Luis Figo will make a shock – and probably provocative – return to Barcelona tonight after being named UEFA ambassador for his or her Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain.
Figo stays a determine of hate among the many Barca fanbase for his choice to swap Camp Nou for Actual Madrid in 2000 – a seismic switch that rocked the world of soccer, even resulting in a Netflix documentary.
The Portuguese worldwide confronted a extreme backlash from Blaugrana followers, who famously threw a pig’s head at Figo when he returned for a second time in 2002.
The scenario nonetheless simmers at this time with Figo turning into embroiled in an altercation with a Barca fan previous to the ladies’s workforce’s Champions League remaining in opposition to Arsenal in Could.
The fan known as Figo a ‘traitor’ with the 52-year-old making an obscene in response gesture earlier than strolling away.
Regardless of the acrimony, Figo might be current tonight at Montjuic for the conflict with the European champions. It is going to be his first go to to Barcelona for a recreation since 2009.
Intriguingly, Joan Gaspart – the Barca president on the time of Figo’s transfer – will even be within the administrators’ field tonight. Gaspart has stated beforehand “the one enemy I’ve is Luis Figo”.
