This is what happens when you don’t take care of the body as a professional.
February every 2 years was the worst man. Right in time for the UCL round of 16.
Probably cried like a child at each one too. Emotionally unstable idiot.
Anthony Davis of football
To be fair he played more minor by 24 than scholes did his whole career
Neymar gets fouled a lot, and after that foot injury, he became injury prone, he did become more fragile. Also, age is catching up with him, but there’s more to it.
When a player is younger, they are naturally more resistant and recover faster. Neymar isn’t a guy who skips practice, but he was never the guy to take it easy in his private life. That’s fine, everyone does whatever they want as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone, and, again, Neymar doesn’t slack off with the club. But when someone picks up an injury, said injury doesn’t take breaks. If you twist your ankle, you treat it, but it’s still hurt when you’re at home, when you go out, etc. That’s the thing with Neymar: slowing down to give his body time to get better when he isn’t obligated to was never his thing. That left a toll in his body as injuries accumulated, and now every now and then he’s missing games. And there’s still more to it.
Let’s talk about how Neymar gets fouled a lot. He wants that. He wants to have the ball as much as possible, and often prefers an individual challenge to passing the ball a teammate, even if the latter is the better option. Neymar actively seeks challenges. Being such a player, he should have always worked a bit differently when it comes to getting his body for blows, but he never did that work specifically.
And remember that the injuries on the list are just the ones that took him out of action for longer than 30 days. Neymar missed a lot of games with shorter bumps, bruises and pulled muscles over the past few years.
PS: Neymar definitely isn’t fat, but look at those cheeks. I mean, I’m sure your aunt would die to pinch those if she ever met him, right? He’s definitely losing track of how much mashed potatoes he should eat at the team lunch.
Well this is depressing
Just Brazilian things. It’s rare for a top Brazilian forward to stay in a top league after 30. All for different reasons but Ronaldo , Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Adriano, and now Neymar.
But Neymar especially was playing tons of games at like 15-16 years old.
That’s so sad. Oct and Fed are cursed
This is so tragic to me, I remember say to myself that he wasn’t injury prone at all before 2018 since he always seemed to bounce back after being clattered all the time, dude was alway in the top 10 most fouled any given year :( His foot never was the same after the first injury
This is so tragic to me, I remember say to myself that he wasn’t injury prone at all before 2018 since he always seemed to bounce back after being clattered all the time, dude was alway in the top 10 most fouled any given year :( His foot never was the same after the first injury
Dude trashed his body and parties too hard.
Absolutely no pity
Normally I don’t say stuff like this, but who wants pity from an American soccer fan bro
I guess at some point his lifestyle and diet have had consequences on his longevity.
People overestimate the impact of diet and lifestyle and underestimate genetics & just plain luck when it comes to injuries. Some people just have extremely resilient bodies and some people people bodies just can’t take the stress.
As a software engineer, I’ve seen people who take frequent breaks, maintain good posture, do yoga etc struggle with RSI and others can sit on a chair for 12 hours with almost no breaks and be completely fine.
He got older and he became more of a target.
He was literally kicked 3 times in a row in that january 2019 injury mentioned in the picture, Ligue 1 is a butchers league.
Insone think he’s injury prone, he just get hit a lot more then then other players. He’s hunted in the field.
Messi gets hit as often or even more and never picked up the same injuries.
That always seemed to be a mystery to me that messi is always so healthy. I would love an expert to chime in as to what the difference is.
Extremely strong Core strength. Ronaldo has it and Messi has it.
In basketball. LeBron james and Steph curry have it too.
Extremely strong Core strength. Ronaldo has it and Messi has it.
Way more than that, lmao. All professional players have insanely strong cores, this is not special and will not be the difference maker to the degree we are seeing in terms of longevity.
In basketball. LeBron james and Steph curry have it too.
Irrelevant, take your sports that nobody cares about outta here.
And Neymar is Brazilian. The refs have different tanks in fouls when the player is Brazilian.
body fortified by years of hgh
Because his body wasn’t producing enough of it like regular people.
Educate yourself.
He’s smaller so people don’t hit as hard. People should have seen Ronaldo in EPL pre Madrid. He was getting hacked so hard.
Messi is blessed in terms of genetics, very professional, and also walks less than the keeper in a lot of matches he participates. His playstyle with nearly 0 defensive duties certainly helped his longevity
Has nothing to do with the fact that he gets brutally tackled constantly.
I literally mentioned 3 factors that help him get injured less even when brutally tackled. Good genetics, professional, and less cumulative fatigue.
His playstyle with nearly 0 defensive duties certainly helped his longevity
He isn’t Haaland, Mbappe or a random 9, he actually plays in the middle of the pitch and falls back consistently. I think the main reason he stayed healthy apart from being professional is because he could just dribble and move faster and more efficiently than anyone else so he just avoided being physically dominated by other players going after his legs.
He walks more than all of those. Messi has been noted to simply stand still or walk since at least 2014, after he got a few pretty bad injuries in a roll (culminating with Barcelona getting destroyed by Bayern Munchen in the UCL with him in the bench). It’s when he went from Gazelle 2012 Messi that sprinted all over the place to his current “energy-saving” form. This hit adds up, the man has run and has been fatigued significantly less than other players of similar age.
The bugger reason is his lack of focus on fitness and partying style, there is no reason he would get more hit than most.
This is so tragic to me, I remember say to myself that he wasn’t injury prone at all before 2018 since he always seemed to bounce back after being clattered all the time, dude was alway in the top 10 most fouled any given year :( His foot never was the same after the first injury
October and February
Halloween and Carnavale
I think there’s some sister birthday thing which was prevalent back in the day
11th of March, so February checks out
Neymar strikes me as the type of person who will completely snap once his football career is over and he has to retire
he’s literally a massive gamer and loves CS:Go, playing poker etc. he has a well balanced love for football as he has tons of other interests outside of the game
Neymar mentally retired years ago
What PSG does to a mf
