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NAME : HENDRA DWI FIRMANSYAH

CLASS : VII E / 12

Neymar da Silva Santos Jnior born 5 February 1992, commonly known as

Neymar or Neymar Jr. , is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club FC

Barcelona and is the captain for the Brazil national team. He plays as a forward or winger.

Neymar arrived to Santos back in 2003, to start playing for the clubs youth

categories. He started becoming popular very early and way before turning a professional

player. When he turned 14, he traveled to Madrid in Spain in order to go through some trials

at the Merengues and according to the reports he was immediately accepted. However,

Santos FC managed to hold on to their crown jewelry because the Brazilian club president at

the time, Marcelo Teixeira , offered 1 million euros to Neymar s father on the condition that

the prodigious player stayed at the club until he turned professional.

Neymar had his debut in Santos shortly after he turned 17 (March 7, 2009), in a away

match against Itpolis . His first goal as professional player arrived one week later on March

15 (2009), in a 3-0 win against Mogi Mirim . During his first years in the first team, Neymar shared most of the media focus with his good friend and teammate until 2012, Paulo

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Henrique Ganso , who is now playing for So Paulo . Neymar didnt get any silverware

during his first year as a professional footballer, since Santos finished 2nd in the

Campeonato Paulista and 12nd in the Campeonato Brasileiro .

In 2010, Santos won the Campeonato Paulista for the first time since Neymar had

joined the squad and together with Robinho , Paulo Henrique Ganso and Andr , the team was

often called as Meninos da Vila , in a clear reference to the fact that several key players had

been developed in the clubs youth ranks. Later that year, Neymar won his second career title

and this time it was the Copa do Brasil trophy (the Brazilian Cup ). The Brazilian forward

became the competitions top goalscorer, with 11 goals. His performances were already

impressing a lot of scouts from European big clubs by then and during the Old Continents

summer transfer season in August, Chelsea has allegedly made a move on Neymar that

would end up failing miserably after Pel s intervention. The all -time legend talked with the

Brazilian youngster and convinced him that the best decision at that time was to stay put in

Santos . The Brazilian club finished 8th in the Campeonato Brasileiro at the end of that

year.

The 2011 year kicked off with all attention turned on to Neymar Jr . He was already

being regarded as the best footballer playing in Brazil and there was a big amount of

expectation to see how he would keep improving in the months and years ahead. Santos won

the Campeonato Paulista for the second year in a row, the clubs 19th state title. However,

the biggest accomplishment took place in the Copa dos Libertadores , with Santos beating

Pearol in the final and Neymar scoring one of the winning goals, during the second leg 2-1

win. The Brazilian club were chasing that trophy for 48 years Neymar scored the best goal

of his short career that year, in a game against Ronaldinho and Atletico Paranaense . That

goal allowed him to win the FIFA Ferenc Pusks award for the best goal of 2011, in a

ceremony that was held a few months later in Switzerland , in January of 2012. Before that

and deep in December 2011, Santos faced Barcelona in the FIFA Club World Cup and

basically got crushed by the Spanish giants, with an impressive 4-0 final result. Neymar

recognized that Barcelona had a far superior team and that his side had been taught how to

play football that day. That was probably the first big step Neymar has made to open the

doors towards signing for Barcelona sooner or later.

On August 24 of 2011, Neymar became a father for the first time in his life, at the ageof 19. The mother was 17 and despite asking for her anonymity on a first stage, her identity

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was later revealed as being Carolina Dantas . Neymar son was a boy and was called Davi

Lucca , but the Brazilian players relationship with Carolina was far from perfect, leaving few

alternatives than paying the mother a monthly child support pension of 30.000 reais (roughly

13.000 US dollars). With the Brazilian National Team , Neymar had his first taste of

participating in an important tournament with the Copa America, in July of 2011. Things

didnt go as the Brazilian people certainly expected and the Canarinha got knocked out in

the competitions quarter -finals, in the penalty-shout decision against Paraguay .

In 2012 Neymar led Santos to some more success in the Campeonato Paulista , for

the third straight time. On May of that year, Neymar became Santos highest goalscorer since

the Pel era, after scoring another 2 goals against Bolivar, in the Copa dos Libertadores

and reaching his 106th goal for the club. Santos wouldnt get lucky in that competiton though

and got thrown out by Corinthians , in a two-leg semi-finals. The second trophy Neymar

won in 2012 was the Recopa Sul-Americana , after beating Universidad de Chile in the

final.

\As for 2013, we can safely say that it definitely allowed Neymar to also confirm his

star player status in the Brazilian National Team . The Confederations Cup was awaited with

high expectation and Neymar didnt defraud anyone, especially in the final against Spain .

Brazil beat the current European and World champions and Neymar performed at his very

best level. However, Neymar s summer of 2013 will always be remembered for the time

when he finally signed for Barcelona and got to initiate his journey in Europe . The Spanish

club paid 50 million euros for the Brazilian star, for a 5-year deal that will allow Neymar to

earn 7 million euros per year, plus a 1 million euros bonus if he ends up winning the FIFA

Balon dOr , an award which his current teammate Lionel Messi has won for the past 4

straight years and with that always leaving Cristiano Ronaldo behind him. Earlier in the

year, Neymar has also announced that he was on a relationship with a new girlfriend, the

Brazilian actress from Globo , Bruna Marquezine .