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10 Football
Neymar
How Neymar plays at Santos now, and the Brazil scoring record that defines his international career.
Overview
Neymar receives on the half turn whenever he can, letting the ball roll across his body so his first touch already faces goal. From the left or through the middle, he slows a defender with a feint, then releases early rather than dribbling into a crowd, and drifts infield to combine with midfield runners. Off the ball he walks, waits, then bursts into the box.
He is thirty-four and back at Santos, the Brazilian club he joined in 2025, where he plays in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. He has scored seventeen goals in forty-one appearances for Santos. His Brazil record stands at eighty goals and one hundred and thirty caps.
Career at Santos
All competitions · Wikidata, fetched 2026-09-11Club career
Questions fans ask
He has been capped 130 times by Brazil and scored 80 international goals.
No, he plays his club football for Santos F.C. in Brazil and represents the Brazil national side.
His current spell with Santos began in 2025, and he had earlier played there from 2009 to 2013.
He operates as an attacking midfielder or a forward, and wears the number 10 shirt.
The shirt he wears is number 10.