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Scottish Sun
4 days ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Neymar SENT OFF for attempting to score Maradona-style Hand of God goal after old club PSG win Champions League
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NEYMAR channelled his inner Diego Maradona as he was sent off for a blatant handball. The forward, 33, is currently back at his boyhood club Santos after a nightmare spell with Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Neymar punched the ball into the back of the net 4 The former PSG and Barcelona superstar was sent off Credit: Getty 4 It could prove to be his last appearance for boyhood club Santos Credit: Reuters The Brazilian side lost 1-0 to Botafogo yesterday to leave them 18th and in the relegation zone after 11 games of the season. Their issues were compounded when captain Neymar got red carded for doing his best Hand of God impression. With the score goalless after 75 minutes, the Botafogo goalkeeper palmed a cross towards him and it struck his midriff. A defender was going to beat him to the loose ball and clear, only for Neymar to jump forward and punch it into the back of the net from close range. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL FRONT FREE Free agent XI may be greatest unemployed team ever with Ronaldo, Messi & Neymar The referee saw it clearly, giving the superstar a second yellow and red card. With Santos down to ten-men, the visitors then scored the winner just ten minutes later. And it could prove to be Neymar's last appearance for the club as his short-term contract expires on June 30. He is suspended for their next game against Fortaleza and the fixture after versus Palmeiras is on July 12. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS Neymar has failed to roll back the years on his return to Brazil, missing eight matches through injury and scoring just three goals in 12 games. It comes after a disastrous time with Al-Hilal as his £2.5m-a-week contract was ripped up after just seven appearances and one goal in 18 months amid fitness issues. Neymar breaks down in tears and reveals 'each day I am away is a day of suffering' after injury hell And to add insult to injury, Neymar's old club PSG won the Champions League on Saturday night by smashing Inter Milan 5-0.
The Sun
4 days ago
- Sport
- The Sun
Neymar Sent Off for Handball in Possible Santos Farewell
NEYMAR has spoken about the impact Diego Maradona had on his career after meeting him as a child but his bid to emulate the late Argentine great's 'Hand of God' goal backfired on Sunday when he was sent off in what could be his last game for Santos. With Santos and Botafogo locked at 0-0 heading into the last 15 minutes of their Brazilian league game, Neymar launched himself at a rebound in the penalty area and steered the ball into the net with his hand. The Brazilian was quickly surrounded by furious Botafogo players before the referee flashed a second yellow card at the forward, cutting short his first start for the club since he made his return from injury last month. Rubbing salt into the wound, Botafogo scored with four minutes left to secure a 1-0 victory. The 33-year-old former Barcelona and Paris St Germain attacker later apologised to his team and fans. 'I made a mistake, forgive me!' he posted on social media. 'Today, if I hadn't been sent off, I'm sure we would have gotten the three points. You can count these three points against me!' Neymar had returned to his boyhood club Santos in January after a stint at Saudi Arabia's Al-Hilal, with his contract at the Brazilian side running until June 30. The red card rules him out of Santos's match against Fortaleza on Thursday, meaning he will only be able to play for the club again if he extends his contract before the league's resumption in July following the Club World Cup. Santos are 18th in the league having lost seven of their 11 matches.
