Neymar da Silva Santos Jr

Full name : Neymar da Silva Santos Jr Date of birth : 5 February 1992 Neymar is a Brazilian footballer ,

plays as a forward for US PSG and the Brazil national team. . He is known for his high skill, dribbling, pace, innovation, passing, and ability to play with both feet, among the most amazing players in the football. "Neymar" had scored more than  hundred goals for five different national teams so Neymar is one of only three players to do that.." Neymar" rose to prominence  early  with Santos club team in his native Brazil, where he played the first professional match with the team at the seventeen age  . Neymar helped his club win back-to-back Paulista championships, the "Copa do Brasil","2011" Copa Libertadores Then latter was Santos' cube first since "1963". Two times Neymar named South American best Player of that Year,

 in "2011" , "2012", "Neymar" soon made the move to La Liga to join the Barcelona. With Barcelona's attacking "Luis Suarez", and "Lionel Messi". Neymar won the treble of , the "Copa del Rey", La Liga And the "UEFA Champions League" in the "2014"–"2015" season, and finished third in the "Ballon d'Or" for his performances in "2015". "Neymar "then secured the domestic- double in the "2015"–"2016"season. . 

Neymar moved to( PSG)

In "2017", Neymar moved to( PSG) in a record deal is the largest deal in the history of football, with a value more than 220 million $. In France, "Neymar" won three league titles, two "French Cups", and two French League Cups. which included a domestic hat-trick and he was awarded the Ligue first  Player of the Season award in his first season. "Neymar" helped Paris Saint-Germain achieve four domestic goals in the"2019–20" season, and led the club to their first Champions League final in history. With "73" goals in 118 appearances for Brazil since making his debut at  "18" years old, "Neymar" is the second-highest goal scorer in the history of his national team, behind only Pele. He was a key player in Brazil's achievement of the "2011"South American "U-20"Championship, where he finished as top scorer, and the "2013 "Confederations Cup, where Neymar won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player. His participation in the "2014 "World Cup and "2015"Copa América was cut short by an injury in the first and suspension in the second, before leading Brazil to its" first Olympic "gold medal in men's soccer at the "2016" Summer "Olympics.

After years , after relinquishing the armband, he participated In the "2018" World Cup, and after missing the "2019" Copa America due to injury, he helped Brazil reach the final in the 2021 tournament. . Off the field, Neymar is among the world's leading athletes. Sport Pro named him the world's most marketable athlete in "2012" and "2013", and ESPN cited him as the world's fourth most famous athlete in "2016". In "2017", Time magazine included him in its list of the "100 "most influential people in the world. By 2018", France Football ranked him as the third-highest-paid footballer in the world, in "2019", Forbes magazine ranked him as the third-highest-paid athlete in the world, and in "2020", Forbes magazine ranked him as the fourth-highest-paid athlete in the world His upbringing and life Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. was born in Mogi das Cruzes, Sao Paulo, to Brazilian parents, Neymar Santos Senior and Nadine da Silva. He inherited his name from his father who was a former soccer player and became an advisor to his son as Neymar's talent began to grow. Neymar comments on his father's role: “My father has been by my side since I was young. He takes care of things, my money and my family.” Growing up, Neymar combined his love of futsal with street football. Neymar said that futsal had a great influence on his upbringing, helping him to develop his technique, his speed of thinking and his ability to perform movements in tight spaces. In "2003", Neymar moved with his family to São Vicente, where he began playing with the youth team of Portuguesa Santista. Then later in "2003", they moved to Santos, where Neymar joined Santos FC. With the success of his youth career and extra income, the family 

bought their first property, a house next to Villa Belmiro, Santos' main stadium.

