Figo makes it clear if leaving Barça for Madrid was a mistake

The name of Luís Figo always will be marked by his traspaso of the FC Barcelona to the Real Madrid in the summer of 2000. Recently, the Portuguese has conceded an interview to Sid Lowe for 'The Guardian' in which it details some of the implications that had his exit of the Barcelona team to add to the naciente project of Florentino Pérez in the start of the era 'Galactic'.

In his words, the luso has indicated that the decision was totally his: "The one who decides if I go or am not I. It had it everything in the Barcelona, happen me to the Real Madrid happened me bill. I was very calm, although at the same time it had a duty to take care to which worked with me. But the decision take it I, am the manager of this, of my actions. The decision to take out them of this responsibility is alone mine. And a year afterwards leave to work with my agent. By some situations that arose. I said: 'Ok, will assume the responsibility again. From now, you have your life, I have mine'".

One of the most elevated costs of his election was to leave to several friendships in the Barcelona team: "Maybe it was well because I thought that they were fellow and were not it. You darse. When it happened, no longer they want to appear with you by how it sees in Barcelona. It is complicated, but understand it. Well, I do not understand, but it does not matter me. At the end I have a very strong concept of the friendship, so it surprises you; you suffer because have a relation with people that think that are only and does not result like this".

His reasons to go to the Madrid

Likewise, it has remembered that his intention was to go by new challenges: "In the Barcelona had it everything, but think: 'it is not that it go me to a club of second'. If it had not been the Madrid, perhaps had not gone me. It was a challenge, a decision based in feeling me valued, in convincing me that it went to be a piece importantísima. It could have been a crapped but was not it, thank heaven…".

The ex international with the Portuguese selection also has given some details on the anteater that lived after his arrival to Santiago Bernabéu: "Now there is more protection. It felt me as if it was giving a press conference every day. This happens bill. We were beginning to do one turns, a new idea, was the rivalry, the pressure, the price. No to all the world likes him, how go to like him to all the world? My only worry was if it happened me something physically, some crazy. But go to play to the football? No! In the football there is not why scare".

Also it has desvelado how were his first days in the white team and his experience beside Vicente of the Forest: "it Is of the best people and trainers that have known. Handle 25 egos is the most difficult of the world. It does not treat to impose. There was egos, always there is egos, but there was big professionals that wanted to compete, win, that respected the space of the another. If all the world says: 'No, I am the best of the world, you run', is a chaos. Had very good environment".

After his cycle in the Spanish capital, his option could have been the Liverpool, but at the end finished in the Italian football: "it had liked Me go. We speak a lot. A week said me: 'No, wait, can not do it now' and afterwards fichan to a player. Afterwards, 'it expects some days more, have to resolve this first' and sign another. I thought: 'Damned was, are playing with me or what?' It appears the Inter, go to Milan, and gather me with Moratti and take the decision. It loved to the Inter, was exactly what needed".