| The Portuguese national player and midfielder who | | | | impossible. Inter Milan announced on its web site |
| plays for the Italian champion Inter Milan, Luis Figo, | | | | that Figo is going to be operated next Tuesday, |
| broke his right calf several times last Sunday. | | | | November 6th, to stabilize his leg. Figo would have |
| From all the possible days this could happen it did | | | | been glad about a couple of additional active years |
| on his 35th birthday while at the league game | | | | in the US and said: "I could imagine myself playing |
| against Juventus Turin when he hurtled with the | | | | one more year in Los Angeles next to David |
| Czech Pavel Nedved. He will probably be out of | | | | Backham." They had played together already with |
| the action until the end of the year. | | | | Real Madrid. Unfortunately so far he hasn't got |
| The other player Pavel Nedved, who plays as | | | | any chance yet. |
| midfielder for Juventus since 2001, had to serve | | | | Figo, who was born in 1972 in Almada, Lisbon; |
| already a sentence of two weeks without play | | | | was a star already at an early age. With only |
| and other two games, because he got the red | | | | twelve years he was signed by the Sporting |
| card in the game against the FC Genua after an | | | | Lissabon for the youth club and achieved third |
| elbow check. | | | | place at the FIFA World Championship 1989 with |
| It was the first game since a year that both | | | | his Portuguese U16-Team. In 1991 he won his first |
| teams met again. It seemed to be the game of | | | | Junior Word Championship in Portugal with the |
| the year, as all the Italians, fans or no fans | | | | U20-Team. Back then he was 19 years old and |
| seemed to be excited to watch this special | | | | was already internationally known. In 1995 he |
| match. In TV commercials it says: "This is the | | | | changed over to FC Barcelona and became the |
| game we had all waited for from a year!" Back | | | | best football player ever. |
| then it was speculated that for many years Turin | | | | After he was elected to Europe's best football |
| hasn't won their titles with fair methods. Inter | | | | player of the year he changed over to Real |
| always came in a close second. Last year | | | | Madrid for a record amount of 60 Million Euros. |
| Juventus got convicted of referees' manipulations | | | | The following year he was elected to the World's |
| and they had to hand over the already celebrated | | | | best football player of the year. For the Italian |
| championship title to Inter Milan. | | | | team Inter Milan Figo only played for two years. |
| Luis Figo's contract with Inter expires at the end | | | | His last big appearance with his home country |
| of this season. After the bursted changeover to | | | | Portugal was in the World Cup 2006 when |
| Saudi-Arabian team Al-Itthihad Figo's early career | | | | Portugal lost at the third-place play-off against |
| end considering his mayor injury doesn't seem | | | | Germany with 1:3. |