Neymar net worth 

The quality of their family life improved, as at the age of 15, Neymar was earning "10,000" riyals per month and at the age of "16", he was earning "125,000" riyals per month. At the age of "17", he signed his first full professional contract, was promoted to the Santos first team, and started signing his first sponsorship deals. his soccer career Neymar began playing football at an early age, and his beginnings were similar to the beginning of most of his peers in Brazil, by playing the ball in the streets, until he joined, at the age of seven - in "1999"  a local team in the city of Santos in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo called Portuguesa Santista, and he continued There, until he was spotted by Santos, who recruited him in 2003. Santos After joining the Santos club youth academy in "2003" and signing with the club at the age of eleven, he quickly drew attention to him with his great talent, which made him, at the age of fourteen, have the opportunity to try out with Real Madrid, one of the largest clubs in Europe, and the young player actually traveled at the time to Spain in March 2006 in order to train with the royal club's cubs, where he trained in the club's sports facilities for more than two weeks and had the opportunity to meet Real Madrid officials and stars, such as the phenomenon "Ronaldo", "Zinedine Zidane" and Roberto Carlos, and he also attended a match for the team against "Deportivo La Coruña" from the stands of the Santiago stadium." Bernabeu", and he won the admiration of the club officials who decided to sign With him, they offered him to complete his upbringing with the team's cubs, and an agreement was initially reached between the two parties in principle, but the player then preferred to return to his country, Brazil, without completing his experience with Real Madrid, where most sources spoke of a financial dispute that stopped without completing the agreement, due to the claim of his father.

 And the legal representative of the player at that time amounted to" 60,000" euros in order for his son to join the team, which the Real Madrid leaders refused at the time, amid talk of the club’s refusal to pay such an amount in a young man under the age of "14", the player and his father implicitly denied this story, as his father stated that what Preventing him from joining Real Madrid is that he did not want to play for them only during that period, and the player stated that he rejected the Real Madrid offer because he did not want to play for them. He is bought with money, in addition to the fact that the Santos club for which the player was playing showed a great desire to keep the player, and they had a good relationship, so that in the end he preferred to complete his youth period in his country with his companions in Santos, where he hesitated about his chances of success without problems outside his country at the time, And he was wondering if he could play away from his hometown and his colleagues at that early age, and despite the signing of the initial contract between the two parties and the club’s satisfaction with Neymar’s talent, his father said in a book they later published about the player’s career from the beginning that he chose not to sign A final contract with Real Madrid was because he realized after a few days while staying in Spain that his son was not yet ready to leave his country, as he mentioned that he did not seem well, and began to miss his family, school and companions, although at first he seemed happy and everything seemed fine  always according to the father. After returning to his country and club, Neymar continued to develop and draw attention until in 2009", at the age of seventeen, he had the opportunity to represent the first team of the Brazilian club" for the first time. 2009: The season of beginnings Neymar had celebrated his seventeenth birthday a month ago when he played his first official match with Santos, and that was on March "7, 2009", when he entered a substitute for his colleague Mauricio Molina at the 59th minute in the match in which his team defeated the Oeste team in the Paulista regional championship competitions. "2-1", and in the following week, specifically on March 15, he participated for the first time as a main player in a match against Mogi Mirim Club, also drawing the Paulista, and at that time he was able to score the first goal "in his professional career, in the match that his companions won "3-0.

 

Less than a month later, specifically on the eleventh of April, Neymar scored the decisive goal in the match in which Santos beat Palmeiras "2-1 "in the first leg of the semi-finals of the same competition, to contribute to the superiority of his team and thus qualify for the final in which they fought a team Corinthians, led by the apparent Brazilian legend Ronaldo, as the latter outperformed Neymar by scoring a double in the first leg that led his team to victory "3-1", then the two teams tied in the second leg "1-1", to crown Ronaldo's companions the championship with a total of" 4-2" in the home and away. On the seventh of November" 2009", Neymar, who had not reached the age of majority  "18" years  after that time, managed to score or double in his professional career, and that was against Nautico when he led his team to beat it" 3-1" for the Brazilian League matches, then followed it up with a brace. 

