Following the leaked audio tapes of President Florentino Pérez, Luís Figo is the first to speak out. The former Real Madrid winger was one of many victims of Perez, who has embarrassed himself and Real Madrid in recent weeks with leaked tapes of El Confidencial. On the audio file, which comes from 2006, you can hear that Pérez Figo mentions, among other things, a whore boy. The two have since been in touch.
Ike Casillas, Raul, Figo, Vicente del Bosque, Jose Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo. The names that Pérez spoke about in secret have followed each other in rapid succession in recent weeks. Real Madrid soon felt compelled to make a statement and blamed journalist José Antonio Abellán, who is accused of blackmail. According to the Spanish superpower, Abellán would like to look forward to a considerable amount of money to have the tapes removed. That did not happen, after which everything appeared in public. Both former Real Madrid players and coaches have been victims since then.
In a 15-year-old clip, when Pérez retired for the first time from his post as president at the Royal, he attacked Figo personally. “Figo is un hijo de puta (Young whore, ed.)”, can be heard in the fragment from September 2006. It is not known who Pérez is talking to at that moment. “He has disrupted the entire dressing room, together with Raúl. They were by far the worst.” Real Madrid said in the statement that Abellán tried in 2011 to bribe Eduardo Fernández de Blas, then vice-president of Real, for ten million euros.
Tuesday evening, after el Classico for legends between Barça and Real Madrid, Figo was asked to comment on the tapes. Figo made the offending move from Barcelona to Real in 2000. Something that twenty years later has still not been appreciated, as he was whistled on Tuesday. “I think in a private conversation statements are made that are not related to them,” said Figo. “I had the opportunity to speak to Perez and he has apologized to me. For me it is a closed case.”
Florentino Pérez is linked to corruption in new leaked tape
The audio clip from September 15, 2009 features a conversation between Fernando Fernández, the first vice president of the Royal and right-hand man of Pérez, and a representative of Felipe Calderón, then president of Mexico.
“Did you talk to him after the audio came out?” the reporter asks. “Yes, but hey, it’s a private conversation and he has apologized, for me it’s closed,” Figo repeated again. In the latest leaked tape, Pérez is associated with corruption. From research by El Confidencial It turns out that the president of Real Madrid was involved in a Mexican corruption case around 2009. According to reports, Pérez’s construction company, ACS, was awarded major government projects in Mexico in exchange for tickets to Real Madrid games, free flights and hotel stays.