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This is how Luis Figo from Barcelona speaks after the latest events

Published:17/10/2019 - 20:36h

Updated:17/10/2019 - 20:36h

Luis Figo was not the person who left Barcelona's best memory for his march to Real Madrid. In El Hormiguero, he talked about the latest events in Barcelona

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Luis Figo starred one of the big twists of the history of the football at the beginning of the past decade when, being the captain of the FC Barcelona and his maximum star, finish signing by the Real Madrid. This Wednesday, the Portuguese visited The Anteater beside his wife, the Swedish model Helen Svedin, so that both went interviewed by Pablo Motorbikes.

The presenter asked him to the luso about the complicated situation that lives Barcelona after the sentence by 'The Procés'​ and Figo answered with some apego, in spite of the current conflict and to all what lived when it left to Madrid. "Barcelona, in this period, was a different city of what are seeing now, but does not leave to be a fantastic city to live", ensured.

Helen Svedin, by his part, confessed to have enamoured of the City Condal the first time that saw it. "Memory landing the aeroplane landing in the airport of Barcelona and thought that it would not leave me never, with his beach and the palmeras", admitted the Swedish model.

The turbulent course of Figo to the Real Madrid

The signing of Luis Figo by the Real Madrid in the year 2000 is considered one of the greater betrayals futbolísticas of the history. The Portuguese player, that carried five seasons in the Barcelona team, signed a draft agreement with Florentino Pérez in which if the current white president won them, Figo had to leave to the white group.

Unexpectedly, Florentino won him the elections to Lorenzo Sanz, that came to conquer the Glass of Europe, by what Figo had to go to the Real Madrid or indemnify to Florentino with 35 million euros. The Portuguese, in spite of that arrepintió of his decision, saw forced to leave to the eternal rival being repudiated for life by the fans of the FC Barcelona.

In spite of some first turbulent months in Santiago Bernabéu, even even asking to Florentino leave traspasado, Figo achieved to stabilise his situation and win apego in the white club. In the actuality, the Portuguese follows leaving clear that saves much more affection to the entity merengue that to the culé, in a reciprocal feeling with the own bloated of the Barça.

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