Neymar

NeymarCareer: football player, athlete

Date of birth: February 5, 1992

Age: 32 years

Place of birth: Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil

Position: Forward

Working leg: both (strong right)

Height/weight: 175 cm / 68 kg

Marital status: Not maried

 

 

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On this site you will find the most complete and up-to-date information about the life and career of the great Brazilian footballer Neymar. Here you will find all the most interesting news, statistics, videos and photos featuring your favorite player. Neymar is one of the brightest and most talented footballers of our time. He was born on February 5, 1992 in the suburbs of Sao Paulo, Brazil and from early childhood showed extraordinary athletic abilities. At a young age, Neymar began his professional career at the Santos FC club, where in 4 seasons he grew into a real star of Brazilian football. Neymar’s best friend Kylian Mbappe.

In 2013, 21-year-old Neymar moved to the world grand Barcelona, ​​where he quickly became a key player on the team and one of the leaders of the Blaugrana. As part of the Catalan club, he won many trophies, including the UEFA Champions League, Spanish Championships, Spanish Cups and UEFA and Spanish Super Cups. In addition, Neymar is a key player for the Brazilian national team, for which he made his debut in 2010. Over 10 years with the Selecao, Neymar played more than 100 matches, scoring 70 goals. He was a key player in the Brazilian team that won the Copa America in 2019. Unfortunately, due to constant injuries, Neymar has not yet managed to win the World Cup with the national team, which is his main dream.

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In 2017, Neymar moved to the French giants Paris Saint-Germain, where he continues to demonstrate outstanding football, regularly scoring goals and providing assists. Despite some disagreements with the coaches and management of the club, Neymar remains a key player for the Parisian team. In addition to his football achievements, Neymar is known for his bright, extravagant lifestyle. He often becomes a hero of the social chronicle, appearing at various events, parties and flying on private jets. His relationships with girls always attract the close attention of fans and paparazzi. Top of the best goalkeepers Yassine bounou!

Despite his fame and success, Neymar remains an open and friendly person, always ready to communicate with fans. He is actively involved in charity, helping children from low-income families in Brazil. This is why Neymar enjoys such great love and respect all over the world. This fan site was created to give all Neymar fans the opportunity to follow his career, discuss his performances and simply enjoy the talent and charisma of one of the greatest footballers of our time. Here you will find the latest and most reliable information, exclusive photos and videos, statistics, match analysis and much more. Join our friendly community of Neymar fans!

Biography

Neymar is a Brazilian footballer, forward for the French PSG and the Brazilian national team. The player holds a number of records and many sports titles. To these should be added the title of the most expensive in financial terms: the desire to see Magrelo (Neymar’s nickname) in the ranks of Paris Saint-Germain cost the club’s owners €222 million.

Childhood and youth

The athlete was born in the Brazilian city of Mogi das Cruzes. His full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior (Junior), but for ease of pronunciation in the world community the Brazilian is simply called by his first name – Neymar. The father of the future celebrity was a former football player, and at the time of his son’s birth he was engaged in the sale of jewelry. His mother was a housewife. Neymar has a younger sister, Rafaella.

The athlete was born in the Brazilian city of Mogi das Cruzes. His full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior (Junior), but for ease of pronunciation in the world community the Brazilian is simply called by his first name – Neymar. The father of the future celebrity was a former football player, and at the time of his son’s birth he was engaged in the sale of jewelry. His mother was a housewife. Neymar has a younger sister, Rafaella.

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Soon after the birth of the heir, the family moved to Sao Vicente. At a young age, the Brazilian did not suspect that he would become a famous football player. Having watched cartoons, he dreamed of becoming Superman or a Power Ranger.

When Neymar Jr. grew up, he began to show interest in his father’s favorite sport. The head of the family himself became the first football coach for the future Barcelona forward, teaching the boy the intricacies of the game of millions. In 2003, the child was accepted to the children’s academy of the Santos football club, and the family again changed their place of residence – they moved to the city of Santos, which is consonant with both the name of the team and their own surname.

The boy’s success on the football field was so noticeable that the 14-year-old teenager was invited to the youth academy of the Spanish grandee – Real Madrid. But Santos made every effort, managing to keep the young athlete with them. Since then, the player began to earn decent money, which allowed the family to buy their own house.

Club career

At the age of 17, Neymar’s professional football career officially began: he signed his first contract with his hometown club Santos. In his second match for the main team, the young player scored his first goal in big football. In the spring of 2010, Santos won the main trophy and became the champion of the state of Sao Paulo, and Neymar himself was recognized as the best player of the championship. After that, the team won the Brazilian Cup, and Neymar with 11 goals became the tournament’s top scorer. In the summer, the club won the main tournament of South America – the Copa Libertadores, in which the champions and vice-champions of the continent’s countries participated. In 2011, Neymar was awarded the FIFA Ferenc Puskas Award, which is given to the player who scored the most beautiful goal. This prize went to the striker for an incredible goal against Flamengo. Before the final strike, Neymar single-handedly dealt with the opponent’s defense.

