Biography of Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior

(1992/02/05 - Unknown)

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
Brazilian footballer

He was born on 5 February 1992 in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo (Brazil).
Son of Nadine and Neymar Santos da Silva. It inherited the name of his father, a former footballer who became his Adviser from the start. With the success of his career, the family bought their first property, a house next to the Vila Belmiro.
He combined his love for football with street football and from very small room called the attention of great football teams. His idol is the also footballer Robinho. In 2003, he moved with his family to São Vicente, where he began playing for the youth team of Portuguesa Santista. With only eleven years old, he was signed by the Saints, one of the most important Brazilian teams. Known for his speed and ability to Dodge. Quickly began to Excel in the lower categories, so that Real Madrid was interested in it in 2005, but at the end they did not agree.
With only 17 years old he debuted professionally on March 7, 2009, a week later scored his first goal for the Saints against Mogi Mirim. A month later, on 11 April, Neymar scored the decisive goal in the victory by 2-1 to Palmeiras in the semifinals of ida 2009 Campeonato Paulista. In his first season, Neymar accumulated 14 goals in 48 matches.
It was with the selection of Brazil in 2009 u 17 world football. After the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, they called him to play for the first time with the senior team. He made his debut playing against the United States, and scored a goal. He had a great performance in South American U20 of Peru, held at the beginning of 2011, being top scorer after mark so many 9. Brazil won the Championship and qualified to participate in the Olympic Games of London 2012. In the first friendly of Brazil on July 20, 2012, against the host nation Britain at the Riverside Stadium, he participated in the two-goal victory by 2-0. On July 26, 2012, he scored his first goal of the 2012 Olympic Games in the first game of Brazil against Egypt, which gave the victory by 3-2 to Brazil. In the following match against Belarus, colo a free kick secured his place for the quarter-finals with a victory for 3-1. On August 5, 2012, against Honduras, he scored from a penalty kick, his third goal of the tournament and assisted on the second goal by Leandro Damião, won 3-2 by reaching the semi-finals at the end of the tournament. Neymar scored his first hat-trick international absolute the September 10, 2012, in the victory 8 - 0 over China in the stadium José do Rego Maciel in Recife. On 19 September, scored a goal against Argentina to a 2-1 won the party of roundtrip from the Superclásico of the Americas 2012 held at Serra Dourada Stadium in Goiania, Brazil.
Real Madrid expressed interest in signing to Neymar and looked as they had come to an agreement since the white club reported that the player would come to Madrid in the month of December 2011. Real Madrid would pay their signing up to 56 million euros. But Neymar signed by Santos until 2014 according to the contract signed on 9 November 2011 with the club, paulista, which will remain at least until the next World Cup in the club instead of seeing increased revenues to a level equivalent to that would receive in the Real Madrid, Barcelona or another club great.
Nominated for the FIFA Ballon in 2011 and 2012.
"The FC Barcelona has reached a tentative agreement with Neymar and Santos for the incorporation of the player the next 5 Seasons". This message via Twitter, at 3.15 in the morning Spanish time of May 26, 2013, the Barcelona announced the signing until 2018 of the Brazilian striker. In the match of the first day of League 2013/14, he made his debut in official match against Levante you On August 21, he scored his first official goal with Barcelona in the first match of the Supercopa of Spain's soccer 2013 against Atletico Madrid. His League debut was on March 24, 2013, against Real Sociedad. On September 18, he made his debut in the UEFA Champions League, in which Barça defeated AFC Ajax 4-0. On 24 September, Neymar scored his first goal in the League against Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou. October 26, made his first appearance in the classic, scoring the first goal and assisting the winning of the Barcelona goal scored by Alexis Sánchez, who defeated Real Madrid 2-1 in the Camp Nou. On 11 December, scored his first three goals of the Champions League, and is scoring a hat-trick in the victory 6-1 over Celtic in Barcelona.
On July 4, during the FIFA World Cup 2014, in the match of quarterfinals with the selection of Brazil against Colombia, he suffered the fracture of the third lumbar vertebra after receiving a knee of Camilo Zuñiga that forced him to stay out of the tournament. On September 13, 2014, he scored two goals by beating Athletic Bilbao 2 - 0. On September 27, he scored a hat-trick before the Granada victory 6 - 0. On January 11, 2015, as part of the so-called "Holy Trinity" of Barcelona Neymar, Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi scored at home 3-1, beating the defending champion's League, Atletico Madrid.
On June 6, 2015 he managed the European Cup after defeating Juventus in Berlin. Barcelona won three trophies this season. La Liga , the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, in this order.
Neymar contributes 10% of their income to the Church.
At just 19 years old he was father David Lucca 2011. The mother of the child, Carolina, was 17 years old.