“Signature of the Century”: the true story of Luis Figo’s transfer from Barcelona to Real Madrid will have a documentary on Netflix

A story that has marked Luigi Figo like a Judas in Barcelona and a star in Real Madrid. After the historic exchange between the Catalan team and its classic Madrid-based rival for the Portuguese, Netflix has announced that it will premiere a documentary on its platform called “the Figo case: the signature of the century“, which promises to tell the true story of this iconic case.

“Luís Figo, Florentino Pérez, José Veiga, Joan Gaspart, Paulo Futre … 22 years later, the protagonists speak for the first time about the most controversial transfer in football history“He quoted the post posted by the official Netflix account announcing the premiere.

Figo’s word will refer directly to the case that for many was one of the most controversial purchases in the European country. As confirmed on the social networks by the platform for audiovisual projects, the documentary will be available to users from Thursday 25th August.

Figo’s signature to the group Meringue It was marked by a fire in history. For the fans of Barcelona, ​​the Portuguese He went from being a hero to being the most hated figure in five years. It was that she was a star in the blaugrana Y was forging, through great performances and getting several titles, a relationship that seemed indissoluble.

The Portuguese arrived in the Catalan team in 1995 with great expectation and fulfilled all that he had promised. In five seasons he has been on the culé team (until 2000) managed to position itself as second captain, as at that time he was wearing Josep Guardiola’s ribbon, which years later brought the club to the golden age as a manager. Although he has played 248 games and scored 48 goals, history It didn’t have the ending everyone imagined.

The July 24, 2000Cool became Down from for Barcelona fans. is that Real Madrid made the arrival official from the Portuguese a White House after a great management of the president Florentino Perezwho currently continues to hold this position.

The Spanish and international media have focused on that media transfer. A situation was occurring that hadn’t been in the plan since Figo was sold directly to the classic rival from culé.

Beyond that betrayal in which many have defined the player peseterothe transfer was rated as the most expensive in history up to that point in the Merengue team, as they were disbursed 61 million euros.

In the same year the player returned to step on the legendary stadium Camp Nou but with the difference that this time he entered with the Real Madrid shirt to play with the team he had “betrayed”. Clearly and as the fans had warned, the weather was not the best and the player was severely harassed during the ninety minutes.

With the player’s word, also that of Giovanna Gaspart who was president of Barcelona and the testimony of the boss Meringue Florentino Perezthat closed the player’s transfer, the documentary will tell the details of that historic transfer.