The club that Neymar Jr would join and that surprises everyone
Neymar and Al Hilal
Neymar Jr is experiencing the worst season of his career. A season that he ended quickly due to an injury that will keep him out until mid-2024. However, the footballer has a current contract with Al Hilal and everything indicates that he intends to fulfill it. Despite this, the team that Neymar Jr would like to play for once his relationship with the Saudi Pro League team ends is revealed.
Neymar Jr. thinks about one day returning to Santos FC, the club where he trained as a player and became a professional. This is what Marcelo Teixeira claims, who on Saturday won the elections for the presidency of the São Paulo club, which he will preside over for the third time in its history. It turns out that one of the first measures that Teixeira adopted was to announce that he was retiring the ’10’ shirt for as long as the club remains in Serie B of the Brasileirao.
Neymar is an idol that remains in the memory of many Santos fans in Brazil. The leader argued this decision as a way to protect Pelé’s legacy, so that the name of the best player the club never had was not associated with the darkest sporting stage in the history of the entity. It must be remembered that until now, the ‘Peixe’ had never lost the category, an honor that now only Sao Paulo and Flamengo maintain in Brazil.
What else did the president of Santos say about Neymar?
And as a result of this decision, Neymar contacted Teixeira, who was the president who shielded him and prevented him from going to Real Madrid when he was 13 years old. “On Sunday Neymar called me and told me: ‘President, since you have retired the 10 shirt until you return to the first division, then do the same with the 11 until I return here,” said the Santista president for the 2024 triennium. 26.