NEYMAR GRATEFUL TO MESSI FOR RESCUING BARCELONA CAREER

Barcelona’s star forward Neymar has come on out, to express his gratefulness to his colleague and football star, Lionel Messi for looking out for him when he first joined the Catalonian giants and didn’t know his way around things then.


Neymar joined up with Barcelona in 2013, after moving from his former club, Santos. However, his transition into the team at the early period wasn’t quite smooth as he faced some early challenges. It was Messi, according to Neymar, that took him under his wings, brushing him up and making him into the key figure he is today.

Speaking recently to CNN, Neymar had said,

“I have a nice story about Messi. Soon after I arrived, it was not a great moment in my career and he was the one who helped me.

“He saw that I was sad, with my head down, that things were not going right for me. He told me to keep going, to be happy and to play the way I know. He told me this and he helped me a lot at that moment in time. He is a person who I admire a lot.” Continue reading NEYMAR GRATEFUL TO MESSI FOR RESCUING BARCELONA CAREER