Today the Brazilian national team announced the new South American World Preliminary Tournament roster, surprisingly, the former national team forward core player Neymar announced the loss of the big list, the reason given by the Brazilian Football Association is that Neymar is still in a state of injury, is not expected to participate in the two World Cup qualifiers in February this year, so Neymar was not included in the big list, in contrast, from Manchester City's Jesus, Real Madrid's Vinicius and Atletico Madrid's Cunha and other strikers, have been successfully selected. The squad was missing Neymar, and the strength of the Samba Legion did not seem to have been affected in any way. Brazil's absence from the national team has not attracted much attention.
What's more interesting is that Neymar was injured in November, the expected time of injury suspension is six to eight weeks, theoretically Neymar is fully able to participate in the next two World Cups in Brazil in February in a healthy state, and the Brazilian Football Association obviously can't wait, they are not willing to waste their big list for a Neymar, so they will decisively give up Neymar. This matter could not have been imagined four years ago. But now, Neymar's experience in brazil's national football team has clearly illustrated two problems: not only the times have changed, but Neymar has also changed.
Once MSN swept European football, today Neymar years are in full swing
Thinking back to that year, Neymar joined hands with Messi, Suarez two good brothers, MSN combination swept european football, almost unstoppable, at that time Neymar, was considered to be the third person after Messi and C Ronaldo, this view was almost no one refuted at the time. During his four years at Barca, Neymar helped them win back ten trophies, including the Champions League, and it was widely believed that as long as Neymar did not suffer fatal injuries such as a ruptured Achilles tendon in his career, he would be the strongest contender for the Ballon d'Or in the post-Mero era.
However, the post-Mero era has indeed arrived, and although Neymar has occasional minor injuries, he has no major injuries, but in a Golden Globe awards ceremony a few months ago, Neymar's ranking has fallen out of tenth place. No one believes today that Neymar will win the Ballon d'Or trophy in the foreseeable future. Although it is said that since he left Barca, Barça has spent at least 400 million euros to fill the gap left by Neymar's departure, this gap has not been filled, and after Neymar broke up with Barca as he wished, he actually did not have a satisfactory life.
Ferguson's phone call moved Neymar, and he only listened halfway
It is said that when Neymar was having a good time in Barca, Manchester United spokesman Ferguson called Neymar and told him: "If you stay in Barca, all the results you have achieved will go to Messi, and you can only be his supporting role, if you come to Manchester United, the club will give you the highest salary, build a tactical system with you as the core, and do your best to help you win the Ballon d'Or" To be honest, the conditions that Ferguson originally gave Neymar were indeed attractive enough, and with the strength of Neymar and Manchester United at that time, Once they join forces, they do have the strength to set off a bloody storm in the Premier League and even in European football, and finally shake the original stable sphere of influence.
At that time, Neymar was indeed moved, he was determined to leave Barca, get out of the shadow of Messi, and pursue his own Ballon d'Or, but Neymar did not choose to join Ferguson's Manchester United in the end, but instead flew into the Ligue 1, in order to join Paris Saint-Germain, he did not hesitate to completely break with Barca and came to Paris with a record transfer fee of 222 million euros.
One wrong step at a time, wishful thinking to join Neymar in Paris will eventually bear fruit
Many people think that Manchester United at that time had Ferguson in charge, fully worth Neymar's allegiance, but Neymar finally chose Paris, the reason is actually very simple, at that time Paris Saint-Germain has been run by the Qatari royal family, strong funds for the Champions League is almost inevitable, Neymar joined Paris is easier to achieve their ballon d'Or. However, unfortunately, after Neymar joined Paris, Paris has stopped in the top sixteen of the Champions League for two consecutive years, although there have been improvements, but in the end it has not been able to make Neymar lift the Champions League trophy, which is really disappointing. And during this time, the European football world is in turmoil, it has long begun to change the sky, and in the blink of an eye, Neymar is already a year old.
Today's Paris, not only Neymar, but also Mbappe, and even in this season Paris has introduced Messi. Now Neymar left Barca in large part to "hide" from Messi, and now the two good brothers are meeting again in Paris. Neymar learned that Messi was going to join the mood, outsiders are difficult to guess and understand, know why today?
Can Neymar, who is out of control of weight in a midlife crisis, still replace Messi?
What is even more embarrassing is that Neymar, who used to be considered to inherit Messi's mantle, did not wait for Messi to grow old, but first waited for his own midlife crisis. Judging from the performance of the two this season, Neymar seems to look older than Messi, not only the on-field data is unbearable, but also its competitive status and physical fitness are not comparable to Messi. At first, no one wanted to believe that Neymar would leave messi and Suarez, two good brothers, to go to Paris alone when the prospects were clear, but now Messi has left Barca, where he has played for more than twenty years, leaving home and Neymar once again becoming teammates.
Since the start of the season, Neymar has only played 5 games. The number of playing hours is even worse than some of the substitutes in Paris, and worse, the reason why Neymar has recently been on the brazilian media hotspot is not his absence from the national team roster, but because he has gained weight and his physical management has failed completely during the last two months of recuperation. During his recuperation in Brazil, the brazilian local media has seen what Neymar has done, and even some media say that Neymar has been doing stupid things, and at the age of 30, his weight has been increasing with age.
Today, the strength of the Samba Legion has nothing to do with Neymar
In the words of domestic fans, Neymar has now become "meatmar". With his current physical fitness and competitive status, even if he can recover in February, the Brazilian national team may not be willing to let Neymar, who is in such a poor state, join the Brazilian national team, perhaps because Kylian Mbappe is neglecting to manage his weight and state, and perhaps this is the main reason why Neymar, as the captain of the Brazilian national team, has lost the World Preliminary Round.
As we all know, Neymar has been waiting for eight years for the Golden Globe Award, and the selection criteria are the results of the player's national team plus the club's achievements, combined with the individual performance of the players, and after combining various conditions, the voting is generated. Now the Brazilian team behind Neymar is about to launch another attack on the World Cup title, and he has to miss the last two games of the World Preliminary Round, which has shown that in the Brazilian team, Neymar is no longer a player in the C position, in other words, in the eyes of some Brazilian media, the strength of the Brazilian team has nothing to do with Neymar!
Before it ushered in its own era, the back wave had already swept in
At the club level, the reason why Neymar was able to join Paris Saint-Germain with a record transfer fee was because, at that time, in European football, Neymar was the real pride of heaven, and his young players, whether talented or technical and tactical, were far inferior to him, but now, the times have changed, although there is no eternal young Neymar in European football, but there is always a better and younger back wave, Mbappe and Haland composed of a new "absolute double pride" has been born. Neymar has not yet ushered in his own era, he has already suffered a serious impact of the back wave, once he was the person closest to the Ballon d'Or, but now, the Ballon d'Or, which was originally available, has gradually drifted away from him.