Neymar : The Perfect Chaos

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At the moment I am getting over a minor procedure so I am watching sports documentaries to pass the time. I took @amirtheawesome1 advice and watched the Leeds documentary "Take Us Home" on Amazon which was good. Then i finally got around to the Man City "All or Nothing" when they were winning all around them. What a team they have!! But I wanted to watch the Neymar documentary next and I find the guy really interesting. The raw talent and skill he has is more than any other player in the world but I felt that the world started turning against him in the 2018 world cup with his over dramatic diving and petulance.

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Straight from the off I was intrigued by the relationship he has with his father who is also his agent and manager and looks after his empire. Some might say he has built his empire. The father is a hard neck and he is a fighter and you can see he has looked after the Neymar's brand since his son was young. But he looks at his son Neymar as a brand and he wants his son to take over the "company" when he retires. HE talks about Neymar ruining his brand and reputation by doing silly things. Neymar looks on in distain only really wanting to play football while his father goes on and on about building the brand.
His father tells the producers that they have 217 people working in the company. I found that unbelievable. While his father explains this Neymar is in the background in his quiet place playing shoot m up video games. He admits that he has grown distant to his father in recent years. His father wanted him to stay at Barcelona instead of going to PSG but Neymar decided he wanted to leave. 2 years later he had enough of Paris and wanted to return to Barca but this ended up being a disaster and the PSG ultras did not take kindly to their star player not bringing home a champions league like he promised and wanting out after two years.
I was just amazed at how much control his father had over everything. It looked like Neymar was still a child even though he is 28 years of age and had a child of his own being watched over by his overbearing father. It really is not a life I would like to have. At one stage in the documentary after the rape accusations where Neymar was found not guilty as he had a recording of the whole thing and it was a set up, his father started giving out to him about being so naive. Neymar said he didn't like the way his father spoke to people as he was overly aggressive with them and it was his opinion.
You could see Neymar hates confrontation so he just backed down.

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It just looks like the relationship Britney Spears had with her dad. Personally I think he should have another company managing him and leave his father just be his father. Take him out of the equation completely. It may go to a point after he retires that Neymar and his dad will fight over the Neymar brand which as it looks like belongs to his father at the moment.
You would think these guys have the perfect life but it's anything but in this case. Everywhere he goes, the father is there. He lives with him but you can see the divide now. It is well over the time now where Neymar needs to cut him loose. They say fathers that do not achieve what they want to achieve live their life through their siblings. It was interesting that his dad said

"When WE first won the champions league and when WE won the La Liga"
He believes it was him and not his son that won these things.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Surely his teammates find it a bit weird all of this. But when you look at the great great players. Ronaldo with his mother, she lives with him. Messi's father is his manager and Neymar with his dad. Maybe they do look after their best interests as they are family. But there comes a point in time where the child has to become a man. Messi and Ronaldo you can clearly see a divide. Neymar not yet. It was an interesting 3 episodes just to see the relationship and I will move onto the Brazil All or Nothing next.
The episode didn't delve into PSG that much but I did see that Neymar gets on great with his teammates especially Mbappe. He looks like a sound fella and he's all about having fun. He does mention in the documentary that he likes to party and play football as well as most people criticise him but it's his life and he can do whatever the fuck he wants which is true. He's a young guy and if he wants to party then why not?? It doesn't seem to affect his performances although some people do think he is overweight but this is because maybe he had always such a slight figure and is built a bit differently.
I found that in the 2014 and 2018 world cups , the weight of the whole Brazil was on his shoulders and I think the partying might relieve some of this stress. Neymar is a special player who should have won the Ballon D'or by now but unfortunately it is an era where Messi and Ronaldo are still playing.That comeback performance against PSG in the Champions League should have won him the Ballon D'or that year as he was the star player. This is why he left for PSG in the first place so he could be the star player in a big European team. He has signed a new deal with PSG until 2025 so the next 3 years will tell whether Neymar will be known as a true great of the game. After the Covid lockdown he did come back a refreshed player and PSG reached the final of the Champions League all down to him so it is not over yet for Neymar. This World cup in Qatar might be the year where he could really do it with Brazil. Finally they have a team now to compete unlike the last 8 years. It is no longer the Neymar team. It is a more well rounded team now with Neymar in it. If he is injured then it's alright, no big deal. So for Neymar the pressure is off which will mean he can play without the shackles. I can't wait to see how he gets on.
I have a different opinion of him after watching the series but I feel sorry for him in a way. He needs to man up now and dump the father in my opinion before he takes everything from him.