PSG presents its new jewel, bought for the record sum of 222 million euros from Barcelona, on August 14, 2017 in Guingamp. With a goal and an assist, Neymar begins to shine.
“I feel at home. All my teammates are not Brazilian but they make me feel comfortable, I have the impression that I have been here for a long time now”ensures the new attraction of the French championship.
The “penaltigate”, which faced the Uruguayan edinson cavani At the beginning of the season, to find out which of the two would take the maximum penalties is the first moment of tension in his career in Paris.
But it is nothing compared to what happened on February 25, 2018, during a French Cup match against Marseille: “Ney” injured his right foot, a fissure of the fifth metatarsal. That was the prelude to a failed season, eliminated in the Champions League round of 16 against Real Madrid, and the start of a long series of injuries for the Brazilian attacker.
On January 23, 2019, neymar he relives his injury: a series of clashes with Moataz Zemzemi, a Strasbourg player in a French Cup match, awakens his pain in his right foot.
This ends with another three months of absence and again three months of hell for his team, humiliated again in the Champions League round of 16 against Manchester United (2-0, 1-3).
Returning to Paris after being seen at the carnival in Salvador and Rio, he is present in the stands during that elimination on March 6.
He loses control and insults the referees on social networks: “It’s a shame! They put four guys who don’t know anything about football to watch in slow motion (…) Let them go to hell.”
Back on the pitch at the end of April, he expressed his rage by hitting a spectator who was bothering him after the defeat in the French Cup final against Rennes.
“That can not be done”criticized his coach Thomas Tuchel the day after that gesture. “Coward”, “rebellious adolescent”: the Brazilian press does not forgive him for this action either.
For each of his two actions, he will suffer a three-game ban, which in the case of the Champions League was reduced to two after appeal.
neymar he feels better and better in Paris. His 2019-2020 season is his best, despite the premature conclusion of the French championship due to the covid-19 pandemic.
With psg wins all four national trophies, before the “Final 8” of the Champions League. In Lisbon, free of physical problems and with a big smile on his lips, he manages to lead his team to the first Champions League final in its history.
His complicity with kylian mbappe It’s obvious but neither he nor the Frenchman scored in Portugal. In the final, Bayern Munich made them pay for their lack of success and neymar left the lawn on the verge of tears.
He got his revenge on Bayern Munich less than a year later, in the quarterfinals. In the first leg in Germany, under the snow, he managed two assists (3-2 victory).
It is in the second leg, on April 13 at the Parque de los Príncipes, where he will shine more despite the defeat (1-0). Against Manuel Neuer, he smashed three balls into the posts, but his influence was enormous.
In the semifinals against Manchester City, the Brazilian disappoints. Four days before the return, lost 2-0, he renews his contract until 2025 with PSG.
Author of a heel assist for mbappe during the first leg against Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League (PSG 1-0 win), neymar He assists the Frenchman again on the return.
But, like his team, ‘Ney’ collapsed during the second part, and one of his turnovers offered Benzema one of his three goals, in a new fiasco of psg in Champions League. The Spanish media even report a fight between the Brazilian and his goalkeeper Donnarumma, which Neymar denies on his social media.
After an incredible start to the season with PSG, Neymar the elimination of Brazil in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup fits. His career is interrupted by a new ankle injury in March. Low for the rest of the season, he becomes the target of the Parisian ultras, in conflict with the management over the future of the club.
“Neymar, go now!”, sing several dozen fans dressed in black, gathered in front of the player’s home in Bougival, in the Paris region. Three months later, the Brazilian heads to Saudi Arabia.
Source: Ambito
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