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Do ya'll think Neymar never won a ballon d'or cuz of his competition or less skills (alien.top)

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I see guys talking shit about how Neymar never won a ballon d'or, but we can say that his competition being ronaldo and Messi it was hard for him to achieve that goal, what's ya'll opinion?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're going to get a bunch of shitty opinions on here that all they can do is hate or throw back handed compliments. I'd be surprised if most of this sub even watched him play pre PSG because that is longer than 2 years ago.

Regardless of how well he did at Barca it was clear Messi was going to get the credit for his work. We saw this with their comeback vs. PSG. That game was won because of Neymar. Messi and Suarez had literally given up and Neymar was the only one still fighting.

The biggest reason outside of that is fitness. He just can't stay fit all season.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You've got a point. I've seen a Brazilian journalist talking about Neymar's physical condition after this last injury, he did the math and Neymar was under injury treatment for more than 3 years during his career. To put it into perspective, Ronaldo was for 4 years. After the transfer to PSG the number of matches played decreased significantly. I think the answer is not gonna be a single factor one. Competing with Messi and C.Ronaldo, his professionalism or lack of, bad carrer decisions, injuries, timing, etc.

I'm Brazilian and out here, he's never been an unanimity, both among journalists and the public, most because of his attitude, in the field and out. There's a lot of things about his personal life that are talked about a lot here, that I don't know if the rest of the world pays attention to, that helps painting the picture of how his personality might have influenced badly on his career.