Neymar: "Winning the Champions League with PSG would be history"

As offensive on the grounds of Lisbon as in the media. On the eve of the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, Neymar gave an exclusive interview to the British tabloid Daily Star. During this interview, the 28-year-old Auriverde star loudly asserts his ambitions. And they have lived up to its performance since the start of this Lisbon Final 8, that is to say very high.

Arrived in Paris in the summer of 2017 against a check for 222 million euros, Neymar had missed, for the past two years, the club's capital matches in the prestigious competition due to injuries. At his best this year, he wants to help the club land - finally - its first star. And offer a nice gift for the 50 years of PSG.

“Winning the Champions League is special, I know,” says the Parisian maestro who won the competition with Barcelona in 2015. But winning it with PSG would be even more so, because it would be going down in history - and that ' is exactly what I came here to do. "

After eliminating Atalanta Bergamo (2-1) in the quarter-finals and then Leipzig (3-0) in the half, PSG sees a monument of European football stand in front of it with Bayern Munich (5 Champions Leagues to its name) in 10 finals). Obviously an additional motivation for the Ney.

"I have never played so well since I arrived in Paris"

“The semi-final was a very good performance, but nobody remembers who won the semi-finals,” said Mbappé's accomplice in the Paris attack. Bayern will be a very big test, but we will be ready. They have a lot of good players, but we are also at a high level, and I feel like I have never played so well since I arrived in Paris. "

“This is where we want to be,” he added. Investors have a big project, and being considered the best in Europe is part of that project. We've never been as close as we are today, but we need to stay focused. "

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A final success that could allow him to finally invite himself to the table of the greatest and to register his name on the list of the Golden Ball ... but not before the end of 2021 (the vote was canceled this year due to the crisis sanitary). “Messi and Ronaldo have of course dominated the Golden Ball for the past ten years, they were not playing on this planet. It would be an honor to win it too. But it comes from what you accomplish on the pitch and your contributions to the team's victories. So that's what I'm focusing on. Everything else will fall into place. "