The Figo Affair, a Netflix documentary, chronicles the story of one of football’s most controversial transfer stories: Luis Figo’s move from Barcelona to Real Madrid. The sale of Luis Figo from Barcelona to Real Madrid in 2000 was one of the most contentious in history.

The Figo Affair (El Caso Figo) is the latest in an impressive canon of biographical feature documentaries on some of sports’ most elusive stories made by the pair. It follows the controversial transfer of Luís Figo from Barcelona to Real Madrid in 2000, and the breathless political maneuvering, scheming and conspiring that helped make it happen.

What is The Figo Affair? Netflix has set its latest collaboration with London-based Pitch Productions titled The Figo Affair (El Caso Figo), a feature-length documentary centred around the story of Ballon d’Or winning Portuguese footballer Luís Figo’s transfer from FC Barcelona to Real Madrid.

Centered around the record-breaking and controversial transfer of Luis Figo from Barcelona to Real Madrid, The Figo Affair reveals the deal’s behind-the-scenes machinations that have been lost to time.

In The Figo Affair, then-Barcelona president Joan Gaspart retells the now famous story of how on the eve of the shocking announcement Figo called him at midnight asking for more money immediately. According to Gaspart, a vacationing Figo said “I’ve got two tickets. One’s from Lisbon to Madrid and the other’s Lisbon to Barcelona.