- The ex-footballer Juninho Paulistaex-coordinator of the Brazilian team, stated that Neymar looks for “privileges” when he is concentrated with the Canarinha, something in his opinion “normal”, since he is the “best player” of the team.
“He comes to the Brazilian team and is humanly normal, because he is at the same level as those players (for the Argentine Lionel Messi and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo)try some kind of privilege,” said Juninho in an interview with the ‘ge’ portal.
Asked about the type of benefits, he replied that the Paris Saint-Germain striker demands “stupid things that do no harm” the operation of the template, without offering more details.
“Then it is up to us to show him that some situations are fine. Others are not. In most cases, he will do what all the players do,” he clarified.
Nevertheless, Juninho rejected the “lying” criticism that they insinuated that Neymar commanded in the selection that he directed at the time Adenor Leonardo Bachi ‘Tite’, who left the bench of Brazil after losing in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 against Croatia.
In additiondenied disciplinary problems with Neymar during that stage and assured that “always” it was “very calm” to deal with him.
“That also has a lot of our merit. The generation is different from the previous one, it is different from mine, it is not ‘no because not’, there has to be a foundation,” he said when explaining the reasons that led them to veto the presence of relatives and friends in concentration hotels.
He also pointed out that the former Santos and Barcelona player “always tried to encourage and show what he thought” in the meetings with the technical commission and in the dressing room.
“Of course, he is much more of a technical leader, but he also manages that leadership off the pitch,” he stressed.
read also