Again in the same tournament, two rounds later, when he led his team to beat Curitiba, "4-0", to "complete its first season in the Brazilian League in Ranked "21" on the list of top scorers by scoring "10 goals, from "32" participations," 9 "goals behind the competition's top scorers, while he participated in 48 matches in general in all competitions this season, and scored 14 league goals. "2010": The beginning of real prominence and winning the Paulista Beginning with the "2010" season (the Brazilian season takes place entirely in one year, unlike the European season, which begins in a year and ends in the next), Neymar began making his way to stardom in Santos despite his young age (only 18 years old), becoming the team's top scorer, star, and penalty kick taker. On April 15, 2010, he scored five goals for Santos in the "8–1" win over Guarani in the Copa do Brasil qualifying stage. After the 2010 Campeonato Paulista, in which Neymar scored "14" goals in "19" games, the club was crowned champion after a "5–5" victory (thanks to the away goals rule) over Santo André in the final. He was given the best player award in the competition. Neymar's performance with Santos led to his playing style being compared to other Brazilian players, such as Robinho, and even to Brazilian legend Pele. In 2010, Santos received an offer of 12 million pounds from West Ham United to join the player, but he was rejected, as the club insisted on paying the full amount of "28.4" million pounds as a condition for the player’s departure, although West Ham raised his offer to 16 million. pound after that.

 Later, they received an offer from another English club, Chelsea, where it was reported that they offered approximately "17" million pounds sterling to bring the player initially, which was soon increased to 20 million, but the Brazilian club rejected the offer in a statement. It is official, and although the Blues raised the offer to approach Santos’ financial requirements, Neymar chose to stay at the time in his country, in a move he later mentioned that Brazilian legend Pele encouraged him to do in a phone call, which made him announce his refusal to leave and declare: “I focus on Santos only.” And his agent, Wagner Ribeiro, indicated that Neymar's fate would inevitably be elsewhere, noting that "he wants to become the best player in the world, and the percentage of achieving this dream in Brazil is 0%.""Neymar is not for sale, but whoever wants to obtain his services must pay the price of the penalty clause. There are" 5" European teams chasing the player and they can break his contract." santos club president Luis Rabiro in "2010". Although he admitted one year later, in an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, that he was pleased with Chelsea's interest in him because he had "dreamed of playing in Europe", while also stating that at the time it was the right decision to stay in Brazil.

 

This season, Neymar scored his best goalscoring figures in all competitions ever, scoring 42 goals from 60" matches, including "17 "goals in the league championship, which finished second in the" tournament's top scorer rankings, although this season was witness to the outbreak of a disciplinary crisis that identified an important aspect. From the player’s career in his youth, where he caused a problem with his coach at the Santos club at the time, Dorriva Junior, caused by the latter choosing another player to take a penalty kick in one of the local league matches, which made the player insult his coach, and quarreled with three of his colleagues after that, which led to The player was fined and reprimanded by his team for his reckless behaviour. On November "30", "2010", Santos sold 5% of his future transfer fee to a Brazilian investment group, for the amount of 3,549,900 Brazilian reais (equivalent at that time to about "1.5" million euros). In December "2010", Neymar (who has not yet reached the age of eighteen) finished third in the "2010" South American Player of the Year award race, behind both Andres Dalessandro and Juan Sebastian Veron. 2011: Award winning season Neymar plays for Santos in the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup Final. Neymar opened the year with a successful international participation with the Brazilian youth team, where he was able, with his colleagues, to achieve the eleventh title for young samba dancers in the Copa America Youth Championship (under 20 years), where he was the tournament's top scorer with nine goals, five goals ahead of his closest opponents. Then he opened his season with Santos by participating in the Paulista Regional Championship, where he managed to score 4 goals in the competition, the last of which was the goal with which the team won the championship for the second time in a row in the final match in which it "faced Corinthians in May" 2011.

