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By: EFE Posted Jul 13, 2023, 10:47 am EDT
The ex-footballer Juninho Paulistaex-coordinator of the Brazilian team, stated that Neymar seeks “privileges” when he is concentrated with the Canarinhasomething in his “normal” opinion, since he is the “best player” on the team.
“He comes to the Brazilian team and is humanly normal, because he is at the same level as those players (by the Argentine Lionel Messi and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo), to try some kind of privilege”Juninho said in an interview with the ‘ge’ portal.
Asked about the type of benefits, he replied that Paris Saint-Germain striker demands “silly things that don’t hurt” the operation of the template, without offering more details.
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“Then it’s up to us to show him that some situations are okay. Others, no. In most cases, it will do what all players do.“, he clarified.
However, Juninho rejected the “lying” criticism that insinuated that Neymar commanded the team that Adenor Leonardo Bachi ‘Tite’ directed at the time, who left the bench of Brazil after losing in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 against Croatia.
Likewise, he denied problems of a disciplinary nature with shirt 10 during that stage and assured that It was “always” “very calm” to deal with him.
“That also has a lot of our merit. The generation is different from the previous one, it’s different from mine, it’s not ‘not because’, there has to be a foundation“, he stated when explaining the reasons that led them to veto the presence of family and friends in the concentration hotels.
Likewise, he reinforced that the ex-player of Santos and Barcelona “He always tried to encourage and show what he thought” in the meetings with the technical commission, as well as 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.
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