Neymar's Life and Career Journey in Football "Which Was Almost Paralyzed After the 2014 World Cup"

In addition to Messi and Ronaldo, the world also has extraordinary talents that come from the land of samba. He is Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior.

Neymar, born on February 5, 1992 in Mogi Das Cruzes, Sao Paolo, Brazil. He was born to Neymar Santos Sr. (Footballer) and Nadine Santos. At the age of 4 months, Neymar had a terrible accident. The car that he was riding in collided with another great car. But miraculously, little Neymar survived. He was in the back seat and did not suffer the slightest injury.

In a way, Neymar's childhood was not as fortunate as other children. His father was just a freelance worker, even to study at night even Neymar only relied on candles as lighting. Neymar is just an ordinary kid who after school often plays soccer with his peers. Neymar sometimes also plays futsal, he combines his love for futsal with street soccer.

Thanks to the skills possessed, Neymar amazed many people. At the age of 11, Neymar often played soccer on the streets of Sao Paulo. His natural style of sambal play led Neymar to be recruited by many people to play street football in the city he lived.

He is very familiar with street people in Brazil. His speed and dribbling skills make many people think that he deserves to play football on the field. Until finally the father found out the talent possessed by Neymar.

Not like rich kids. Neymar's football career began on the futsal court. He continued to hone his skills by playing futsal. He looks the most prominent from his friends. Many people are impressed with Neymar's actions when playing football. Because of that, the father decided to take Neymar on the professional track.

With all the limitations, the father always supports the talents and interests of the child. In between his busy time, he often takes Neymar Jr. to go to practice. Because the father is a former soccer player, many consider that Neymar's talent descended from his father. There are so many matches that make it extraordinary.

His parents always supported Neymar even they always kissed his child before the match began. The first club that Neymar entered was Portuguese Santista. At that time he was with the club from 1999 to 2003. In 2003 his family decided to move to the city of Santos and Neymar was finally out of the Portuguese Portuguese Club.

Then Neymar played at the Santos FC academy, at that time he was not even 12 years old. He trained at the Santos Junior club for 6 years from 2003-2009, Finally after 6 years at Santos Junior, he entered the senior team in 2009. During the defense of Santos FC Neymar also has a story full of obstacles. While undergoing his professional career in Brazil, he had an argument with the coach. Dorival Junior, his coach at that time told Neymar not to take a penalty kick and preferred his partner Marcel to be the executioner. This made Neymar angry, he would attack the coach to make a line judge must intervene to break up the dispute between the two.

But after that incident, Neymar apologized to the coach. However, this was not heeded, Neymar was sentenced by the coach for not appearing in the next match. The news spread to the Club's Board of Directors. The club did not like the way Dorival chose to fire him.

The dismissal of the coach shows that Neymar has an important role for the team. They also think that if Neymar will save Brazilian football.

While Neymar's professional debut with Santos FC took place on March 7, 2009, despite being only 17 years old, he entered for the last thirty minutes, in a 2-1 win against Oeste. The following week he scored his first goal for Santos against Mogi Mirim. First season with Santos, Neymar was able to collect 14 goals in 48 matches.

In 2010, Neymar succeeded in getting Santos FC to win the Campeonato Paulista 2010 by scoring 14 goals throughout the tournament. In the same year, Neymar has created 42 goals in one season. These achievements made Neymar ranked third in the 2010 South American Footballer of the Year award.

For his glorious appearance, two English clubs, West Ham United and Chelsea offered an offer to Santos FC to recruit Neymar. But the club was reluctant to let go, Neymar also stated his attitude to focus on playing at Santos FC.

The 2011 season Neymar won several awards such as World Soccer Young Player of the Year, Best Player of the Brazilian League, best player Copa Libertadores, Brazilian Golden Ball and South American Footballer of the Year.

Not only West Ham United and Chelsea, Real Madrid were also interested in buying it from Santos FC in 2011, but only at that time, Neymar Jr. preferred to extend his contract with Santos FC.

During the defense of Santos FC from 2009-2013 Neymar has played 103 appearances with a collection of 54 goals.

Neymar's professional career continues to Spain. In the summer of 2013 he was officially hired by Barcelona at a cost of 57 million Euros and was contracted for a term of 5 seasons. Had a small spark occurred on the transfer. Brazilian football is disappointed with the transfer of the young star. According to him Neymar deserves to be valued with a higher value. According to them, it was the most disappointing transfer for Brazilian football.