 In the Brazilian League, Neymar starred remarkably this season, and made his mark in several decisive matches On the 28th of July "2011", Neymar fought an exciting confrontation against Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho and his team Flamengo, drawing the twelfth week of the league, and despite Neymar scoring a very impressive goal in the 26th minute of the match (he later won the Puskas Award for him) he made his team advance by three goals, but The first half ended in a "3-3" draw, after Ronaldinho's teammates managed to score three goals in "16" minutes (Ronaldinho scored The first) they modified the result, and it was not limited Excitement in the first half continued in the second when Neymar scored a fourth goal for his team and a second goal for him personally, but Ronaldinho responded with a brace - completing the hat-trick (3 goals) - that led his team to victory 5-4. 

Then, on August 21, he contributed to Santos' victory over Bahia with two goals to one, as he scored the first goal in the match that took place in the eighteenth week of the league. But his biggest brilliance in the league championship this season was when he exploded in the face of Atletico Paranaense on October 29, 2011 in a match held for the thirty-second round, where he led his team to a "4-1" victory, scoring the four goals (super hat-trick). Then, the following week (33rd), he contributed to Santos' victory over Vasco da Gama on November 6, as he scored the first goal of a total of two clean goals that his teammates won over a fiercely competing team for the league title. Although his team, Santos, ranked tenth in the competition, a full "20" points behind the champion, Neymar managed, however, to win the best player award in the league, according to a vote of experts chosen by the Brazilian Federation to determine the best player in the tournament at the time. He also finished seventh in the league's top scorer race, after scoring 13 goals. Neymar also starred this year in the South American Champions League competition (Copa Libertadores), where he was able, thanks to his tremendous efforts, with his teammates, to win the continental title for the club, which was absent from its coffers for nearly half a century, specifically from the days of the legend Pele in the early sixties of the twentieth century. .

 Neymar shone remarkably in the decisive roles of the tournament, where he scored 6 goals in the competition, which made him third on the list of tournament scorers, with a single goal difference from the tournament’s top scorers, making his mark in the important roles, as he scored in the second leg of the quarter-final against the Ones Caldas team to lead His team won the aggregate of the two matches 2-1, and thus advanced to the semi-finals, in which he faced the Paraguayan club Cerro Porteno, and there he also shone remarkably, as he was the star of the first leg in which his team won with a clean goal, which he made after a wonderful individual effort, as he dodged several Two players, and he passed the ball to his teammate Edo Dracina, who deposited it in the net, and then starred again, by participating in two goals, and scoring the third in the match. Which ended in a positive draw 3-3, so that the team went up to face the Uruguayan team Peñarol in the final of the competition, and there Neymar starred in the return match, as he scored one of two goals that crowned Santos champion of the most important continental championship. Thanks to his performance, Neymar was named the best player in the tournament. Winning the Libertadores allowed Santos to participate in the 2011 Club World Cup, which was held in Japan in December, where he met Neymar's companions, the Japanese club Kashiwa Reysol, in the semi-finals, and Neymar was able to open the score for his team with a beautiful goal that paved the way. For their victory with a score of 3-1, and thus qualifying for the final match in which they faced European champion Barcelona, Spain, and there the eyes of the world turned to confront the Argentine star Lionel Messi; The best player in the world in the last two years, against the little Brazilian jewel Neymar, where Neymar has become the talk of the press and even the opponents' players, as Santos' most prominent face. Although Neymar lost the battle to Messi, who won 4-0 and his companions, this did not prevent him from ascending the world podiums after he topped them in continental terms, where he won the bronze medal as the third best player in the tournament, behind the Barcelona players who won the title Messi and Xavi. At the end of this year, Neymar was crowned the best player in South America, after he received 130 votes from the total number of votes, which made him break the record for the award in the number of votes historically, and thus completes his dominance of the individual titles available in the Latin continent this season, after being crowned with the award. The best player in the Brazilian League, and the best player in the Copa Libertadores, in addition to being ranked tenth in the FIFA Golden Ball ranking for the best players in the world in 2011, and choosing his goal against Flamengo in the Brazilian League to win the Puskas Award for the best goal of the year, presented by FIFA. 

