"Real Madrid and Barcelona are two big teams, but the last one has always been in my heart." This was the response of the Brazilian Neymar to a question: Why did Barca prefer the Royal?
Before Neymar joined the Catalan team, he was on Radar Merengue, and the latter strived to annex him until he visited the Bernabeu when he was thirteen years old. But why is the Brazilian international not joining the Spanish capital team?
In 2005, Neymar visited Madrid with his father, who is also his business manager, met with phenomenon Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, and had lunch with Robinho.
Real wanted to join Neymar for the youth team, while finding work for his father and a home for his family, and when he returned to Brazil, the issue of his move to Real was almost settled.
However, the Santos team - to which Neymar was playing - was not ready to allow its jeweler to move to the Spanish capital, so the Brazilian team wanted to stay as long as possible and lead it to glory and achieve titles.
More than that, he launched a fundraising campaign to collect the value of the riyal's bid for Neymar, and within a short period the money was raised and Neymar stayed in Santos, leading the team to several local and continental titles.
Los Blancos did not give up, as he tried to annex Neymar in 2009, and also months before he joined Barca in 2013, but all attempts by the "white" team were unsuccessful.