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French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra sees “frustration” in Neymar’s statements in which the Brazilian star tells that both he and his then partner, the Argentine Lionel Messi, lived through “hell” at Paris Saint Germain (PSG).
Asked this Monday in an interview with the French station Sud Radio about Neymar’s wordsOudéa-Castéra pointed out that he interprets them as that these “two exceptional champions” are “unhappy” about their time at the club from the French capital.
Specifically, he explained, they are “frustrated for not having shone more in Paris, particularly in the Champions League.”
For this reason, he believes that behind what Neymar said there is “the frustration of a champion”.
Neymar arrived in Paris in 2017 with the most expensive signing in the history of football, more than 200 million dollars, but during those six years the club, owned by the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, has not achieved what has been its main objective, winning the Champions League.
An objective that was not achieved either with the hiring of Messi in 2021, coming as the Brazilian from Barcelona, where he had spent his entire professional career, riddled with triumphs.
In an interview released this Sunday in Brazil, Neymar said that both he and Messi “lived through hell” in Paris. The reason is that “we were there to give our best, to be champions, to try to make history, that’s why we played together again. We gathered there so we could make history. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it.”
Neymar, who has just joined Saudi club Al Hilal, said he and Lionel Messi lived through “hell” at PSG.
During an interview with the Brazilian program Esporte Espectacular released this Sunday, the striker made the statement after being asked how he had felt about the triumph of Messi and Argentina in the World Cup in Qatar.
“I felt very happy for the year he had, but at the same time very sad, because he lived both sides of the coin: he went to heaven with the Argentine team, he won everything in recent years and he lived through hell with Paris. Both he and I live through hell,” said the Brazilian star.
“We were bored because we weren’t there just because. We were there to give our best, to be champions, to try to make history, that’s why we played together again. We gathered there so we could make history. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it,” he added.
Neymar defended Messi over his controversial departure from PSG in which fans booed him in his last matches.
“Anyone who knows him knows it, he is a guy who trains, who fights, If he loses, he gets angry, and he was unfairly accused from my point of view,” he emphasized.
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