It’s been ten years since he debuted with Brazil.
As for his career at the top of the game, he is closer to the end than to the beginning.
And yet he still looks like an eternal teenager. But that’s about to change. In fact, opportunity strikes.
Neymar enters the condensed form of the Champions League that is noticeable as a child. He has a chance to come out as a man.
The kind of challenge proposed over the coming weeks is the very explanation of why he joined Paris Saint Germain.
Whatever the monetary incentives to move to Paris, there is one detail of showing off the aristocracy in your choice.
He had accomplished wonderful things in Barcelona. But, of course and undeniably, it’s Lionel Messi’s team. Neymar sought to show off his own side.
Now you have to. Kylian Mbappé has an ankle and doubts the quarter-final injury against Atalanta.
Even if he plays, in fact he probably wouldn’t be in the most sensible way. Angel Di Maria is suspended.
The responsibility lies with the Brazilian’s slender. He faces an attack opposition, giving him room for acceleration. It’s all made for him.
If the occasions stick to Neymar’s stage, then many will make him famous.
It’s hard. Despite all his excesses and tantrums, as a player, there is no doubt that he has more sin than sin.
He is also incredibly popular with many of his teammates. Obviously, there’s more to him than the petulant, spoiled figure he turns out to be.
And it’s his fault that he lived up to all the expectations that have skyrocketed around him for nearly a decade and a half.
He was notoriously injured in Brazil’s disastrous 2014 World Cup campaign.
And in Russia 2018, despite all the ridiculous dives, its point of functionality is higher than you would expect for a player returning from injury.
And an injury ruined his time with Paris Saint Germain. But that component of the threat to settle there.
The monetary influence of the PSG that national superiority is taken for granted. The championship and cup doubles are discarded as planned. The dream is the Champions League.
Obviously, Neymar’s performances with Paris were to be judged massively by what he produced in the knockout stages of elite European competition.
And so far, by injury, he has been excluded from the maximum of action his last two seasons with the club.
It’s almost as if Neymar’s time with Paris Saint Germain starts on Wednesday. The guy who crossed the Atlantic full of dreams will now have to defeat Atalanta to realize them.
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