"Neymar is a great player for sure, he will be like Kaká and Lionel Messi, no doubt about that." Brazilian soccer legend Pele in 2011 In this season, the controversy over the fate of the player did not stop, linking him to leaving Santos for a European club, as the Brazilian club president at the time, Luis Alvaro de Oliveira Ribeiro, spoke about 5 European offers that the club received in order to dispense with the player’s services, and stated that these offers came from English clubs Chelsea and Manchester City, in addition to the Russian club Anji Makhachkala, and the two poles of Spanish football; Real Madrid and Barcelona . The veteran Brazilian star, Roberto Carlos, was a mediator in order to persuade the player to choose Angie Club instead of Barcelona and Real Madrid, with whom the player was associated more than the rest. Offer to bring the player. But the media linked the player more to the poles of Spain during this period, so there was talk of advanced talks between the player and FC Barcelona, talks that may have reached their climax when the two parties were in Japan for the World Cup Club Championship, which they faced in his final match, to the extent that some newspapers talked about Neymar’s request. From Barca's coach at the time, Pep Guardiola to take him to Barca, but the negotiations may have been larger and more serious between the player and the Catalan club's rival, Real Madrid, where the media reported great progress in these negotiations, and even confirmation of the completion of the deal and the player's conduct of a medical examination paving the way for his transfer, which forced the player To speak and announce the denial of the news, as he made the president of Santos Ribeiro come out to the public to threaten to sue the Royal Club of the International Federation of the Game if he agreed with Neymar without referring to the club that owns his contract, which is considered a violation of the laws, but that whole controversy abated greatly when it was announced that he had reached Santos reached an agreement to renew the player's contract with the club until 2014, blocking the way In the face of the clubs wishing to include him, and he believed that the jewel of the team would remain with him, even if temporarily, and the player said that he preferred to stay with his mother team and renew for the sake of his child – whom he had given birth to months earlier – and his happiness, a renewal according to which the player’s salary reached about 615 thousand euros per month, to rank The 12th in the ranking of the highest paid soccer players at the time around the world. 2012: Best in South America With the beginning of this year, and on the day he was celebrating his 20th birthday – on February 5, 2012 – Neymar was able to score his 100th goal in his career as a professional soccer player (82 with Santos and 18 with the national team in its various categories), against a club. Palmeiras in the Campeonato Paulista Regional. Then, four days later, he scored a hat-trick that led his team to a 4-1 victory over Botafogo SP, then continued his brilliance in the subsequent period when he managed to score two goals, one of which was from 25 yards, and made two others to lead his team to crush Ponte Preta by a score. 6–1. On March 7, 2012, he scored a hat-trick in the 3-1 victory for his team in the Copa Libertadores. On March 29, he scored a new hat-trick against Guaratingita FC, in a 5–0 victory for his team. And in the match that was against São Paulo on April 29, 2012, He scored a hat-trick as the match ended 3–1. After that, he scored two goals in the first leg and the same in the second leg for the 2012 Campeonato Paulista Final against Guarani, which led the team to win the two matches, 7-2, and win the championship. For the third time in a row. He led the player to finish the championship top scorer with 20 goals (including three hat-tricks). 2013: Santos' farewell season Neymar, accompanied by his team, Santos, started the 2013 Paulista Regional Championship (professional league at the level of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo) by scoring two goals in the first match, which ended with his team's 3-1 victory over Sao Bernardo on January 19, 2013. Four days later, he contributed to his team's victory At the expense of Botafogo, by scoring one of the three goals that led the team to win the match, 3-0. Then, on the third of February, he led them to victory at the expense of rivals Sao Paulo, 3-1, as he managed to record a goal in that match and assisted two goals.. Barcelona "There are 5 clubs that want to fulfill the penalty clause for terminating Neymar's contract, but we will leave the first and last decision in the hands of the player."Former Santos club president Luis de Oliveira on the Neymar transfer in 2013. On May 24, 2013, Santos announced that the team had received two offers to give up Neymar, and the next day the player himself announced that he would sign with Barcelona on May 27, to join the team after playing in the 2013 Confederations Cup with his country. The Catalan club announced the joining deal in the following days, with a contract that extends for five years (until the summer of 2018), and the player announced his happiness to join the team and play with the stars of the team (such as Xavi, Iniesta and Messi). 