Biography of Neymar da Silva Santos Jr
Online citizenship: Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior was born on February 5, 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. Neymar started his football at the age of 15 as a semi-professional footballer and at the age of 17 as a professional footballer.
Neymar inherited his name from his father (Neymar da Silva Sr.) who was also a footballer and helps his son as a consultant. Neymar is married and has a son named Davi Luca.
In 2011, France Football magazine named Neymar as the seventh highest paid footballer in the world.
Santos Football Club
Neymar moved to Saint Vincent with his family in 1992 to play for Santos’ youth team. Then, in 2003, he was able to enter the senior team of Santos and was able to earn a monthly salary of 10,000 reais (Brazilian currency) at the age of 15 and 25,000 reais (Brazilian currency) at the age of 16. achieve to support his family financially and improve his quality of life.
At the age of 17, Neymar entered the first team of Santos football club in Brazil by signing an official contract.
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Season 2009–2010
Neymar made his professional debut on March 7, 2009, despite being only 17 years old, against Ouest for 30 minutes in a 2 – 1 win. In his second game, Neymar scored his first goal for Santos against Mogi Mirim Club. In the 2009–2010 Brazilian League season, Neymar managed to score 14 goals in 48 games.
In 2010, the English Chelsea football club showed its interest in Neymar by offering Santos 20 million pounds to sign the Brazilian striker, and the Santos club rejected this offer and announced that Neymar only thinks about Santos and playing in Brazil. Although Neymar said in an interview with the English newspaper Daily Telegraph, I am really happy that Chelsea offered me to play in the English Premier League and it is my dream to play football in Europe one day, but at this moment the best decision is to play in my country. to play
Pele’s opposition to Neymar’s presence in Europe
While big European clubs such as Real Madrid, Manchester United, Barcelona and Manchester City want to recruit the 19-year-old Brazilian star, the Santos club did not agree to the departure of the star of their team and Neymar is still in his former team. A decision that Pele didn’t agree with at first, but now he considers Neymar’s stay in Brazil until the 2014 World Cup technically in his favor.
Pele said in an interview with «Associated Sport»: I think it will be very difficult to keep Neymar in Brazil. Santos is a club where I myself have played and Neymar started his career in the world of football with us. I hope that the conditions will be arranged in such a way that we can have him stay in Brazil until the World Cup or after it, although this is unlikely to happen.
Pele praised Neymar’s abilities and said: He is a very good player and can become a great player in the future. A player on the level of Kaka, Messi or Ronaldo, Zico and Pele. I have no doubts about this and I hope that in the near future he will reach his true potential and become a legend in world football.
Neymar and Lionel Messi
Pele also said about Neymar’s presence in the English Premier League or the Bundesliga: I think Neymar’s job will be a little difficult if he goes to England or Germany. Premier League and Bundesliga teams are known for intensive training in the entire field, and with these conditions, Neymar’s work in these leagues becomes difficult. Maybe playing in Spain is better for him.
The world football legend, who has won three World Cup championships with Brazil, said about Neymar’s unsuccessful appearance in the Copa America in the Brazilian national team: «Don’t judge too soon.» This is football. Before the start of the competition, everyone said that this year we will see a spectacular final between Brazil and Argentina. The audience thought how interesting the duel between Neymar and Messi would be in the final. All this happened before the start of the competition, but you saw that both Brazil and Argentina were unfortunately eliminated and it was not the fault of a particular player.
Getting to know the history of the World Cup
Neymar is only 20 years old and has not yet made the big leap to European football; But now it has become a money making machine for himself and others.
2013
Neymar announced on March 18, 2013 that now is the time for me to achieve my dream of playing in Europe for big teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Chelsea, and I have no problem leaving Santos and I will go to any club whenever I want.
Barcelona football club
After receiving offers from European clubs such as Real Madrid and Chelsea, Neymar finally signed a contract on May 24, 2013 with a contract of 5 years for an approximate amount of 56 million euros, this was when the president of the Real Madrid club, Florentino Perez. He offered Neymar $150 million. After joining Barcelona, Neymar said in an interview with the exclusive channel of the Barcelona club: «My dream was to play in Barcelona and it was also my dream to play alongside Lionel Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and Dani Alves.»
Being in Barcelona was the start of Neymar’s career to become a star. At the beginning, he could not show all his abilities, but he gradually fit into the Barca lineup and was able to form a good triangle with Messi and Sanchez. 2 months after Neymar’s presence in Barcelona, Tito Vilanova had to resign from the coaching position of Barcelona due to a cancerous tumor in his throat. After that, Tata Martino took charge of Barcelona, but Neymar only won the Spanish Super Cup with Barcelona in 2014.
But the 2014/15 season was a dream for Neymar. At the end of this season, Barcelona managed to win the treble for the second time in history. Undoubtedly, the stunning performance of Messi, Neymar and Suarez in Barcelona’s attack line was not ineffective in this matter. Neymar, who was experiencing the second season, achieved many championships and was able to become the top scorer of the European Champions League by scoring 10 goals jointly with Messi and Ronaldo. In addition, Neymar won the Spanish Cup by scoring 7 goals.
