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#2 He is a proven performer on the big stages
Over the last decade, Neymar has played his way into unarguably being considered one of the best players in the world.
The 27-year-old is a bonafide world class forward who has performed on the biggest stages and while his sojourn at PSG and underperformance at the last World Cup might paint a different picture, it takes nothing away from the fact on his day, Neymar is one of the best players of his generation and a potential Ballon d'Or winner.
With 60 goals from just 97 international appearances, Neymar is the 4th highest goalscorer in the illustrious history of the Brazilian national team and it is only a matter of time before he breaks Pele's long-standing record of 77, while his career total of 352 goals from 564 matches comes at a very impressive ratio of 0.62 goals per match.
Moving further, he won the Bronze Boot at the 2014 World Cup with four goals and has also scored in the finals of both the FIFA Confederations Cup as well as the Champions League and showed great composure to slot home the winning penalty in the final of the 2016 Olympics football tournament on home soil to captain Brazil to the one elusive Gold medal they had not captured.
It goes without saying that Neymar is no stranger to performing on the biggest stages and as there is no stage bigger than the Champions League in club football, Neymar's return could help propel Barcelona back to the top.
