From The Blessings Of God To The Passion for Football; Journey Of Neymar
Football is one of the most popular sport on earth with maximum no. of fans and around one billion people watching football world cup on television. The greatest footballer are now legends, the passion for football among people is to it’s extreme level but every one doesn’t reach to that point, where they can be called as legends or face of football. Someone has correctly said that legends are born in February, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior or simply Neymar Jr. the only pillar holding the hopes of Brazilian People. The face of Brazilian national team and current icon of Brazil iturns 25 today. So here goes the journey of Neymar
# God’s Blessings Saved Neymar, When He Was Of Four Months
According to Neymar Jr.’s father, Neymar would have died in a car accident when he was just of four months old. In 1992, while returning form Santos after meeting their relatives, they met an accident in which Neymar was all blood but when reached to hospital, it was a minor cut on his head which made him bleed. It was really God’s blessings which came up as womb for Neymar as the accident was so brutal.
# A Call From His Idol
In 2010, when Neymar got a proposal from Chelsea to join and leave Santos. He then received a call from a call from the legend of Football, Pele to stay in Santos. President Luis Álvaro had a meeting with Neymar and his father at the Santos headquarters, inside the Vila Belmiro and told neymar to stay.
This is the chair of the great national sports hero. Since Ayrton Senna’s death, this chair is vacant. If Neymar Jnr stays in Santos and refuses Chelsea’s proposal, he will give his first step to sit in this chair.’ – President told Neymar’s father.
# Passion For Football
To become great In something, you must be expert in something and for becoming an expert, you need practice and for practice, you must have passion. As a passionate person can achieve any goal, whether it is of soccer or life. Neymar use to play football in his house and use to practice dribbling and had improvised his skills while practicing in his house by defending with households.
“My cousins also played. I mean — they were part of the game. Jennifer was one of the goalposts. Rafaela, my sister, was one of the posts for a long time. Lorrayne and Rayssa were the opponents (actually, more like training dummies, with all due respect).
They stood as obstacles and sometimes even wore sports jerseys so I could pretend it was a real match.
Later, at the little house my father was able to build, the ‘pitch’ was very simple. One of the goals was on the back door. I played, narrated and cheered. ‘And then Neymar scored! Neymarzinho!’ Me! I miss all that.
There were even ‘fouls’. When I dribbled and hit the sofa, I complained to the imaginary referee. But I played like it was for real.” Neymar told in his interview.
# Injuries
Sports and injuries go hand in hand and the same happened with Barcelona striker when he was left bloodied after taking an elbow to the face from Bolivian forward Yasmani Duk in the 63rd minute of the game in the world cup qualifying round. Picking himself back up off the turf after a number of seconds, Neymar was left wiping blood from his eyes as the Brazilian physio team crowded around the superstar. He was substituted in the 69th minute as medics failed to stem the tide of blood gushing from his head wound, although his withdrawal made no impact on the game with Canarinho scoring a late goal to complete the 5-0 victory.
But now the star is healthy and is enjoying the game. so here we once again wish him a very happy birthday.
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