Starting his career with La Blaugrana, Neymar successfully performed impressively and many fans. His debut with Barcelona in La Liga occurred on August 18, 2013 when Barcelona won 7-0 over Levante. While his debut in the Champions League occurred on 18 September 2013 when Barcelona met Ajax Amsterdam. Together with Barca Neymar scored many important goals, especially when dealing with Real Madrid in the El Clasico match.

On 11 December 2013 Neymar recorded his first goal in the Champions League and he also scored a hat trick in a 6-1 win over Celtic in Group H.

2014/15 season, Neymar played even more brilliant and scored 39 goals in all competitions. With these goals scored, this Brazilian player also successfully donated the title of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the European Champions League for the Catalan team. In that season he was also listed as the top scorer in the Champions League along with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Together with Barcelona, ??Neymar has won many titles including 2 La Liga titles, 2 Copa del Rey titles, 1 Spanish super cup title, 1 champions league title, and 1 inter-club world cup title. He also collected 68 goals from 123 appearances for Barca.

After undergoing his glorious years with Barcelona. Rich team from France, Paris Saint Germain is interested in bringing the Brazilian star. Through tough negotiations, finally Barca was willing to release Neymar with a tag of 222 million euros or around 3.5 trillion rupiahs which made him the world's most expensive player breaking Paul Pogba's record that was held by MU from Juventus.

In the early days of his career at Paris Saint Germain, he had a quarrel with teammate Edinson Cavani. Neymar often asked for a penalty from his team mate.

Behind the unruly actions, Neymar is a gentle person. At the age of 19, he had impregnated a girl named Carolina Dantas. But the incident did not necessarily make Neymar 'run'. Throughout the day she accompanied Carolina, even when she was about to deliver, Neymar was by her side. Until finally the child of the results of his love was born, he gave the name Davvi Luca.

He also showed compassionate behavior to the mother. He often spent time with his mother. In fact, according to him, he prefers to accompany his mother rather than go partying with his friends.

In addition, his first season with Paris Saint Germain Neymar successfully won the French league title.

While at the national team level, he is often a mainstay of Brazil. Noted he was part of the Brazilian U-23 national team who appeared at the 2012 London Olympics and won a silver medal. He also defended Brazil U-17 in the U-17 World Cup in 2009. His debut in the senior national team occurred on 10 August 2010 against the United States, at that time Brazil was trained by Mano Menezes.

Neymar also appeared in the 2013 Confederations Cup and successfully led Brazil to win, he also won the title of the tournament's best player. In the following year Neymar became Brazil's main player in the 2014 World Cup held at home. Unfortunately, Neymar had to end the world cup sooner because of a severe injury after being violated by Colombian defender Juan Camilo Zuniga in the quarter-finals. In the fight for the ball, Zuniga then beat Neymar's back with his knee. Instantly also Neymar fell and grimaced in pain holding his back.

Even so Brazil still qualified for the semifinals after a 2-1 win over Colombia, Brazil also qualified for the semifinals to meet Germany, Neymar must be absent in this fight. He could only watch his country being beaten by Germany with a score of 7-1. Brazil itself ended the tournament by finishing fourth.

Neymar also performed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was able to present a gold medal for his country. During the defense of the Brazilian national team Neymar senior has played 96 matches with notched 60 goals.

Thanks to his expertise in processing the round leather and for the various achievements he made, there are many companies or sponsors who want to invite him to cooperate. Noted Neymar has signed many sponsors. In March 2011, he signed an 11-year contract with the Nike sports clothing company. In the same month, Panasonis paid US $ 2.4 million to secure Neymar's services for two years. He has also signed other sponsors from Volkswagen, Tenis pe Baruel, Lupo, AmBev, Claro, Unilever and Santander.

On May 8, 2013 Neymar was rated by SportsPro magazine as the most valuable athlete in the world, he defeated Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who were second and third. In addition, Neymar is also the only soccer player included in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to TIME magazine in 2017. Then Neymar is also a figure on the front cover of the video game Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2013.

That's the biography of Neymar Junior. His success as a footballer and brilliant Raihan Neymar could not be separated from the extraordinary role of his parents.

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