2013–14: Adaptation in Spain Neymar with FC Barcelona in a match against Almería in March 2014 Neymar did not start the season with Barcelona directly, as he underwent a tonsillectomy at the beginning of July, and he was also being treated for symptoms of anemia (anemia), which led to losing several kilograms of his weight, and the club doctor indicated during routine medical examinations that the player's weight is less. It is appropriate, but the player soon confirmed later that he was fine, and he actually participated in the club's training for the first time in late July, and on the thirtieth of the month he played his first match in the Barca shirt, and it was when he played as a substitute in an unofficial match against Lechia Gdańsk in the match that ended With a positive draw 2-2. He scored his first goal for the club in a 7–1 win against Thailand Legends on 7 August . The first official match with Barcelona was on August 18, 2013, in the opening round of the 2013-14 La Liga season, where he entered the 63rd minute as a substitute for Chilean Alexis Sanchez in the match in which they crushed guest Levante 7-0, and after three days he managed to sign the first official goal He wore the Catalan club's shirt in the first leg of the 2013 Spanish Super Cup against Atletico Madrid, where he participated as a substitute for Pedro, and managed to score after only seven minutes, in the match that ended in a positive draw 1-1, and the player's performance was praised in the match, as he made up for the absence of a star. The team, Lionel Messi, who was injured between the two halves of the match, and the team was later able to win the title due to the away goals rule after the end of the second leg with a goalless draw, to win its first title with the Catalan club. On 18 September, he made his UEFA Champions League debut, providing an assist for Gerard Pique as Barcelona beat Ajax 4–0 in the opening match of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League. Six days later, he was able to score his first goal at the Camp Nou, and his first goal in the Spanish League as well, in the match that Barcelona won 4-1 over Real Sociedad. On October 26, Neymar was on a date with his first participation in El Clasico, against eternal rivals Real Madrid, and the lights were shining on his competition with the newcomer to the royal club, also Welshman Gareth Bale, as their first confrontation caught the eye from the most famous confrontation in El Clasico in those years, which It brought together the Argentine Lionel Messi (from Barcelona) and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (from Real Madrid), and Neymar excelled in the meeting and caught the eye of everyone, as he managed to score the opening goal in the match, and made the second goal for his colleague Alexis Sanchez, to lead his team to victory in the El Clasico with a score of 2. -1 at Camp Nou, On December 11, 2013, he cut his goals in the most prestigious European championship; UEFA Champions League, when he scored a hat-trick that led his team to crush the Scottish club Celtic 6-1, to lead the Catalan team to qualify as top of its group and cut the pass to the knockout stages of the competition. He scored consecutive hat-tricks (not interrupted by a goal from anyone else) in just 14 minutes (44', 48' and 58'), to sign one of the fastest hat-tricks in the history of the competition. Neymar finished his first season in the Blaugrana shirt by scoring 15 goals (9 of them in Al-Dari), within 41 matches he played with the team, and he achieved a single title, the local super at the beginning of the season. 2014–15: Treble and individual success Neymar plays for Barcelona against Villarreal in the Europa League, February 1, 2015. Neymar opened the scoring for his team in the match that Barcelona won 3–2 On 13 September 2014, after coming on as a substitute, he scored his first two goals of the 2014–15 season, helping Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 2–0. On 27 September, he scored a hat-trick against Granada in a 6–0 victory for his team, and scored in his next three matches in La Liga, including the opening goal in El Clásico, which they lost 1–3 to Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu. Neymar finished the season with 39 goals in all competitions and 10 in the Champions League, making him joint top scorer in the Champions League with Cristiano Ronaldo and teammate Lionel Messi. He was the first player to win this title in the era of Ronaldo and Messi since Kaka's citizenship in the 2006-07 season. And the season ended the Barcelona attack trio Messi, Suarez and Neymar, known as "MSN", with 122 goals, to become the most trio in the history of Spanish football to achieve this number.. 2015–16: Domestic double Due to the presence of parotitis, Neymar missed the European Super Cup 2015 and the Spanish Super Cup 2015. On October 17, he scored a Super Hat-trick (4 goals) in the match that Barcelona won 5-2 over Rayo Vallecano in the Spanish League, bringing his total to eight goals. goals for this season. On November 21, he scored a goal and provided a backheel assist for Andres Iniesta in El Clásico, which Barcelona won 4–0 over Real Madrid. 2016–17: Final season On August 13, 2016, he scored a goal from a free kick and passed four assists in Barcelona's first match in the Champions League, which he met with Celtic at Camp Nou, which ended 7-0. On March 8, Neymar played a heroic role in Barcelona's return against Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of the final price of the Champions League (6-1), as he caused the penalty kick from which Messi scored the third goal in the 50th minute, then scored the fourth goal through A direct free kick in the 88th minute, then scored the fifth goal from a penalty kick in the 91st minute, and then set up the winning goal with an assist for Sergi Roberto in the 95th minute. He finished the season by scoring 20 goals and winning the King's Cup with Barcelona. Paris Saint-Germain Neymar plays with the ball during his presentation to the media after his move to Paris Saint-Germain in August 2017. 

