When Legends Were Asked About Neymar — Transcript
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- 0:00Neymar. I'm gonna say Neymar.
- 0:03Neymar. Neymar.
- 0:45>> [music]
- 0:52>> Toughest ever [music] opponent.
- 0:57Oh, Neymar. Yeah. Hardest player ever
- 0:59against. Come on. Why Neymar? Because I
- 1:00said you played against so many top
- 1:01players.
- 1:02>> Yeah, I there could have been a few. I
- 1:04think I've said it before in a load
- 1:06[music] of interviews. Manet, Hazard,
- 1:08>> you know, I just feel Neymar, Venicious
- 1:11Junior, Sbappe. Um, but Neymar just
- 1:14brings [music] something where nothing's
- 1:16ever the same,
- 1:17>> right? Okay.
- 1:17>> Where you can watch certain [music]
- 1:18clips on other players and you know the
- 1:20movements or you know the patterns where
- 1:23you think Neymar plays [music] like him
- 1:24in the school playground. It's hard to
- 1:25predict.
- 1:26>> So yeah. So, so you could watch as many
- 1:28videos as you want, but [music] on the
- 1:29day he could come up with something
- 1:30completely different. And I think that's
- 1:32what makes him, you know, stand out from
- 1:34from the rest.
- 1:39[music]
- 1:45But I'm going to say Neymar. [music]
- 1:46>> Neymar or Kevin de Bruna.
- 1:48>> I'm going to say Neymar.
- 1:50>> Um Neymar or Martin Odigard.
- 1:52>> Neymar.
- 1:53>> Neymar or David Silva.
- 1:55>> Neymar.
- 1:55>> Neymar. Or me Özil.
- 1:57>> Neymar.
- 1:58>> Neymar or Zinedine Zidan.
- 2:00>> Um
- 2:02Neymar. Neymar's the winner.
- 2:11forever.
- 2:46Yeah.
- 2:57Yeah.
- 2:58>> Is there a player that when you line up
- 3:01against him for another team he's got
- 3:03that sort of skill and you think oh god
- 3:05here we go. I would say one of the best
- 3:07in like dribbling in in that way is
- 3:09probably Neymar that I played against.
- 3:11He's
- 3:12>> insane insane technique to dribble away
- 3:15from from players and he's quick. He's
- 3:19he's mobility is amazing. So he's
- 3:22unbelievable
- 3:31athletes or non-athletes as well, you
- 3:33know. Is there anyone at the moment who
- 3:35who inspires you?
- 3:37>> Uh Neymar as well. I mean when I was
- 3:39younger I used to before every game
- 3:42watch Neymar YouTube videos [music]
- 3:44skills and goals video which was quite
- 3:46funny.
- 3:47>> Who is the most talented rival player
- 3:49you've played against this season? Now
- 3:51obviously you played against some
- 3:52unbelievable footballers but is there
- 3:54one player that stood out that when
- 3:55[music] you got on the pitch you thought
- 3:57this guy's got it? Honestly, I'd have to
- 3:59say Neymar in the first the first leg in
- 4:02the first half.
- 4:04[sighs] I was a bit starruck at times.
- 4:07Um just some of the little flicks he was
- 4:09doing and things, but but yeah, you
- 4:11know, I had to keep professional and and
- 4:14yeah, I'd have to say Neymar is
- 4:15unbelievable what he does every every
- 4:17game and he decides a game on his own
- 4:19sometimes. Um yeah, one of the best
- 4:21players in the world.
- 4:22>> Yeah, I mean what a player Neymar is.
- 4:25>> Yeah, it can get frustrating definitely.
- 4:26Um sometimes it's very hard to even get
- 4:29near him. Um
- 4:34>> there is there much is there more talent
- 4:36than Neymar?
- 4:38>> I don't know. I I don't know if this
- 4:40exists. Uh more talent [music] more
- 4:42natural more natural um easy looking um
- 4:48talent than Nay. I don't think it's
- 4:50possible. He he combines pretty much
- 4:53everything. the speed, dribblings,
- 4:55passing, [music] assisting, finishing,
- 4:58uh physical physical ability. [music]
- 5:01I think this is the absolutely whole
- 5:04package.
- 5:06[music]
- 5:14[music]
- 5:24>> [music]
- 5:31>> I remember when I show Santos in that
- 5:33moment. And I show some clips 10 or 15
- 5:34clips on [music] action for Neymar and I
- 5:37saw I remember I tell him this is the
- 5:38king of Santos and all the players was
- 5:42the the the you know the the mouth open
- 5:46[music] say oh my god what a player and
- 5:49um
- 5:51is is a joy to watch as a spectator I
- 5:54enjoy it a lot every time it's nice to
- 5:56watch his plasticity but not just the
- 5:58effectiveness the personality he has in
- 6:01his shoulders Brazil you Number 10 from
- 6:03[music] Brazil is not easy to work.
- 6:05>> Best skill.
- 6:07>> Neymar.
- 6:08>> That was quick.
- 6:10>> Yes. When it comes to skills, there's
- 6:12not many better than Neymar.
- 6:23[laughter] Poor poor.
- 6:53>> [music]
- 6:55>> how much of his talent and can you just
- 6:57get by by just having pure talent?
