Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. is amongst the greatest football gamers in the world. The ahead made his debut for Brazil in 2010, when he was simply 18. Since he scored in his first match — a 2–0 defeat of the U.S. in a pleasant at Giants Stadium — no nationwide team player has scored extra international objectives, and solely the immortal Pelé scored extra in his career. Neymar scored three targets as Brazil won the silver medal on the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and then captained the nationwide team to a gold medal four years later in Rio de Janeiro, scoring 4 goals within the tournament.

One of several players to arrive to de-seat Jordi Alba at left-back and fail to do so. Firpo cost an initial €18m however by no means seemed snug in a Barca shirt. Barca didn't lose an excessive quantity of on the previous Real Betis defender, though, with Leeds United paying €15m to take him to England in 2021. Was part of the Leeds squad to be relegated from the Premier League last season. Another questionable swap deal whereby Barcelona signed goalkeeper Neto from Valencia for round €26m and Jasper Cillessen moved within the other direction for a similar charge. Neto, backup to Marc-Andre ter Stegen, then made simply 21 appearances across three seasons before becoming a member of AFC Bournemouth as a free agent.

The position of the Portuguese was to be the "10" of the group, so now the club would look for Neymar Jr to be the brand new 10 for Manchester City, in the coming weeks there will be more information about it... The actuality is that it's not but identified what he'll do, nonetheless, within the subsequent few days he'll receive an essential financial offer from a multimillion-dollar European giant, according to the newspaper 'The Sun', in England. Tite's side had been considered one of solely three groups to qualify for the knockout stages with a group sport to spare. Both Neymar and Danilo injured their ankles throughout Brazil's opening group stage match towards Serbia. FC Barcelona misfit Raphinha is on course to match membership legends Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez in his first season at Camp Nou.

The cost, supplied by an unknown supply, made him the most expensive soccer player. On 14 June 2015, in Brazil's opening Copa América fixture, Neymar scored the equaliser and assisted the stoppage-time successful objective by Douglas Costa as Brazil came from 0–1 down to beat Peru 2–1 in Temuco. After Brazil's second match, a 0–1 loss to Colombia in Santiago, Neymar was booked for handball, resulting in a suspension. After the ultimate whistle, he was purple carded for intentionally kicking the ball at Pablo Armero, and in consequence was pushed over by Colombian striker Carlos Bacca, who was additionally dismissed. CONMEBOL issued Neymar with a four-match ban, ruling him out for the remainder of the match, in addition to a $10,000 fantastic.

Inconveniently, from the Brazilians' viewpoint, a 2012 video has surfaced in which their very own coach, Tite, makes an analogous criticism of the participant. Mexico's coach, Juan Carlos Osorio, accused Neymar of setting a nasty example for children, adding that soccer is meant to be "a manly sport," and is "not for clowning around." England's former captain Alan Shearer described the Brazilian as a "magnificent player" but condemned his conduct as "completely pathetic."

On 7 November 2022, Neymar was named within the Brazil squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He played seventy nine minutes of Brazil's first match on 24 November, a 2–0 win towards Serbia, but was unable to play the next two group video games due to ankle ligament damage. On 28 November 2021, Neymar suffered an ankle damage in a 3–1 win over Saint-Étienne. His return from injury got here on 15 February 2022 in a Champions League match against Real Madrid, the place he came on instead and assisted Mbappé's injury-time goal to win the match 1–0.

The Brazilian soccer star has made quite a name for himself as a beginning ahead for Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil’s nationwide soccer team. Off the field, he is dating influencer and model Bruna Biancardi, and the 2 predict their first youngster together. Neymar can be a dad to son Davi Lucca, whom he shares together with his ex-girlfriend, Carolina Dantas.

On 21 April, Neymar took his tally to 30 goals for the season by scoring twice in Barcelona's 2–0 Champions League quarter-final win over Paris Saint-Germain . Neymar started the 2013 Campeonato Paulista scoring twice within the first match, which ended a 3–1 win over São Bernardo on 19 January 2013. Four days later on 23 January 2013, Neymar scored again in opposition to Botafogo in a 3–0 win. On 3 February 2013, in the Paulista fixture in opposition to São Paulo, where Santos gained 3–1, with Neymar scoring and making two assists. On 18 March 2013, Neymar advised that he had a "dream of taking part in in Europe, for an enormous membership like Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea." But he went on to say, "There's no point in speculating once I'll go away Santos. I'll leave once I wish to." On 25 August 2012, he scored a brace within the 2–1 away win at Palmeiras.