[News]Neymar, double contagion to PSG

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Injured for the return leg against Real Madrid in the round of 16 match two seasons ago and also out of the team due to injury in the tie against United last year. On a continental level, Neymar's record of merits at PSG was a ruin for the Parisian team, which accumulated failure after failure with the Brazilian as a luxury spectator from the infirmary. Nasser Al-Khelaifi did not spend 222 million euros for Neymar to accumulate leagues and cups in France. No such saddlebag was needed for that trip. Three years after his signing, the investment is finally about to do its job.

 

Despite being very misguided in front of goal and having no luck with the sticks, the eighth final of Neymar's Champions in Lisbon is beluga caviar. With Mbappé still limping from the injury suffered a month ago in the League Cup final, the Brazilian has taken the lead on his back. Tuchel also has his share of guilt, placing Neymar at '10', instead of hitting the left wing. From that role, the Brazilian moves the entire offensive arsenal of PSG, and exploits his privileged technique with dribbles, pipes, changes of pace, passes and filigree, actions impossible to stop if not with a foul.

 

                                           

 

Settle down

Fine, daring and committed, Neymar has nothing to do with the player who last summer pressed in the shadows to return to Barcelona. That failed return trip to the Camp Nou made him open his Brazilian eyes, on his way to being a photocopy of Ronaldinho and beginning his decline at the age of 28. For his own destiny, that of PSG and that of fans of show football, Neymar knew how to avoid that dead-end street that he was about to take and once again directs the course of his career towards an exciting challenge, to become champion of the Europe to PSG.

 

For this, he has put all his football talent and, what is more important, his professionalism at the service of the team. He was already key in the round of 16 tie against Borussia to overcome the 2-1 first leg in Dortmund. And in Lisbon, his performances against Atalanta and Leipzig have been of the magnitude expected of a footballer of his stature, just at the right time to bring PSG to glory.

 

Neymar's leadership over green also extends off the pitch. Play good, bad or fair, what will never change is your jovial personality, a teenager in an adult body. His show entering the stadium after getting off the bus with an XXL speaker in his hand and the music at full blast speaks for itself. A music, party and fun lover, as a good Brazilian, he has managed to spread that happiness that he carries in his DNA to the rest of the wardrobe. The celebrations after going to the semifinals and the final, led by Neymar, show a united PSG, something that had not happened until now. When it comes to doing the ‘payasete’, they are also a pineapple: We are a family and we share the same goal, said the Brazilian after the comeback to Atalanta in the quarterfinals.

 

After the semifinal, he did not attend the media but he was already in charge of showing his joy on his Instagram account, uploading a story in which he appeared partying on a boat with a Red Bull can in his hand, an image accompanied by the message Pai ta na final, (I'm in the final). Vacile Neymar in the line of some exaggerated celebrations when they have not yet won anything, but Neymar is as he is, and prudence has never been the best company of the Brazilian or of this PSG with the money for punishment: We have come here to get to the final and to win it, Tuchel sentenced after 3-0 at Leipzig.

 

Among the few who maintained their composure was the president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is surely the one who has suffered the most in these almost nine years of Qatari ownership at PSG. 1,300 million in transfers to accumulate eliminations in the eighth and quarterfinals of the Champions League, some of them grotesque, as in the eighth of 2017 with that 6-1 against Barcelona at the Camp Nou, a result that turned the 4-0 of going to the Park of the Princes; or goodbye against a United full of substitutes, also in the second round, last year.

 

We have been looking for this final for a long time. It is really a dream to have come this far. Since 2011 and we have finally achieved it. It is one of the best nights of my life and I am happy that all the fans are enjoying these moments, from the heart, reflected the owner of PSG. What I did not know is that some of those fans, the radicals, were bundling him in the streets of Paris with a shameful celebration without a mask or safety distance. The only mole on the most important night of PSG's 50 years of life.