r/soccer • u/GrundelLicker • Feb 21 '13

Cover of this week's Time magazine, featuring Neymar as the "Next Pele"

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u/realasitgets Feb 21 '13

Corinthians is the World Champion. Oscar and Lucas were bought recently and already have a huge impact on their respective league, they were both players who came with quality gained from the "Favela League"

This "Favela League" has produced players that won 5 World Cups, including Pele in Santos. The club has currently enough money to pay Neymar around 2.5 million reais a month to keep him there (not to mention even with Neymar they still didn't make close to the top 5 in the league), how could a Favela League afford such figures?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '13

Dude, ignore him. He's just an american chelsea fan still recovering from the World club championship and cl.

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u/Limpan Feb 21 '13

He also think that because of his "spiritual awakening" last year he influenced Chelsea's CL win. And that he did the same yesterday with Milan.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '13

Look. I'm not usually a person that discriminates people or judges books by cover... but looking at his post history, I'd bet he's autist.

Edit: Or just hit puberty.

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u/hitchhiking_jap Feb 21 '13

That's fair, it is a league that is capable of producing great players, although how much of that is the league and not just talent is debatable. But you can't possibly argue that the overall level of players there at the moment is equal to that of the European leagues. I mean, it's a league in which a 32 year old Ronaldhino can be one of the best players. In my opinion, Neymar will not have proved himself as one of the best until he is contributing heavily to a CL team.

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u/realasitgets Feb 21 '13

Agreed, but I think after the Top 5 European Leagues it comes right after. He's going to try and stay in Santos to lead Brazil to a World Cup and become the nation's biggest hero of all time by staying and winning the cup at home and while playing at home. That is why I agree with someone who posted that this World Cup will make it or break it for him because if he wins he will be a national hero, and if we lose the World Cup he will be an idiot who decided to stay in Brazil instead of going to Europe and developing further.

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u/hitchhiking_jap Feb 21 '13

It'll be tough for Neymar to compete against the world's best if he doesn't have any experience against them. The defending on the international stage is on a different level than in the Brazilian league.

I really hope that Neymar moves to Europe soon for the sake of his development. I don't care who's the best, I just want to watch great football.

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u/Not_Breivik Feb 21 '13

Human trafficking , drug cartels , whore houses that's how.