HISTORIES OF THE CLASSICAL: The head of cochinillo that launched him to Figo

Like reason of the Classical that will confront next Saturday three December to FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in the Camp Nou, from FCBN have wanted to remember different moments and anecdotes that have occurred in a derbi of the Spanish football in the Estadi. And one of the first images that has come us in command to remember, like iconic episode of the darkest history of the Barcelona team, went the one of the famous cochinillo.

It ran the year 2000 when Florentino Pérez ensured for the first time the presidency of the Real Madrid after, in a hit of effect, fichar to the captain of the FC Barcelona Luis Figo. Previous payment of a clause of rescission of ten thousand million pesetas, the Portuguese sealed with the white mandator one of the greater acts of betrayal of the history of the modern football. Two years after that, the luso saw with strengths to confront to a Camp Nou that expected him of nails.

It was an environment really infernal for a man that received a pitada of 110 decibels, equivalent noise to the engine of an aeroplane under way. Although previously it had not dared to take out the corners of his team, this 23 November 2002 the thing was different. This yes, each launching of the of Madeira turned into all a rosary of objects launched to a man that had been all for the Barcelona team but that preferred the millions to the feeling. 

And in this arrived a head of cochinillo

The own Luis Medina Cantalejo, the referee of the crash, already had suspended the party during fifteen minutes by the environment so crispado. But the image of the party arrived before a launching from the corner of Figo. Without that the attacker percatase, from the terracing launched him a head of cochinillo. This even touched him the boot. Also calló, between other things, a bottle of glass that did not hit in anybody, fortunately. The image gave the turn to the world and caused a closing by two parties of the Camp Nou that never fulfilled .

And by what does to the party, the game saw interrupted by these controversial arrivals from likes it and finish with tie to zero in the luminous. On the green, an imberbe Carles Puyol appeared of the filial for from the side finish "drying" to Figo. His labeling was of manual, clean and effective. With him it began to gestar a myth that, years afterwards, would finish being of the best defences in the history of the club. All this the day that a head of cochinillo sobrevolo the Camp Nou and finish, naughty, in the lawn of the temple.