Target of ‘haters’, Neymar has experience in ‘cancellations’; remember the top 5

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Unfortunately, it didn’t work for Brazil at the World Cup in Qatar, and the long-awaited sixth will have to wait for 2026. The team lost on penalties to Croatia. And, with the defeat, it didn’t take long for the internet to go after the culprits. Many people have pointed the finger at Tite, at defender Marquinhos and, above all, at the biggest name in the national team: Neymar, 30.

Even having scored a goal in overtime, the player has been the target of criticism – especially from “haters” (those who love to speak ill of the internet) – for not being able to lead the team to a victory on the field. However, this is not the first “cancellation” nor should it be the last that the player goes through.

Even Galvão Bueno has already “cancelled” Neymar. In 2021, in a leaked audio attributed to the Globo narrator, it was possible to hear him cursing the player as an “idiot”, after a reporter said that Neymar left the field without giving explanations after a goalless draw. At the time, this resulted in a public argument with the player’s sister and father.

below the F5 recalls five times Neymar was “cancelled” in recent years.

‘CAI-CAI’, ‘IDIOT’ AND INTERNATIONAL SHAME

Neymar’s fame as a “cai-cai” has haunted him for almost ten years, and is almost always the subject of the national and international press. During opponents’ arrivals, whether they were hard or not so hard, the striker was often criticized for valuing takedowns to try to get a yellow card from the referee.

To this day, he has to deal with it. At the beginning of the Qatar Cup, the Brazilian became a laughing stock when he was characterized by a newspaper in a video on social networks as “cai-cai”. The international sports website Bleacher Report posted the content with the main athletes of the tournament in the form of dolls.

In the video, Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk tackles the ball, and Neymar feels pain on the ground, something that was characterized as “typical” behavior in the history of the number 10.

TAX FRAUD

In 2016, the Federal Public Ministry denounced the striker, then a Barcelona player, for alleged tax evasion and ideological falsehood. In addition to the athlete, his father, Neymar da Silva Santos, Sandro Rosell, former president of Barcelona, ​​and Josep Maria Bartomeu, agent of the Catalan team, were also denounced.

In a decision in November of this year, Justice maintained the fine for tax evasion, but reduced the debt with the Federal Revenue, as it agreed with some arguments. According to UOL, the amount he will have to pay to the tax authorities will be calculated at the end of the process, but the original fine was more than R$ 188 million.

All this movement usually comes to the fore in attacks on social networks, especially when the ace is charged for something he did or said.

CHARGE OF RAPE

In 2019, a woman filed a police report accusing the player of rape and assault. The two met after exchanging messages on a social network. Neymar bought tickets and paid for her accommodation in Paris. The crimes would have happened in May of that year in the French capital.

The alleged crime, of course, became one of the main subjects of social networks at the time. Gradually, videos with what had actually happened in the room began to appear, which made the case change in favor of the number 10 shirt. still chases the player from time to time.

LEAVE NEYMAR, ENTER MARTA

2016 Olympics in Rio. The men’s soccer team began its trajectory in the Games with the blemish of never having won a gold medal. In the first two games, the team, then led by Rogério Micale, tied with South Africa and Iraq, and left the field booed. Among the athletes, the most criticized was Neymar, who could not lead the selection to triumphs.

A moment that was etched in the memory of many was when a ten-year-old boy crossed out the striker’s name on the number 10 shirt and wrote Marta’s name in its place. The women’s team, at that point, was having a good championship, after winning the first two clashes.

At the end of that competition, curiously, everything was reversed. The men’s team recovered and won the gold, and the women’s team lost in the semifinals, and didn’t even take the bronze.

SUPPORT FOR BOLSONARO

The most recent cancellation of the number 10 was when, two or three days before the 2022 election, he decided to confirm his support (until then veiled) for the then re-election candidate Jair Bolsonaro (PL). With choreography and jingle, the player did the number 22 with his hands and it went viral, to the irritation of the CBF, which had asked the athletes not to demonstrate, and also of the part of the population that wanted other directions for the country.

Before that, Neymar had never taken a political stand, but he already had a close relationship with the politician. So much so that in 2019 the president went to a clinic in Brasília where the striker of the Brazilian national team was, sent to the place after leaving an injured friendly. Both took pictures together. Neymar has also received Bolsonaro at his institute.

The player even promised that he would honor the Republic representative after his first goal in the Cup, something he did not fulfill (political manifestations are prohibited in the World Cup). Even so, it was difficult to disassociate the attacker’s name from that of the current president. All he has to do is slip up to receive the label of Bolsonarist, always used pejoratively by those who try to attack him.

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