Neymar, a legend for both Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, chose to go with the real “king” of the beautiful game rather than Lionel Messi, a former teammate of his.
While Neymar has been playing football for sixteen years, he has had the opportunity to play alongside some of the very best players who have ever stepped onto a football pitch. These players include Luis Suarez, Kylian Mbappe, and Ronaldinho.
Messi, whom the Brazilian played alongside both at Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, is possibly the greatest teammate that the Brazilian has ever had. The two together made a total of 206 appearances together during their time together.
Although this is the case, Messi is not the person that Neymar looks up to as the true king of football. Neymar, who is 33 years old, is certain that Messi is not the person who holds that title.
Football fans have predicted that Neymar will go on to become one of the very best players in the history of the game ever since the early days of his career. Some of these fans have even placed him on the same level as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi before he even began his career.
But the Brazilian player stunned the entire world when he made the decision to leave Barcelona and sign with Paris Saint-Germain, a club that competes in Ligue 1. However, this move did not live up to the expectations that were based on the world-record transfer fee that he received.
The result of this was that Neymar became known as “the prince who didn’t want to be a king.” However, when Neymar was questioned about the name, he revealed who the real king of football is.
Neymar explained his decision to become a king to the ‘TheGrefg’ YouTube channel. “It’s not that I didn’t want to be a king; it’s that for me, there is only one king, and that is Pelé,” Neymar clarified.
There were a lot of things that took place, and I suffered a lot of injuries that cost me a lot of money in my career. Well, God wanted it to be that way. Quite the contrary, I have no reason to feel down or depressed.
I have a lot of contentment with both my life and my story. Not only did I accomplish almost everything I had dreamed of, but I also accomplished things that I had never dreamed of doing. Since God has altered not only my life but also the lives of my family and friends, I am extremely grateful to him. That is the thing that I consider to be the most important.
As a result of the fact that Pele is widely considered to be among the greatest Brazilian players of all time, it should not come as a surprise that Neymar looks up to him. Neymar would have grown up watching footage of the icon lifting the World Cup with Brazil on three separate occasions.
