serra Ferrer confirmed him his titularity

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The one who was central of the FC Barcelona, and myth blaugrana, Carles Puyol explained in a recent interview how lived his first Classical in front of the Real Madrid. The one of the Pobla of Segur debuted in the Camp Nou in a party of these magnitudes having to defend to Luis Figo. "Puyi" Was the attendant to avoid that one of the players more desequilibrantes of the world did his football... And it achieved it. But it could not it have done so well, it confessed, without Pep Guardiola.

It was the one of Santpedor, by that moment turned into bastion of the centre of the Barcelona field, the one who communicated him a week before the crash that would be headline leaving it fall. The same day of the crash his trainer Serra Ferrer confirmed it to him.

"Memory that to principle of week all the newspapers said that it would be Reiziger the one who would mark to Figo but Guardiola said me that it began to think in the Portuguese… Was in the morning before the party when Serra said it to me", explained.

For "Puyi" Figo was "the best of the Madrid"

It was his first derbi in front of the rival maximum and Puyol was to the height and gave beginning to a legendary career in the Catalan picture. "The environment was incredible. It was a difficult situation for Figo and even so I think that was the best of the Madrid. That day spoke with him of that. Later, no", desveló.

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