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Meet ex-Chelsea player Albert Ferrer's strange night at the Camp Nou

  /  autty

It's 20 years to the day that Albert 'Chapi' Ferrer returned to the Camp Nou as a Chelsea player.

The defender had spent almost the entirety of his career at Barcelona before moving to Stamford Bridge a couple of years before.

On this occasion, he was playing against the Blaugrana in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final, with Chelsea 3-1 up from the first leg.

"It was very strange," Ferrer told Barcelona's official website.

"We got to 2-1 [down on the night] thanks to Tore Andre Flo's goal in the 60th minute.

"However, that day, the [Camp Nou] worked its magic again."

Dani Garcia netted a late goal to take the tie to extra time, where the hosts came through to progress 6-4 on aggregate.

"The Camp Nou was the scene of another historic comeback," Ferrer said.

"It was very strange to experience from the other side, but now I have good memories of that day.

"It was my homecoming and I think, despite the tough defeat, that it turned out to be a special day."

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