Who is Luis Figo?

Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo, (born 4 November 1972 in Almada, Portugal) is a professional Portuguese footballer. In his homeland Figo is considered by many second only to Eusébio as Portugal’s greatest player ever. He plays as a midfielder and winger, currently for Internazionale.

Figo was the 2000 European Footballer of the Year, the 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year, and was named amongst the FIFA 100. Known for his exceptional trickery and dribbling skills on either wing (though he predominantly plays on the right), Figo is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Personal information
Full name: Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo
Date of birth: November 4, 1972 (1972-11-04) (age 35)
Place of birth: Almada, Portugall
Height: 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position: Right Winger

Club information

Current club: Internazionale
Number: 7

Youth clubs

Os Pastilhas

Sporting CP

Senior clubs
Year: 1989–1995 1995–2000 2000–2005 2005–

Club: Sporting CP FC Barcelona Real Madrid Internazionale
Appearance(Goals): 137 (16) 172 (30) 165 (36) 83 0(8)

National team
1991–2006 Portugal 127 (32)

You may link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Figo for more information about Figo.

Samsung Electronics, "Thanks! Figo"

In addition to the previous post of this web site, The Donga.com, one of the top 3 newspapers in Korea, explained that the reason that Samsung's SD digital camcorder became the No.1 category in quantity in Italy was because Samsung has raised Samsung's branding image by utilizing Luis Fio, who is a world famous Italian soccer player at Inter Milan soccer professional team, as a model. With this upward trend, Samsung's strategy is to be the No. 1 in the world market in the digital camcorder category. On the other hand, based on the sold quantity of the digital camcorder market in Italy from January to May, Sony was No.1 with 30.3% and Samsung was No. 2 with 26.9%.

Followings are some screens shots that Samsung used Figo as a model in its advertisement.

This is an image used with a stand such as an X banner.

This seems to be taken at a Samsung booth participated in an electronic exhibition in Italy.

This picture is a Figo & Samsung camcorder image that was taken from the real display at Media Mart which is a German digital distributor company, one of the largest digital markets in Europe.