He played 79 minutes of Brazil's first match on 24 November, a 2–0 win in opposition to Serbia, however was unable to play the next two group games as a result of ankle ligament injury. On 28 November 2021, Neymar suffered an ankle harm in a 3–1 win over Saint-Étienne. His return from harm came on 15 February 2022 in a Champions League match towards Real Madrid, the place he got here on in its place and assisted Mbappé's injury-time goal to win the match 1–0.

In 1999, Neymar was ok to hitch the youth club referred to as Portuguesa Santista within the metropolis of Santos. Neymar continued to enhance, and, in another four years, he signed with team Santos FC and joined their youth academy. By signing with Santos FC, Neymar emulated soccer legends such as Robinho, Pepe, and Pelé. After two years of training and playing in the youth system, word of Neymar’s growing abilities traveled to Europe.

Neymar missed out on the first match of the 2020–21 season as a result of he had examined optimistic for COVID-19 every week earlier; PSG went on to lose the sport against Lens by a score of 1–0. However, he returned to coaching before the match in opposition to Marseille on 13 September 2020. PSG misplaced Le Classique for the first time since 2011 as OM had been victorious 1–0 in a match that had 14 yellow cards and 5 pink cards handed out by the referee, together with one of every to Neymar. Neymar suffered a hamstring injury in October whereas on international obligation with Brazil, and returned to play for PSG throughout their Champions League group match towards Real Madrid on 26 November in a 2–2 draw.

Enjoying his statistically best season since joining from Barcelona in 2017, Neymar impressed PSG once more final Sunday, scoring his aspect's opener and then establishing the winner at FC Lorient. His manager was just as impressed with the ahead's work ethic as his ability. "He's probably the greatest players in the world. Who wouldn't desire a participant like that in his team? That's all there could be to say." Neymar received a total of 13 targets and eleven assists in 20 French Ligue 1 matches last season.

He scored twice in a 4–0 home win over Real Sociedad on 28 November, taking his La Liga total to 14 goals in 12 video games. On 30 November, Neymar was shortlisted for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or alongside Messi and Ronaldo, and subsequently got here third. The front three of Messi, Suárez and Neymar finished the season with 131 targets, breaking the report they'd set the earlier yr for most goals by an attacking trio in a single season. In May, the closing month of the season, Neymar scored the last objective in a 3–0 win towards Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final. A week later, he scored both the staff's targets in a 3–2-second leg defeat on the Allianz Arena to ensure Barça would qualify for the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final.

As a half of Barcelona's attacking trio with Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez, dubbed MSN, he received the continental treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League. Motivated to be a talisman at club degree, Neymar transferred to PSG in 2017 in a transfer price €222 million, making him the costliest participant ever. In France, he won five league titles, among different honours, and was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Year in his debut season.

Neymar was the main objective scorer of the 2011 South American Youth Championship with nine targets, together with two within the last, in Brazil's 6–0 win against Uruguay. He additionally took half at the 2011 Copa América in Argentina, where he scored two goals within the first-round recreation towards Ecuador. He was chosen 'Man of the Match' in Brazil's first match against Venezuela, which ended a 1–1 draw. Brazil were eradicated within the quarter-finals in a penalty shoot-out in opposition to Paraguay (2–2 a.e.t.), with Neymar being substituted within the 80th minute.

Neymar made his first appearance for PSG in the 2019–20 season on 14 September 2019, in a 1–0 victory over Strasbourg in Ligue 1. He scored the successful objective in harm time in the second half from a bicycle kick. One week later, he again scored a late winner, as PSG defeated Lyon 1–0 on the Parc Olympique Lyonnais. On 27 August 2017, FC Barcelona filed a lawsuit towards Neymar, demanding he return the contract renewal bonus he received as nicely as €8.5 million in damages and a further 10% for the arrears.