Forgetting for one moment the party against the Málaga in which Neymar Jr could not surrender to his best level and besides finish being expelled, the true is that the big performances that has cuajado the Brazilian star of the FC Barcelona with the team culé and with Brazil have planted him like one of the big candidates to win the next edition of the Balloon of Gold.
The magazine that concedes the prize from 1956, "France Football", has decided to devote his next number to the genius of the Barça and the "canarinha", ensuring that it already is prepared to conquer the award. "As yes, Neymar aims to the Balloon of Gold", prays the headline.
The advance of the summary of the next edition of the magazine takes like base the importance that had Neymar in the traced back historical of the Barça against the PSG. "To a treintena of weeks of the disclosure of the Balloon of Gold, zoom on Neymar, that is doing the true pattern of the Barça", says in the newspaper, "taking out benefit particularly of a less spectacular performance of Leo Messi".
This last sentence on Leo Messi is more than debatable, taking into account that the Argentinian is "Pichichi" of League and Champions at present, and besides this same season already has saved the pieces of furniture for the Barça in diverse occasions, like the 2-1 to the Leganés in the Camp Nou.
Neymar, increasingly decisive with the Barça and Brazil
"Until the point of suplantar prompt to Messi in the classification of the Balloon of Gold?", they ask in the magazine, forgetting entirely of Cristiano Ronaldo. "France Football" Ensures that "Neymar took a new dimension this season. Until the point to be an increasingly serious applicant in the career to the Balloon of Gold".
"There will be for the PSG a before and an after 8 March 2017. For Neymar also. For the first time in his Catalan career, the Brazilian was the only star in some eighth unforgettable. Messi had disappeared. Suarez had discreet fact. This time, the pattern, was Neymar", says .
And, finally, it remembers the goals that accumulates already Neymar with the selection of Brazil, a total of 51. "To the same age, Leo Messi had inscribed 27 for Argentina, and Cristiano Ronaldo 22 with Portugal!". A data without place to notable doubts.