Figo: Barcelona abuse at the Camp Nou went down well with Coca-Cola Real Madrid The subject of many objects thrown in 2002

Luis Figo revealed that his first return to the Camp Nou after joining Real Madrid from rivals Barcelona in 2002 actually got him in the good books of one of his sponsors.

Each corner-kick that the Portuguese star went to take was met with an avalanche of objects aimed at him from his former fans, but he used his initiatve to turn the situation in his favour.

"I was in charge of taking the corners and I was focused because I wanted to do my job in the most professional way possible.

"But there came a time when I couldn't because the amount of objects heading my way were such that I couldn't describe.

"All I remember is that it favoured me because, at that time, Coca-Cola sponsored me and I saw a bottle on the grass and picked it up as if I was shooting an ad," he said.

"The next day I had the opportunity to see in the newspapers that whiskey bottles and pigs heads' were thrown. There was a bit of everything," he concluded.