Neymar with Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Chairman and CEO of Paris Saint-Germain. 2017-18 season: first season and treble Neymar playing for Paris Saint-Germain against Lille in February 2018 2018-19 season: injury and a league title 2019–20 season: suspended season and European final It won its third league title after Paris Saint-Germain was awarded the title as the season ended early due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. On July 24, 2020, in Paris Saint-Germain's first official match after the pandemic, Neymar scored his team's only goal in a 1–0 win over Saint-Étienne in the French Cup final, to win his second French Cup title with the club. On 31 July, Paris Saint-Germain won the 2020 French League Cup Final 6–5 in a penalty shootout over Lyon, after a 0–0 draw in extra time saw them complete the domestic treble, with Neymar scoring one of the penalties. . In the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League against Atalanta on 12 August, he assisted the equalizer in injury time in a 2–1 win. 

In the semi-final against RB Leipzig, he assisted two goals in a 3–0 win, which saw PSG reach the Champions League final for the first time in their history; Paris Saint-Germain lost in the final 1–0 to Bayern Munich on 23 August. 2021–22: Messi arrives On August 10, 2021, Neymar's former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi signed with Paris Saint-Germain. On 29 August, Neymar made his first appearance of the season, starting in a 2–0 win over Reims. Messi replaced Neymar in the 66th minute of the match, making his debut with the French club his international career Neymar celebrates his goal for Brazil against Scotland, on 27 March 2011, with Andre Santos and Ramirez. After Neymar's performance in the 2009 Under-17 World Cup, in which he scored a goal in the opening match against Japan, and his brilliance with Santos at the club level, voices came calling for Neymar's name to be included in the list of the first Brazilian national team, which was preparing to participate in the 2010 World Cup that was held in South Africa, but the coach of the samba dancers at the time, Dunga, refused to summon him. But not Manu Menezes coming The new coach of the Brazil national team, he summoned Neymar to the list of the team preparing for a friendly match against the US national team on July 26, 2010, to be his first international match with the first team. He managed to score his first goal with the national team when he headed a ball in the twenty-eighth minute, after a cross from Andre Santos, so the match ended with Brazil winning 2-0. South American Youth Championship and Copa America 2011 Neymar was the top scorer in the South American Youth Championship under 20 years old in 2011 with nine goals, including two in the final match, in the match that Brazil won 6-0 over Uruguay. 2012 Summer Olympics and first hat-trick Neymar prepares to take a free kick against Belarus at Old Trafford during the 2012 Summer Olympics. On May 11, 2012, Neymar was selected to the Brazil squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics. In the preparation matches for the tournament on July 20, 2012, against host nation Great Britain at Riverside Stadium, he was involved in both goals in a 2–0 victory. Continents Cup 2013 Neymar playing against Spain's Gerard Pique in the 2013 Confederations Cup Final. Neymar was selected as part of Luiz Felipe Scolari's Brazil squad for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup on home soil. As for the tournament, he wore the famous number 10 shirt, having previously worn 11 He scored the first goal of the tournament in a 3–0 win over Japan at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium on 15 June. In the second match, he scored a goal after nine minutes, and the match ended with a 2–0 victory for Brazil over Mexico. He scored in the third consecutive match, with a powerful free kick from the edge of the penalty area, as Brazil beat Italy 4–2, and was awarded Man of the Match for the third consecutive match. On June 30, he participated in Fred's first goal, then scored the second goal, and the match ended with Brazil's 3-0 victory over Spain. He won the Golden Ball award as the best player in the tournament. world Cup 2014 Neymar prepares to take a free kick during Brazil's opening match of the 2014 World Cup against Croatia. On June 2, 2014, Neymar was called up to the Brazil national team in the 2014 World Cup. He went into the tournament, where he was the star of the national team, and he is the man expected to lead Brazil to their sixth World Cup title on home soil. A week before the team's opening match, he scored a goal and assisted two goals in a 4–0 friendly win over Panama. 2016 Summer Olympics Neymar prepares to take the winning penalty kick for Brazil against Germany in the Olympic final. The Brazilian Confederation had wanted Neymar to play in the Copa América Centenario and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro during the summer of 2016, but after a request from FC Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, he took a break from the first tournament. In late June 2016, he was at one time one of three players out of 23 to be included in Brazil's national team for the 2016 Summer Olympics on home soil, and was captain of the team. World Cup 2018 Neymar celebrates scoring a goal against Costa Rica in the 2018 World Cup In May 2018, he was included in the squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. On June 3, 2018, Neymar returned to international action after a three-month absence due to a foot injury, and scored a goal in the friendly match that Brazil beat Croatia 2–0. 

