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Neymar Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (born 5 February 1992), known as Neymar, is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Sain ...
is a Brazilian professional
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who plays as a
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. Since scoring on his debut for the Brazilian national team against the
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on 10 August 2010, Neymar has gone on to record 77 goals in 124 international appearances, making him Brazil's all-time men's scorer tied with
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; he surpassed
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's total of 62 goals with a
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in a
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match against
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on 14 October 2020. Neymar is also currently the sixth-highest active top scorer in men's international football. Neymar has scored four international hat-tricks, and netted twice in a match (known as a brace) on nine occasions, with his first hat-trick coming in an 8–0 friendly win over
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on 10 September 2012. He has scored nine times against
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, making them the side he has gotten the most goals against; this total includes the four he scored during a single match in October 2015, which made Neymar the youngest player to score four goals in a game for Brazil, at the age of 22. Neymar has scored the majority of his goals in friendlies, with them making up 46 of his overall tally. He has scored five times at the
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and 26 times in FIFA tournaments, which include the
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finals, FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the
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. Neymar's first senior international tournament was the
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, where he scored two goals for Brazil. He played in his first senior FIFA tournament two years later, when he starred for hosts Brazil in the
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. Neymar scored four goals throughout the campaign, including in the
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against
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, helping Brazil to a 3–0 victory. Neymar received the Bronze Shoe for his four goals, and was awarded with the Golden Ball for his standout performances throughout the tournament. Neymar played at his first FIFA World Cup in
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, where he scored four goals, placing himself as the joint-third top scorer of the competition alongside his club teammate
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and
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forward
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. He also scored twice during the
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.


List of goals

:''Brazil score listed first, score column indicates score after each Neymar goal.''


Hat-tricks


Statistics

 


See also

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List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps In men's association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official match appearance for their national team. In total, over 600 players have played in 100 or more international matches. The re ...
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List of men's footballers with 50 or more international goals In total, 76 male footballers to date have scored at least 50 goals with their national team at senior level, according to FIFA documents and RSSSF statistics. Since October 2021, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been also publish ...
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List of most expensive association football transfers The following is a list of most expensive association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records. The first recorded record transfer was of Willi ...
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List of International goals scored by Pelé Pelé was a Brazilian football player who represented the Brazil national football team as a forward from 1957 to 1971. Along with Neymar, he is the all-time joint-top goalscorer for Brazil with 77 international goals, which he scored in 92 ap ...


References


External links

* {{International football statistics Neymar
Neymar Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (born 5 February 1992), known as Neymar, is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Sain ...
Neymar Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (born 5 February 1992), known as Neymar, is a Brazilian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Sain ...