Neymar started the 2015/16 season more stormy. Messi’s injury at the very beginning of the season paved the way for Neymar and Suarez to shine, Neymar had either scored or assisted goals in all competitions before the half of the season, and this had caused him to be praised by everyone. The same thing made a Brazilian to be on the final list to receive the world player of the year award after 7 years. Neymar’s dazzling brilliance made him one of the 3 final candidates for the Ballon d’Or. While most of the world’s media voted for Neymar for the Ballon d’Or, his teammate Messi won the award for the fifth time, and Neymar finished third behind Ronaldo.
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Messi – Neymar – Suarez
Income generation of Neymar
According to Diario de Sao Paulo, the Brazilian star received more than 60 million reals (Brazilian currency) in 2012. (approximately equivalent to 22.5 million euros) which means that Neymar is currently richer than 13 teams in the Brazilian league.
However, the largest amount of Neymar’s income does not come from his salary, but from his eleven sponsors (including Unilever, Red Bull, Panasonic, Nike and Banco Santander), who each pay him around 1.1 million euros per year. .
On top of these amounts, there is 200,000 euros, which the player earns from sponsors for each appearance in the media and the proceeds from the sale of products under the Neymar brand, which reached more than 1.5 million euros last year.
Confederations Cup 2013 Brazil
In the Confederations Cup, which was held in Brazil, Neymar was able to win the title of the championship of this tournament with a sweet victory against the Spanish national team with a score of 3–0. Neymar was named the best player of the Confederations Cup by scoring 4 goals in this cup.
One of the most bitter days of Neymar’s football is his violent confrontation with Colombia’s defender Zuniga during the 2014 World Cup matches. With the violent blow he gave to Neymar’s back, Zuniga kept the player at home for 4 months, and Brazil had to play the remaining matches of the World Cup without their captain. The absence of Neymar in the squad had dampened the spirits of the other players of the Brazilian national team, and they had to face Germany in the first semi-final after winning against Colombia. The Germans, who finally won the cup, defeated the Brazilian national team with a strange and heavy result of 7–0 and reached the final, and maybe Neymar was just happy that he was not in this game.
After the nightmare World Cup, he returned to Spain to continue his treatment under the supervision of Barcelona doctors, and after 4 months, Neymar was able to get the conditions to play.
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Club records:
199 games and 121 goals since 2009
Neymar has participated in the national teams of Brazil under the age of 17 (three games and one goal), under the age of 20 (7 games and 9 goals) and under the age of 23 (7 games and 4 goals).
From Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain
Confirmed by Paris Saint-Germain’s website in 2017, by paying a release clause of 222 million euros to Barcelona, Neymar officially became a Paris Saint-Germain player, and the 25-year-old star signed a 5-year contract with PSG. According to this contract, Neymar’s weekly salary in Paris Saint-Germain will be 515 thousand pounds. With this transfer, the record of the most expensive transfer in the history of football, which previously belonged to the 105 million euro transfer of Paul Pogba to Manchester United, was broken.
Honors:
a club
Barcelona:
La Liga champion in the 2014–15 season
Champion of the Spanish Cup in the 2014–15 season
Champion of the Spanish Super Cup in the 2013 season
Champion of the European Champions League in the 2014–15 season
European Super Cup champion in 2015 season
Club World Cup champion in 2015 season
Santos:
Three Paulista Cup championships (Sao Paulo state championship) in 2010, 2011 and 2012
Champion of the 2010 Brazilian Cup
2011 Libertadores Cup champion
2012 South American Super Cup champion
National team
Brazil:
2011 South American Youth Champion
American Super Classic champion (match between Brazil and Argentina) in 2011, 2012 and 2014
2012 London Olympic silver medal
Confederations Cup champion in 2013
Individual
World Soccer magazine’s best young player of the year: 2011
The best Brazilian Serie A player: 2011
Member of the Brazilian Serie A team: 2010, 2011, 2012
Brazil Silver Ball (best player in his position): 2010, 2011
Ballon d’Or Brazil (best player): 2011
Golden Shoe (most goals in all Brazilian competitions): 2010, 2011 and 2012
Mr. Goal of the Brazil Cup: 2010
Mr. Gol, South American Youth Championship: 2011
World Club Cup bronze ball (third best player): 2011
South American Player of the Year: 2011 and 2012
Puskash Award (Best Goal of the Year): 2011
Mr. Goal Paulista Cup: 2012
The best player of the Libertadores Cup: 2011
Mr. Goal of the Libertadores Cup: 2012 (with Matias Alostias)
Confederations Cup Golden Ball (best player award): 2013
Confederations Cup bronze shoe (third top scorer): 2013
Confederations Cup dream team: 2013
Golden Samba (the best Brazilian player working in Europe): 2014 and 2015
Mr. Goal of the European Champions League: 2014–15 (10 goals, shared with Messi and Ronaldo)
Selected team of the European Champions League: 2014–15
FIFA selected team: 2015
Mr. Goal of the Spanish Cup by scoring 6 goals in the 2014–15 season
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