Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior or simply Neymar, twenty-one years, the peak of the most famous hair in the world, finally said "yes" this Saturday, May 25 "Yes" FC Barcelona and its galaxy of football stars of the Argentine Lionel Messi. The young Brazilian prodigy has succumbed to the lure Catalan. Released Friday by his club Santos after a week in which twists the emissaries of Barca have followed several days at the bedside of players and managers, Neymar said in the evening on his Instagram page he would " Monday signed a contract with Barcelona. " Santos FC, on his Facebook page, and FC Barcelona, on its website, have both confirmed the information. Barca said that Neymar will sign a five-year contract.
According to Brazilian media, Real Madrid, who have just seen from his Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, would have a greater than Barça offers Spanish champions but rolled in the Champions League by the Germans Bayern Munich winners tournament a few hours earlier.
"GOALSCORER PROLIFIC"
The Brazilian site UOL said, without citing sources, that Real had offered 35 million euros and an annual salary of 11 million euros, against 28 million and seven million salary offered not Barca. A figure also echoed by the daily Folha de Sao Paulo. According to the agent Raul Sanllehi, the Catalan team, Neymar has chosen his team because "the dream of playing with it persisted for years," reports the site.
On his page, who scored 137 goals in 221 matches in the colors of Santos announced that he will still Sunday the first game of the season which begins in Brazil against Flamengo. "I wanted to play the game, he wrote. Want to have the opportunity to enter again in the field with (the jersey of Santos) and hear the fans chanting my name."
After his first classes on the grounds of futsal, small Neymar receives praise from the local press after a school tournament. He is 13 years old and there is already talk of him as a leader. At 14, he was spotted by an emissary of Real Madrid. Marcelo Teixeira, then head of Santos, stopped the transaction and offers a million reais to the young player. A few months later, he made him sign his first contract. Professional in 2009, the salary Neymar reach, less than a year later, 150 000 reais per month, plus 350,000 reais advertising gains.
Le Monde, he said "taking it all in a very natural way," referring to his family, "always there to be careful not to give in too rapid change." And especially the father, himself a former football player, which he once said he was her mirror. Neymar da Silva Santos who watches over the career of his son. "Here where we come from, life was not easy," Neymar had slipped in reference to his childhood in the suburbs and favelas of Sao Paulo and Santos. Even today, he and his father met in the afternoon to take a joint decision to leave Brazil.
On its website, the Catalan club is delighted to recruit a player "with a refined technique that makes this prolific scorer a nightmare for defenses." He added: "The comparison with Pele is not exaggerated." With Neymar, Santos won its third in 2011 Copa Libertadores (the South American equivalent of the Champions League), the first since the 1960s, the era of the great Pele.