It cannot be said that the forward has special physical data (height 174 cm, weight 68 kg), which help him to work miracles on the field, but, as football analysts believe, Neymar’s technique and work with the ball are at a high level. In 2011, the 19-year-old footballer was recognized as the best player in Brazil and South America. Neymar was nominated for the Golden Ball. The incredible success of the athlete caused close interest in his person from the leading clubs of world football. Representatives of Real Madrid, London Chelsea, Turin Juventus and other FC approached the management of Santos with lucrative offers regarding the transfer of Neymar. In the end, Barcelona was lucky. Neymar scored his debut goal in the blue and garnet shirt in the game for the Spanish Super Cup against Atletico Madrid. The footballer needed 6 minutes after coming on as a substitute for the ball to end up in the opponent’s net. Also in the first season, Neymar broke Lionel Messi’s record by scoring the fastest hat-trick in the club’s history. It took Neymar 13 minutes to score 3 goals against Scottish Celtic. The next season was a triumph for Barcelona. The team won the Spanish championship, the Spanish Cup and the Champions League. Neymar shared the title of the Champions League’s top scorer with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and also broke several club and personal records in football competitions.

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In the 2016/2017 season, Neymar demonstrated negative performance statistics. The Brazilian played 28 matches, scoring 13 goals. Such indicators looked depressing against the background of Messi and Luis Suarez’s performance. In March 2017, British media reported on the Brazilian’s possible transfer to London’s Chelsea, since Roman Abramovich, the owner of the English team, had already agreed with the Catalan club’s management to acquire the forward, but the head coach of the “aristocrats” Antonio Conte banned the deal. In August 2017, Neymar bought out his contract from Barcelona for €222 million in order to comply with financial fairplay rules and move to France without any problems. The footballer planned to play for Paris Saint-Germain for 5 years and receive a salary of €30 million per year, according to the British TV channel Sky Sports. Another €40 million went to the account of the striker’s father as a personal agent. Neymar’s statistics for the first six months of his games at PSG were impressive. The forward was among the leaders in the scorer race with 11 goals scored and 10 assists. In the Champions League, he managed to score 6 goals in 6 matches and take part in 4 assists. In addition, he won the French Cup and Super Cup and led the team to victory in the French League Cup.

In December 2019, in a match against Saint-Etienne in the French championship, PSG defeated the opponent with a score of 2:0, but this fact did not attract the attention of the fans. In the 62nd minute, Neymar had to take a penalty, but for the first time in two years, he failed to convert it, hitting the post. Neymar spent a lot of time on the field, regularly training and honing his ball handling skills. However, not all of the footballer’s tricks used during games are to his advantage. In early February 2020, the PSG striker received a yellow card in the 22nd round of the French championship. More precisely, Neymar received the card not for the feint he performed, but for arguing with the referee.

The previous match against Lille, in which the athlete participated, also caused no less discussion. After scoring a goal against the opponents, the Brazilian folded his fingers into the numbers 2 and 4, thus dedicating the goal to Kobe Bryant, who passed away the day before. Kobe was called the symbol of basketball for a couple of generations, the American professional shooting guard played in the National Basketball Association for 20 seasons for one team – the Los Angeles Lakers. In May 2021, the striker extended his contract with PSG until 2025. Under the terms of the new contract, the player received a salary of about € 30 million per year before taxes and without bonuses. The media presented an interview with the newcomer to the Parisian FC, defender Sergio Ramos, who commented on the possible transfer of the Parisian forward Kylian Mbappe to the Spanish Real Madrid. Ramos noted that the French club now needs the best players and Kylian, along with Neymar, is one of those athletes. At the same time, the club showed a tough policy regarding Neymar’s participation in the Tokyo Olympics from Brazil, although the player was eager to appear at these competitions. In a November meeting with Saint-Etienne, Neymar suffered an ankle injury, which is why he did not play on the field for the rest of the year.In August 2023, it became known that Neymar was moving to the Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal. A contract with him was signed for 2 years with an option to extend it for another year. The deal was unofficially estimated at € 100 million. The footballer scored his first goal for Al-Hilal only in his fifth match for the team.

Brazil National Team

Neymar made his debut for the national team in August 2010 in a game against the US national team, although fans demanded that the forward be included in the team that had participated in the World Cup in South Africa two months earlier. Fans even collected 14 thousand signatures in support of the footballer. In addition, the legendary Pele personally campaigned for Neymar, but Dunga, the head coach of the Brazilian national team, considered the striker too young for such a competition. At the home World Cup in 2014, the footballer was recognized as the best player of the match several times: he scored goals that decided the outcome of the matches. But in the quarterfinal match against the Colombian national team, the opposing defender Juan Zuniga inflicted a serious injury on Neymar, breaking the Brazilian striker’s third vertebra, which is why the athlete was unable to continue playing in the tournament. The Brazilian national team ingloriously lost to the Germans with a score of 1:7 in the next game, leaving the competition.

