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| Full name | Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 February 1992[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Attacking midfielder, winger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Al Hilal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2003 | Portuguesa Santista | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2009 | Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2013 | Santos | 177 | (107) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2017 | Barcelona | 123 | (68) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2023 | Paris Saint-Germain | 112 | (82) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Al Hilal | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Brazil U17 | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Brazil U20 | 7 | (9) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Brazil U23 | 14 | (8) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010– | Brazil | 128 | (79) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 September 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:10, 18 October 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (born 5 February 1992), also known as Neymar Júnior, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a attacking midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the Brazil national team. Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he is renowned for his flamboyant style of play, passing abilities, and two-footedness.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Neymar has scored at least 100 goals for three different clubs, being one of a few players to do so,[9] and is the highest-scoring Brazilian player in Champions League history.[10]
Neymar made his professional debut with Santos in 2009, and in 2011, he helped them win their first Copa Libertadores in nearly 50 years.[11] In 2013, he joined Barcelona and became part of an attacking trio with Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, dubbed MSN. Winning the continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League in the trio's first season, Neymar was the joint-top scorer of the Champions League campaign and top scorer in the Copa del Rey. Neymar joined Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in 2017 in a transfer costing €222 million, making him the most expensive player ever.[note 1][14] There, he won Ligue 1 Player of the Year, won five Ligue 1 titles, and was integral to PSG being runners-up in the 2019-20 Champions League. He also ranks as PSG's fourth-highest all-time top goalscorer, despite reoccurring injuries consistently disrupting his playing time. In 2023, he became the most expensive signing in Saudi Pro League history, costing €90 million, as he signed for Al Hilal.
Debuting for Brazil aged 18, Neymar is the nation's all-time top goalscorer, with 79 goals in 128 matches. He won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, winning the Golden Ball. In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, he was named in the Dream Team. He captained Brazil to their first Olympic gold medal in men's football at the 2016 Summer Olympics, having already achieving a silver medal at the 2012 edition. Helping Brazil to a runner-up finish at the 2021 Copa América, he was jointly awarded Best Player. In the 2022 World Cup, he became the third Brazilian player to score in three World Cups, after Pelé and Ronaldo. Neymar has won a record six Samba Gold awards.
Neymar has been named in the FIFA FIFPro World11 and the UEFA Team of the Year twice and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season three times. He finished third for the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2015 and 2017 and won the FIFA Puskás Award in 2011. SportsPro named Neymar 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 included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[15] France Football ranked Neymar the world's third-highest-paid footballer of 2018. Forbes ranked him the world's third-highest-paid athlete of 2019,[16] dropping to fourth in 2020.[17]
- ^ a b c "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™: List of Players: Brazil" (PDF). FIFA. 29 November 2022. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Player Profile – Neymar Jr". Sportycious. Archived from the original on 21 June 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ Cox, Michael. "Neymar, record breaker: one of football's true greats". The Athletic. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ "Brazil boss on Neymar: One of greatest in history". ESPN.com. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ Pettigrove, Jason. "Why Neymar Is the 3rd-Best Player in the World on Current Form". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ Ruthu (22 March 2024). "Gerard Pique Shakes Up the Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo GOAT Debate With An Unexpected Neymar Over CR7 Twist". EssentiallySports. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ Stewart, Ben (7 April 2023). "Comparing Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar records after 700 games". Planet Football. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ "Neymar is second best player in world behind Lionel Messi and ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, claims ex-Barca president". The US Sun. 29 May 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ "Neymar emulates Ronaldo & Romario after bringing up 100 goals for PSG". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "Neymar, Roberto Firmino, Thiago Silva: Who are Brazil's top UEFA Champions League performers?". UEFA.com. 20 December 2022. Archived from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ "Neymar Jr, Santos years: The making of a future great". 19 June 2023. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ "FC Barcelona communiqué on Neymar Jr" (Press release). FC Barcelona. 3 August 2017. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ "Neymar: Paris St-Germain sign Barcelona forward for world record 222m euros". BBC. 3 August 2017. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ "Why Neymar is different". The Economist. 9 August 2017. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "The World's Highest-Paid Athletes 2020 - Forbes". Forbes. 21 May 2020. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
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