Luis Figo, the legendary Portuguese soccer player and former Real Madrid star has joined the legendary list of players who won the Ballon d'Or award in 2000. Figo   has high a profile playing career with top clubs in Europe meant he made good money playing football. Zinedine Zidane loses to Luis Figo During this period, Figo made his controversial switch from Barcelona to Real Madrid and Zidane was still a Juventus player. Figo won the award with 197 points narrowly beating Zidane who ranked second with 181 points. The Ukrainian former professional football player soccer, Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko finished third with 85 points. Luís Figo was born in Almada (municipality and city in Portugal) on November 4th, 1972, has a wonderful career in the football stadiums, whether with the Portuguese national team or the clubs that he played with their jersey, most notably Barcelona, Real Madrid and Inter Milan of Italy. 

In his prime,Figo started his career with Sporting Lisbon , making his league debut most notably the Spanish League 4 times, the Italian League 4 times, the European Champions League, the European Super Cup twice, the European Cup Winners' Cup and the Intercontinental Cup winner. 

Throughout his national career, he made 127 caps and scored 32 goals. Until June 2016, Luis Figo held the record for most appearances with the Portugal national team, and also he is still Portugal's fourth-highest all-time goalscorer. 
He is the Portuguese’s third-most capped player with the most participation behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Joao Moutinho, and the former Barcelona star scored 32 goals to occupy the fourth place in the list of historical scorers titled for "Brazilian of Europe style".!