Neymar warming up for La Liga in style

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Brazilian sensation Neymar is warming up in spectacular style for displaying his talent at his new home – the football powerhouse of Barcelona – alongside another phenom, Lionel Messi. Neymar has scored in each of the three league games for Brazil, twice before the tenth minute of the match and has rounded it off with a spectacular free kick against Gianluigi Buffon’s Italian side.

3 consecutive Man of the Match awards outline the role he is donning in overseeing his team to dominating victories. With his performances, the new Brazil Number 10 has also grabbed the headlines of his rejuvenated national team which is slowly winning the hearts of the fans again.

Neymar’s arrival in the La Liga will be a challenge for Tito Villanova as he would be faced with the prospect of handling two of the best footballers in the world with a big reputation for their goal scoring prowess. But Neymar’s humble assessment of Messi as the better player and his willingness to assist the Argentinian to continue to be the best football player on the planet could actually aid Villanova’s cause on the positive side.

With the Confederations Cup semifinals beckoning against formidable opponents in Diego Forlan’s Uruguay, Neymar will certainly look to find the back of the net again and achieve the immediate goal of seeing Brazil lifting the cup – something he might have to fight for against the men who just might spoil his party, Del Bosque’s gladiators in red.

Neymar warming up for La Liga in style

AppId is over the quota
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Brazilian sensation Neymar is warming up in spectacular style for displaying his talent at his new home – the football powerhouse of Barcelona – alongside another phenom, Lionel Messi. Neymar has scored in each of the three league games for Brazil, twice before the tenth minute of the match and has rounded it off with a spectacular free kick against Gianluigi Buffon’s Italian side.

3 consecutive Man of the Match awards outline the role he is donning in overseeing his team to dominating victories. With his performances, the new Brazil Number 10 has also grabbed the headlines of his rejuvenated national team which is slowly winning the hearts of the fans again.

Neymar’s arrival in the La Liga will be a challenge for Tito Villanova as he would be faced with the prospect of handling two of the best footballers in the world with a big reputation for their goal scoring prowess. But Neymar’s humble assessment of Messi as the better player and his willingness to assist the Argentinian to continue to be the best football player on the planet could actually aid Villanova’s cause on the positive side.

With the Confederations Cup semifinals beckoning against formidable opponents in Diego Forlan’s Uruguay, Neymar will certainly look to find the back of the net again and achieve the immediate goal of seeing Brazil lifting the cup – something he might have to fight for against the men who just might spoil his party, Del Bosque’s gladiators in red.

Neymar warming up for La Liga in style

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Brazilian sensation Neymar is warming up in spectacular style for displaying his talent at his new home – the football powerhouse of Barcelona – alongside another phenom, Lionel Messi. Neymar has scored in each of the three league games for Brazil, twice before the tenth minute of the match and has rounded it off with a spectacular free kick against Gianluigi Buffon’s Italian side.

3 consecutive Man of the Match awards outline the role he is donning in overseeing his team to dominating victories. With his performances, the new Brazil Number 10 has also grabbed the headlines of his rejuvenated national team which is slowly winning the hearts of the fans again.

Neymar’s arrival in the La Liga will be a challenge for Tito Villanova as he would be faced with the prospect of handling two of the best footballers in the world with a big reputation for their goal scoring prowess. But Neymar’s humble assessment of Messi as the better player and his willingness to assist the Argentinian to continue to be the best football player on the planet could actually aid Villanova’s cause on the positive side.

With the Confederations Cup semifinals beckoning against formidable opponents in Diego Forlan’s Uruguay, Neymar will certainly look to find the back of the net again and achieve the immediate goal of seeing Brazil lifting the cup – something he might have to fight for against the men who just might spoil his party, Del Bosque’s gladiators in red.

Barca should not sacrifice style, says Messi

Argentine star and world player of the year Lionel Messi on Wednesday urged Barcelona not to change their style despite their chastening Champions League semi-final loss to Bayern Munich.

Bayern hammered seven goals past the Catalan club for no reply but Messi insists that loss is no reason to change the club's attacking philosophy.

"It gets ever more difficult and you cannot win everything every year," Messi told Mexican broadcaster Azteca.

"We have been playing the same way for a long time and all the coaches' years, all the teams are looking at you and studying how we are not winning, at least in Europe", observed Messi.

"But we cannot go crazy over what happened this year. We cannot change Barcelona's style, which is what has always characterised this team. You have to keep calm and look to the year ahead," said Messi, whose side have after all wrested the Spanish league title back from Real Madrid.

Messi said the forced absences of coach Tito Vilanova, who replaced the hugely successful 'Pep' Guardiola but had to have several bouts of cancer treatment in the United States, had made a difference.

"When he was away we noticed the difference. It was not that the people around him were not up to scratch just that the image of the head coach was missing .. obviously things weren't the same."

Yet with the Spanish league crown back at the Nou Camp, Messi concluded: "A season is very long and to be able to end it celebrating is wonderful."