Neymar

Neymar, in full Neymar da Silva Santos Jr., was born on February 5th, 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. He is a Brazilian footballplayerwhowasoneofthemost prolific scorers in his country’s storied football history. Neymar, like many others in Brazil off as a street footballer but is father, who used to be a professional footballer, helped him in taking the game seriously so that he could become a professional. Neymar joined the youth ranks at FC Santos when he was only eleven years old and in fact he was accepted into the youth programme at the Spanish club Real Madrid but he decided to stay back in Brazil after he was offered a higher pay. Throughout his time at Santos, Neymar scored one spectacular goal after another and his skills became the talk of the football world. In 2013, he signed for Barcelona and immediately made an impact before finally winning the treble with the Catalan club in 2015. During his brief career, Neymar has also become the attacking centre point of the Brazilian national team and helped them reach the semi-final of the World Cup in 2014 that was held in Brazil. Neymar is without doubt one of the leadingfootballersintheworldandisall set to become one on the biggest of his generation.

Lan Bricelj