The Irish Sun
14-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Irish Sun
Neymar splashes more than £1MILLION on personalised Ferrari family SUV to add to incredible car collection
NEYMAR has splashed out more than £1million on a personalised Ferrari family SUV. The 11 Neymar has added a luxury new car to his collection Credit: Newsflash 11 The Brazilian has splashed out on a £1million Ferrari Credit: Newsflash 11 Neymar has personalised the vehicle with his name Credit: Newsflash 11 Neymar has bought a SUV with another baby on the way Credit: Newsflash 11 The Santos star is expecting a fourth child Credit: Newsflash 11 The Ferrari Purosangue goes from 0-60mph in 3.2 seconds Credit: Alamy He already owns a lavish selection of vehicles totalling millions of pounds, and recently showed off his latest addition. Neymar took to Instagram, sharing a photo of the black four-door, four-seater Purosangue. The trim on the inside of the car has been personalised by the Brazilian, bearing his name. The Ferrari, which cost Neymar just over £1m according to reports in Brazil , goes from 0-60mph in just 3.2 seconds. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL It is the latest luxury car Neymar has got his hands on and will fit nicely in his garage alongside his other Neymar, 33, owns a £300,000 Rolls-Royce Ghost, and a Bentley Continental GT. He also possesses a Lamborghini Huracan with a top speed of 200mph while his Mercedes G Wagon and Aston Martin DBX, another SUV, cater to his large family. Neymar and his girlfriend Bruna Biancardi, 30, are Most read in Football BEST FREE BETS AND BETTING SIGN UP OFFERS Their first child, Mavie, was born in October 2023. Neymar has two other children - Davi Lucca, 13, and Neymar slashes team-mate's tyres in response to harmless shoelace prank as fans say 'that's a bit extreme' 11 Neymar also owns a Bentley Continental GT Credit: Getty 11 The Rolls Royce Ghost is one of his most prized possessions Credit: Getty 11 His Lamborghini Huracan is one of the quickest cars in his collection Credit: Getty 11 The Aston Martin DBX has plenty of room for his family Credit: Alamy 11 Neymar also owns a Mercedes G Wagon Credit: Alamy
Scottish Sun
14-05-2025
- Automotive
- Scottish Sun
Neymar splashes more than £1MILLION on personalised Ferrari family SUV to add to incredible car collection
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NEYMAR has splashed out more than £1million on a personalised Ferrari family SUV. The Santos star has added to his incredible car collection with another baby on the way. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 11 Neymar has added a luxury new car to his collection Credit: Newsflash 11 The Brazilian has splashed out on a £1million Ferrari Credit: Newsflash 11 Neymar has personalised the vehicle with his name Credit: Newsflash 11 Neymar has bought a SUV with another baby on the way Credit: Newsflash 11 The Santos star is expecting a fourth child Credit: Newsflash 11 The Ferrari Purosangue goes from 0-60mph in 3.2 seconds Credit: Alamy He already owns a lavish selection of vehicles totalling millions of pounds, and recently showed off his latest addition. Neymar took to Instagram, sharing a photo of the black four-door, four-seater Purosangue. The trim on the inside of the car has been personalised by the Brazilian, bearing his name. The Ferrari, which cost Neymar just over £1m according to reports in Brazil, goes from 0-60mph in just 3.2 seconds. It is the latest luxury car Neymar has got his hands on and will fit nicely in his garage alongside his other extravagant motors. Neymar, 33, owns a £300,000 Rolls-Royce Ghost, and a Bentley Continental GT. He also possesses a Lamborghini Huracan with a top speed of 200mph while his Mercedes G Wagon and Aston Martin DBX, another SUV, cater to his large family. Neymar and his girlfriend Bruna Biancardi, 30, are expecting their second daughter after reuniting last year following a split. BEST FREE BETS AND BETTING SIGN UP OFFERS Their first child, Mavie, was born in October 2023. Neymar has two other children - Davi Lucca, 13, and Helena, who is ten months old - born from different mothers, Carolina Dantas and Amanda Kimberlly. Neymar slashes team-mate's tyres in response to harmless shoelace prank as fans say 'that's a bit extreme' 11 Neymar also owns a Bentley Continental GT Credit: Getty 11 The Rolls Royce Ghost is one of his most prized possessions Credit: Getty 11 His Lamborghini Huracan is one of the quickest cars in his collection Credit: Getty 11 The Aston Martin DBX has plenty of room for his family Credit: Alamy
New York Times
26-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
If you think Neymar's career is a disappointment, it says a lot about unrealistic expectations
