World Cup winner with Brazil says Neymar "is bigger than Messi" | OneFootball

Four-time world champion with the Brazilian National Team in 1994, Cafu shared his opinion on Neymar’s stature within his generation of players. In the former athlete’s view, the Santos player is “greater than Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.”

“From my point of view, Neymar is greater than Messi. Maybe Messi’s commitment is different, but among these recent generations, Neymar is greater than everyone. Greater than Messi, Cristiano (Ronaldo), Mbappé…,” Cafu stated in an interview with Podpah.

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Cafu believes that, in terms of technical quality, Neymar is superior to his contemporaries. However, he acknowledges that when it comes to commitment, the Peixe’s number 10 falls behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

“In terms of skill and technical quality, he surpasses either of them,” he opined.

In Search of the World Cup

Living with the expectation of being on the National Team for the 2026 World Cup, Neymar found himself a few steps further from making coach Carlo Ancelotti’s final list after being left out of the squad for the friendlies against France and Croatia, on March 26 and 31, respectively.

On Wednesday night, the player was on the field in Santos’ 2-1 defeat to Internacional, and scored a goal from the penalty spot.

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