Neymar, iseymar da Silva Santos Júnior (born 5 February 1992), known as Neymar Júnior or mononymously as a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the Brazil national team. A prolific goalscorer and playmaker renowned for his dribbling skills, he is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world and the best Brazilian player of his generation. Neymar has scored at least 100 goals for three different clubs, making him one of the few players to achieve this featNeymar came into prominence at Santos, where he made his professional debut aged 17. Soon becoming the Brazilian league's star player, he won the 2011 Copa Libertadores with Santos, being their first since 1963. He was named the South American Footballer of the Year in 2011 and 2012, and relocated to Europe to join Barcelona in 2013. In his second season, as part of Barcelona's attacking trio with Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, dubbed MSN, he won the continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League. Motivated to be the focal player at club level, Neymar unexpectedly left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in 2017[4] in a €222 million transfer, which made him the most expensive player ever.[note 1] Despite becoming injury prone in Paris, he was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Year in his debut season, helped


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PSG attain an historic domestic quadruple and reach its first ever Champions League finalin the 2019–20 season, and became the highest scoring Brazilian player in Champions League history.[7] In 2023, after six seasons in Paris, Neymar signed for Al Hilal in a lucrative deal.Debuting for Brazil aged 18, Neymar is the all-time top goalscorer for his national team with 79 goals in 128 matches. He won the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, winning the Golden Ball. His participation in the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2015 Copa América was cut short by injury and a suspension, respectively, before captaining Brazil to their first Olympic gold medal in men's football at the 2016 Summer Olympics, having already achieving a silver medal at the 2012 edition. Having renounced the captaincy, he featured at the 2018 World Cup, and after missing the 2019 Copa América through injury, helped Brazil to a runner-up finish at the 2021 tournament. He has won a record six Samba Gold awards, given to the best BrazilianKplayer in Europe.spot to fourth in 2020.

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