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The lie was actually uttered to Florentino Perez himself. The industrialist had summoned Paolo Futre – a former Portuguese star and close friend of Figo – in early 2000 to tell him that...
Aug 29, 2022 · In the documentary, Figo denies issuing an ultimatum, calling it “a lie.” It’s noteworthy that in the Real Madrid press conference, Figo looked unemotional and distant.
Aug 24, 2022 · Luis Figo ’s sensational move to Real Madrid, rather suitably, begins with a fantastical story and an outright lie. That lie is not that the Portuguese genuinely loved Barcelona, or that he...
- Signing A New Contract
- Florentino Perez Becomes The President of Madrid
- The Betrayal of Figo Becomes A Reality
- The Day After The ‘Shock’
By the year 1999, and after helping the team achieve two consecutive league titles, Figo renewed his contract. With his new contract, Figo improved his salary significantly. Furthermore, his release clause grew as well. The 1999/2000 season ended badly, Van Gaal resigned and president Nunezretired after decades. Figo himself became on of the best p...
Meanwhile, Real Madrid were also in the middle of an election campaign. The team just won their 2nd Champions league trophy in 3 years. However, the team finished 5th in the league, and their fans were unhappy with how things were going in the locker room. Their president, Lorenzo Sanz, felt confident after winning the Champions League trophy, and ...
Florentino made the incredible turnaround and won the election, even though all the newspapers predicted a small victory for Lorenzo Sanz. After the win he kept quiet about Figo. He said he would wait for the end of the Barcelona elections held a few days later. Joan Gaspart won that elections and became the new president of FC Barcelona. In this t...
In the days after the move, in a very unusual move, the official store invited any fan with a Figo shirt, to take his name out of the holy shirt, for free and replace it with another player’s name. They ran it for 3 weeks and said that tens of thousands of fans came there. Figo closed the 3 bars he had and 2 more restaurants in town because no one ...
Sep 15, 2022 · In short, the first move for the Figo transfer was built on a lie. All the protagonists are interviewed in this documentary and each of them, including Figo and Pep Guardiola, his roommate and close friend at Barcelona give their version of events.
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Aug 17, 2022 · By focussing on the transfer rather than Figo’s career, the film informs us about truth, greed, morality and an entire sport in the process – this is the birth of football as an amoral big business over romantic notions of loyalty; not to mention the origin story of Florentino Pérez.
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Jul 13, 2024 · Many behind the scenes deals, lies and trickery on both sides led to Luis Figo wearing the white and over 2 decades later, it’s still remembered as one of the darkest days in Barcelona history ...
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