Neymar's return to the Santos Childhood Club has been confirmed, with the Brazilian side sharing an emotional video, dedicated to Pelé, to announce his firm.
The striker, who won £ 130 million a year with Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia, traveled to his homeland on Friday to end the agreement and sensational return.
It was in Santos where Neymar first captivated the public soccerism at the beginning of his career, breaking into the scene as the next superstar that emerged from the Brazilian coasts.
After helping to guide the club to a title of the Copa Libertadores in 2011, he left Santos in 2013 to follow a race in Barcelona and during the summer he talked about his desire to return one day.
That day he has reached the end after Al-Hilal finished his, and the 32-year-old played only seven games for the club since he joined in August 2023 due to a LCA injury, scoring a goal.
The 32 -year -old agreed a six -month contract with Santos, with the aim of rejuiring his career and ensuring a place in the Brazilian team for the 2026 World Cup, and Santos went to social networks to confirm the news with a 79 seconds. video.
Neymar's return to Santos has been confirmed in a shared emotional video on social networks
The video was dedicated to Pelé (left): Brazilian Great and Neymar formed a strong relationship
The £ 130 million a year of Neymar with Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia were finished after playing only seven games
In the video, Neymar could be heard in Portuguese, with English subtitles added at the bottom of the video.
It began, as a throne with the name of Pelé and an eternal symbol was shown: 'Hello, king! I miss you a lot!
'I was a child when I got here full of dreams. Vila Belmiro welcomed me, and that's where I grew up and I was happy. Santos revealed to the world, but my heart never ceased to be black and white.
I remember everything I experienced with all of you. Every moment. A vivid, happy and eternal memory. A memory that I don't just want to remember, I want to live it again. And I want to live with you again, as it always was.
'King Pelé, your wish is my command. The launched and the crown are still yours. Because you are eternal. But number 10 …
'It will be an honor to use the sacred shirt that represents both Santos and the world.
'I promise to do everything possible to continue honoring your legacy, King. “I'm going but I'll be back,” you remember? Well … the prince has returned.
As the video is reproduced, Neymar older clips were shown for Santos in the background, with the end of the video with the reading of writing: 'I will return'. He and Pelé formed a close relationship, with the latter who died in 2022.
The video presented a young Neymar clips playing for Santos and a throne for Pelé
Fans took to the streets to celebrate Neymar's return the day he was finally confirmed
A striker's mural was painted, showing his face with a crown in the head before the movement
Neymar resorted to social networks to share his entourage in his private jet to Brazil
He published a series of Instagram stories, subtitling one: “After 12 years, we are back brother.”
Neymar began his professional career with Santos in 2009 and was fundamental to help them a triumph of the Copa Libertadores in 2011, scoring crucially in the second section of the last
Neymar shared images of him and his entourage in his private jet to Brazil as the confirmation of his return approached. Fans gathered in the street to celebrate, with a striker's mural with a crown also painted.
He published a series of Instagram stories that document his trip, subtitling one: “After 12 years, we are back brother.”
Santos is one of the greatest clubs in Brazil that has won eight national titles, 22 regional leagues in Sao Paulo and three crowns of the Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of the Champions League.
The great Brazilians such as Pelé, Carlos Alberto, Coutinho, Zito and many more have adorned the Vila Belmiro over the years, and in their apogee of the 60s regularly defeated the European opposition of elite in global tours.
They have fallen in more difficult times in recent years, suffering descent to the second level in 2023, but they recovered last year as B -series champions for the first time.
Neymar has similarly endured difficulties in recent times, with his departure from the PSG in the summer of 2023 demonstrating to be unfortunate.
It can be the top scorer of all the time in Brazil, but the last years of his career have been full of various degrees of injuries and not with the same success he enjoyed during his best in Barcelona.
Physical conditioning problems were not more frequent than during their disastrous period in Saudi Arabia, with an early LCA injury in its movement of £ 77.6 million to Al-Hilal, limiting the Brazilian legend so that it would only handle 428 minutes of action in action in action in action 18 months.
Neymar achieved only 428 minutes of action in Al-Hilal in seven games, scoring only once
After he and the Saudi giants chose to separate, Neymar agreed 90 percent of your image rights.
The structure for this agreement reflects the successful agreement of its previous mandate in Santos between 2010 and 2013.
At that time, Neymar obtained a base salary of £ 40,683 (R $ 300,000) but took home around £ 429,147 (R $ 3.3 million) monthly, thanks to retaining 90 percent of his image rights.
The club believes that, with the advances in the digital panorama, Neymar's profits could now reach up to £ 819,433 (R $ 6 million) per month.
His move to Santos is anything but a treatment made, with the Brazilian giants who are said to be