The following week, he became Brazil's third-highest scorer in history alongside Romário when he scored his 55th international goal in a 3–0 friendly win over Austria. outside football his personal life Neymar expresses his Christian faith after winning the gold medal with Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympics Neymar has a son, Davi Luca, born on August 13, 2011, with his ex-girlfriend Carolina Dantas. He has a very close relationship with his sister, Rafaela Pecran, and cemented this platonic affinity by having her face tattooed on his arm, while Pecrane tattooed her brother's eyes on her arm. Neymar is a Christian, and follows the Pentecostal movement. Neymar spoke about his faith, saying: "Life has meaning only when our ultimate goal is to serve Christ." In addition, he sometimes wore a headband with "100% Jesus" written on it. 

In addition to his native Portuguese, Neymar speaks Spanish. In July 2019, the police announced that the investigation into Neymar's rape had been canceled due to lack of evidence. On 2 September 2020, it was reported that Neymar, along with his Paris Saint-Germain teammates Ángel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes, had tested positive for the coronavirus. French sports newspaper L'Equipe said the three players had gone on vacation to a mainland island.

 As a result, they were isolated for one week, and it was decided that the rest of the players and staff would undergo a coronavirus test in the same week. Neymar da Silva Santos Junior "Neymar da Silva Santos Jr." NJ (@neymarjr Neymar da Silva How tall is Neymar? What is Neymar's date of birth? What is Neymar's Instagram name? Who is Neymar text in English?