BIOGRAPHY AND CAREER
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior born 5 February 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, commonly known as Neymar, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a forward for Brazilian club Santos and the Brazilian national football team.
After connecting the Santos in 2003, Neymar finally made his debut elderly 17 contrary to Oeste on 7 March 2009 in a 2–1 win. Neymar's next look was contrary to Mogi Mirim a week subsequent, throughout which he tallied his first aim for Santos. On 11 April 2009, in the 2009 Campeonato Paulista semi-final first leg contrary to Palmeiras, Neymar tallied the resolute aim in a 2–1 win at Estádio Vila Belmiro. In the last although Santos endured a 4–2 aggregate decrease to Corinthians.
Neymar's performances for Santos have drawn assessments to Brazilian idols for example Robinho and Pelé. He has captivated concern from some European associations for example Manchester United, Internazionale, Real Madrid, and Chelsea, with Real Madrid even going so far as to assertion that they had marked a pre-contract affirmation with Neymar's agency, Renato Rodrigues, which Santos passionately denied. Following this, Santos put an inquiring cost of €30 million on the player's head, and joined Neymar down to a new agreement lasting until December 2014. Neymar himself said he did not believe it was time to depart Santos, and that he was only concentrated on the club. However Neymar’s agency asserted that the Santos striker does not desire to stay in his dwelling homeland of Brazil.
On 15 April 2010, Neymar tallied five goals for Santos in an 8–1 routing of Guarani in the around of 16 of the Brazilian Cup. Following the 2010 Campeonato Paulista in which Neymar tallied 14 goals in 19 sport, the association were crested champions after a 5–5 aggregate win over Santo André in the finals.Neymar was subsequently granted the accolade for the best contestant in the competition.
Neymar's performances for Santos have drawn assessments to Brazilian idols for example Robinho and Pelé. He has captivated concern from some European associations for example Manchester United, Internazionale, Real Madrid, and Chelsea, with Real Madrid even going so far as to assertion that they had marked a pre-contract affirmation with Neymar's agency, Renato Rodrigues, which Santos passionately denied. Following this, Santos put an inquiring cost of €30 million on the player's head, and joined Neymar down to a new agreement lasting until December 2014. Neymar himself said he did not believe it was time to depart Santos, and that he was only concentrated on the club. However Neymar’s agency asserted that the Santos striker does not desire to stay in his dwelling homeland of Brazil.
On 15 April 2010, Neymar tallied five goals for Santos in an 8–1 routing of Guarani in the around of 16 of the Brazilian Cup. Following the 2010 Campeonato Paulista in which Neymar tallied 14 goals in 19 sport, the association were crested champions after a 5–5 aggregate win over Santo André in the finals.Neymar was subsequently granted the accolade for the best contestant in the competition.
Following Neymar's performances for Brazil's U-17 team at the 2009 U-17 World Cup in which he scored a goal in the opening match against Japan former Brazilian football players Pelé and Romário reportedly urged coach Dunga to take Neymar to the 2010 World Cup.Although the widespread opinion that Neymar deserved a place in Dunga's squad went as far as a 14,000 signature petition,and despite the huge pressure on Dunga to pick Neymar, he was omitted from both the squad of 23, and the stand-by list.Although Dunga described Neymar as "extremely talented", he claimed that he had not been tested sufficiently on the international level to earn a World Cup spot and he had failed to impress enough while on international duty.
On 10 August 2010, Neymar was selected in the squad for the Brazil team by new head coach Mano Menezes for a friendly match against the USA on 10 August 2010. He started the game and wore the number 11 jersey. He scored on his debut after 28 minutes, a header coming from an André Santos cross in a 2–0 win for Brazil. On 27 March 2011, in only his third appearance for Brazil he also scored twice in a 2–0 win against Scotland at the Emirates Stadium in London, England. During the match against Scotland a fan threw a banana at Neymar in an act of racism after a penalty was taken. The penalty resulted in his second goal of the game.
NEYMAR PROFILE
Full name : Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
Date of birth : 6 February 1992
Place of birth : Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil
Height : 1.74 m
Playing position : Forward / Winger
Club Information
Current club : Santos
Number : 11
Youth career : 2003–2009 Santos
Senior career : 2009– Santos
National team:
2009-2010 Brazil U-17
2010– Brazil