Neither the fans, nor the players, nor the team coach doubted Neymar’s importance for the national team, so after the World Cup the forward was appointed captain of the “yellow-greens”. Since then, the uniform and shirts with the number ten have become popular in Brazil. And already in 2016, at the Olympic Games in Brazil, the athlete showed a brilliant game and brought the team a historic gold. Shortly before the 2018 World Cup, Neymar was injured. Doctors of the Brazilian national team, concerned about the health of their main hope, took the athlete home to have an operation on his foot. By the World Cup in Russia, the forward had managed to recover and earn the title of the best player of the 1/8 finals. Neymar holds several more tournament records: the author of the latest goal in regular time, the leader in shots on the ball and shots on target, the best player according to the InStat index. He was fouled 23 times during the championship, and here the Brazilian is also first. During the competition, the footballer changed his hairstyle three times, and jokes about the 14 minutes during which the striker pretended to suffer while lying on the grass did not leave the pages of the media for a couple of months.

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In May 2019, Tite (Adenor Leonardo Bacchi) invited Neymar to join the national team to participate in the America’s Cup. In June of the same year, the footballer was injured while playing in a friendly match against the Qatar national team. Therefore, the player did not appear at the tournament. In October, another “anniversary” in the striker’s career took place – the Brazilian played his 100th match for the national team, where it fought against Senegal. Together with the Brazilian national team, Neymar participated in the America’s Cup in 2021, appearing in the spectacular final of the match against the Argentina team.

For the second time in their history, the Brazilians lost this stage at the Maracana, but this fact was taken quite calmly by the footballers. Footage of congratulations from national team athletes has appeared online. Journalists captured friendly hugs between Lionel Messi and Neymar, who was genuinely happy for his opponent. In the fall of 2022, the footballer joined the national team for the World Cup in Qatar. Sports analysts wrote that this World Cup is a very important stage for stars such as Neymar, Ronaldo and Messi. The best players had to demonstrate maximum effort to win.

While waiting for the first match with the Serbian national team, Neymar made a small mistake that cost him a wave of hate on the Internet. The athlete posted a photo of shorts on his personal blog, where 6 stars were on the emblem of his national team. The stars personified the victories of the Brazilian team at the World Cup – the team won gold 5 times. The presence of the 6th star was perceived negatively by ill-wishers, who accused the footballer of arrogance. The Brazilian national team reached the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup, where they were defeated by Croatia. Neymar took the loss hard and supported his teammates.

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In October, Neymar played for Brazil against Uruguay. At the end of the first half, he was injured and left the field in tears in an electric car. After examination, it turned out that the Brazilian had suffered damage to the anterior cruciate ligament and a torn meniscus in his knee. He was scheduled for surgery, which was successful, but after it, a long rehabilitation was still necessary. It was assumed that Neymar would miss about 10 months and return to the field no earlier than the summer of 2024. After learning the diagnosis, the athlete called what happened to him the worst moment in his career.

In the summer of 2024, Neymar missed the Copa America. In July, he returned to training for the first time since his injury. Now the athlete continues his recovery. His return to the field was expected no earlier than the fall.

Achievements and awards

  • 2010 — Winner of the Brazilian Cup
  • 2011 — Winner of the Libertadores Cup
  • 2012 — Winner of the Recopa Sudamericana
  • 2013 — Winner of the Spanish Super Cup
  • 2015 — Winner of the UEFA Super Cup
  • 2015/2016 — Champion of Spain
  • 2016/2017 — Winner of the Spanish Cup
  • 2017/2018, 2019/20, 2020/21 — Winner of the French Cup
  • 2018 — Winner of the French Super Cup
  • 2018/2019 — Champion of France
  • 2011 — Champion of South America among youth teams
  • 2013 — Winner of the Confederations Cup
  • 2014 — Winner of the “Bronze Boot”
  • 2016 — Olympic Champion
  • 2021 — Finalist of the America’s Cup

FAQ

What position does Neymar play?
Neymar primarily plays as a forward or winger.
Which clubs has Neymar played for?
Neymar has played for Santos, Barcelona, and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).
How many goals has Neymar scored for Brazil?
Neymar has scored over 70 goals for the Brazilian national team.
What are Neymar's major achievements?
Neymar has won multiple league titles, UEFA Champions League, and Copa America.
Is Neymar considered one of the best players?
Yes, Neymar is often ranked among the top football players in the world.
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