Most of the time when a player scores direct from a corner — an 'olimpico' — they're not necessarily trying to score. Stick it in the right area to cause some chaos, sure. If it happens to go in, great. But actively aiming for the opposite top corner? Not so much. Then there's Neymar. Brazil's record goalscorer has recently returned to his boyhood club, Santos, after a fairly calamitous spell in Saudi Arabia. Inevitably, he has been on the receiving end of some lively treatment from the stands, most recently from fans of Internacional de Limeira when Santos faced them in the Paulista Championship last weekend. After receiving some choice feedback while taking a corner, Neymar encouraged those fans to ramp up the abuse. They did. Neymar took the corner. You know what happened next. UGASUAGSDUASGDUAGSUDGA O NEYMAR METEU UM GOL OLÍMPICO! O ADM TÁ COMPLETAMENTE MALUCO! NíO É POSSÍVEL! KKKKKKKKKKKKKK #Paulistão2025 — TNT Sports BR (@TNTSportsBR) February 23, 2025 Neymar's return to Santos has not been treated by some as a glorious homecoming, but rather as a symbol of disappointment, another piece of evidence to support the idea that his career has been… if not a failure, certainly a bit of a letdown. It's not an unreasonable charge. Some things haven't gone to plan. He hasn't won the Ballon d'Or, he hasn't won the World Cup, Brazil won their only Copa America since he made his international debut when he was injured, he went to Saudi Arabia aged 31 when he could have enjoyed another few years playing at the highest level. Advertisement But it feels wrong to write him off as a disappointment. And if he has been, that says more about the expectation than it does about him. Because most of Neymar's career has been played under the weight of crushing expectation. He made his senior debut for Santos in 2009, aged 17, by which time the hype machine was well underway. He had already visited Europe for trials with Real Madrid, courted by Zinedine Zidane and the rest. His father, Neymar Snr, was merrily teeing up endorsement deals, the start of what would eventually become Neymar Inc, a whole industry that trades on his image that has also meant Jnr and Snr haven't had a real father-son relationship for the better part of two decades. Kids would approach him and ask in hushed tones, 'Are you really better than Messi?' He was almost immediately marked out as the next great hero of Brazilian football. Pele advocated for him to be part of Dunga's squad at the 2010 World Cup when he was barely 18. In 2011 he scored the goal that brought him to the worldwide consciousness, an astonishing solo effort for Santos against Flamengo that would win him the Puskas Award. That same year, he led his team to the Copa Libertadores title, their first since the 1960s, the only one they have won without Pele in the team. UGASUAGSDUASGDUAGSUDGA O NEYMAR METEU UM GOL OLÍMPICO! O ADM TÁ COMPLETAMENTE MALUCO! NíO É POSSÍVEL! KKKKKKKKKKKKKK #Paulistão2025 — TNT Sports BR (@TNTSportsBR) February 23, 2025 The following years were consumed by a combination of speculation about when he would move to one of Europe's giants, and how he would become Brazil's talisman, the player to lead them to glory and redemption at their home World Cup in 2014. It's easy to forget how crazy things were around Neymar at that tournament. He was 22 years old and the most historically successful football nation in the world was asking him to carry them on his back. When that back was fractured, by Colombia defender Juan Zuniga's knee, his team-mates held up his shirt in tribute, as if he had passed away tragically. He was still alive, but without him they had essentially admitted their hopes weren't. Advertisement After that, it was a cinch. All he was expected to do was become the best player in the world, measure up to Lionel Messi at Barcelona, then lead Paris Saint-Germain to their first-ever Champions League title. He had the misfortune to emerge as a brilliant, thrilling young footballer at a time when Brazilian football was at a low ebb, when they needed a figurehead to pin all their hopes on. People will also judge him because he couldn't do what previous greats have, which is to inspire his nation to winning the World Cup. But the idea that this should necessarily take too much shine off a player's legacy has always been a silly one. Would we think less of Messi if Lautaro Martinez and Gonzalo Montiel and Paulo Dybala had missed those penalties in 2022? Messi winning the World Cup is a great story, and provides a satisfying and complete end to his narrative, but he wouldn't be any less of a player if he hadn't. Just as Cristiano Ronaldo or Johan Cruyff or Alfredo Di Stefano aren't any less great. But if this is a game of 'show us your medals', Neymar has a decent collection: league titles in four countries, a Copa Libertadores, a Champions League, an Olympic gold. He's also his country's all-time leading goalscorer, more than Pele, Ronaldo, Vava, Garrincha, Ronaldinho and the rest. And then there are the intangibles. It's perfectly understandable if you don't really like Neymar: the diving, the brattish attitude, the array of stupid haircuts. But if you've watched Neymar and there haven't been dozens of moments where he made you feel joy, or remind you why you watch football, it's possible you're letting your personal distaste cloud your judgement. Neymar did invite some of this colossal expectation on himself. He's rarely been shy about self-promotion. By leaving Barcelona for PSG in 2017, he was actively saying he wanted to be The Guy, rather than The Guy Just to the Left of the Guy. He very publicly set himself some aims that he hasn't achieved. He has been held back by injuries, scandal and bad decisions. Advertisement But to judge him harshly by those standards ignores basically everything else that has happened in his career, or life. From when he was a boy, people expected him to become a god, Pele Mk II. All they got was a genius. And if that's a disappointment, if Neymar's career has not lived up to the expectations we have placed upon him, that's our problem, not his.