- 6:59[music] You know, I watched Neymar
- 7:00recently and I'm going, "Wow, this guy
- 7:01is incredibly talented player."
- 7:04>> Um, but he will have his own version of
- 7:06the hard work [music] and what it takes
- 7:07behind the scenes as well. Won't look
- 7:09like mine, won't look like everyone
- 7:10else's. He's an outrageously [music]
- 7:11talented boy. But um a lot of us don't
- 7:15have that outrageous talent and a lot of
- 7:17us have to put in lots of different
- 7:18types of work around it.
- 7:31>> [music]
- 7:35>> My
- 7:42Spectacch.
- 8:40We saw a lovely moment with you and
- 8:44Neymar. And I know you have spoken about
- 8:47him as an inspiration.
- 9:04>> [music]
- 9:04>> How old were you when you first met him?
- 9:19Did he have any advice for you? What did
- 9:22he say to you?
- 9:39Do you get nervous on the red carpet or
- 9:42on stage? It is very different to a
- 9:44football pitch.
- 9:58Who is the best player you played
- 9:59[music] against? Neymar. One of the best
- 10:01players of the generation I grew up
- 10:03watching. If it wasn't for Messi and
- 10:04Ronaldo, he'd probably have a few ball
- 10:06doors. So, yeah, just insane player, can
- 10:09do everything going forward and one of
- 10:11my favorite players growing [music] up.
- 10:12>> And how did you prepare when you were
- 10:13about to play against him? You just got
- 10:15to hope maybe it's not his day and pray
- 10:18maybe before the game that God's on your
- 10:20side that day. And uh but yeah, there's
- 10:22not much you can do. You just got to try
- 10:24to work as a team and limit his his
- 10:26space and opportunities around him.
- 10:27>> I love what I do, but I suffer when I
- 10:30play football. If you see [music] Neymar
- 10:32playing, you see a player that is
- 10:34enjoying football, he plays the same way
- 10:37on the pitch and with their friends. I
- 10:39[music] cannot do it.
- 10:40>> The toughest opponent you've ever come
- 10:42up against? Um I say made Neymar in the
- 10:46final really
- 10:47>> last 25 minutes it was my midfielder
- 10:51[music] smashing at him like pushing
- 10:52kicking at him my center back trying to
- 10:54graph him like that and we [music] just
- 10:56kept running towards my goal like mate
- 10:59slow down
- 10:59>> someone stop him slide down he just
- 11:01sliding into Rich Harrison and I had to
- 11:03make a save but mate we could not stop
- 11:06[music] Neymar for 25 minutes in the
- 11:08final he was unstoppable
- 11:10>> I love that the best player I I ever
- 11:12play against I I think is for me [music]
- 11:15and just for me is Neymar. For me, he's
- 11:17the complete player. The the the match
- 11:19that I remember it was during the
- 11:21preseason Barcelona against Juventus and
- 11:23he just like [music] killed us. He he
- 11:25played like really good and he was like
- 11:26under pressure because all the people
- 11:28was talking about him. He definitely
- 11:29[music] played the best game I ever seen
- 11:31about one player.
- 11:33>> He's Neymar. He's doing
- 11:36things that even my he's my Maximleian,
- 11:39my big son. It's his favorite player. He
- 11:41likes to have his shoes and that and
- 11:43Neymar is all over my house. So that I'm
- 11:46happy for him and I think he's a good
- 11:48[music] example for football players and
- 11:50the children because that that is kind
- 11:53of player that the children wants to be.
- 11:57They're copying his thing of doing
- 11:58[music] the things and
- 12:00and he's doing a lot for the football
- 12:03and he's a he's a little bit like a
- 12:05showman.
- 12:06>> Which player would you like to be
- 12:07Argentinian?
- 12:08Neymar.
- 12:10>> Most talented player that you played
- 12:12against?
- 12:27have Neymar and Messi of course uh who I
- 12:32always watched videos from and as part
- 12:36of my routine to watch videos and then
- 12:38train them. Always loved Neymar Santos
- 12:42Neyo Barcel any Neymo really.
- 12:45>> [clears throat]
- 12:45>> Yeah, I grew up in Barcelona. So, yeah,
- 12:48for me,
- 12:49>> Messi is best.
- 12:52>> But in my eyes, Neymar
- 12:56was my idol since I was young.
- 12:59>> And uh I remember when I was 12, [music]
- 13:02I did a commercial with him and my eyes
- 13:04were like, "Wow, this is my idol. I have
- 13:06him here in front of me and I hope so
- 13:08one day to play with him." And that
- 13:11dream became reality. I play with my
- 13:13idol at 70 years old. [music] So that
- 13:16kid dreaming all day to playing with
- 13:18him, seeing every day in the in the
- 13:20comeo, going to the pitch, screaming his
- 13:22name, celebrating his goals. Well, yeah,
- 13:24one day I'm besides him playing with
- 13:26[music] him. So that that was as well
- 13:29like a kind of achievement for me.
- 13:31>> Mhm.
- 13:31>> Because was the little chubby inside of
- 13:33me enjoying that, you know. So for me in
- 13:36my eyes was Neymar.
- 13:39Yeah. The best as well. Foreign
- 13:51[music]
- 14:02[music]
- 14:14Hey, it's Neymar. Watch my other videos.
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