Here’s the net worth, assets, salary and market value of Neymar, the Psg and Brazil striker who lost 1 million euros in an hour playing online casinos.
How large is Neymar net worth? This question is always very topical given that we are talking about one of the highest paid footballers in the world, so much so that the American specialized magazine Forbes in 2022 included him in fourth place among the players who earned the most during the year.
After all, we are talking about the protagonist of the most expensive transfer in football history, with Psg paying out the pharaonic sum of 222 million euros in 2017 to bring the Brazilian from Barcelona to Paris.
In addition to having guaranteed a large salary from the Parisian club, Neymar has also built a sort of economic empire over the years thanks to the many sponsorship contracts signed; however, there are also controversial episodes, such as the million euros lost in an hour playing at an online casino, with a lot of consequent desperate crying - then turned into laughter - all strictly live on Twitch.
So let’s see how much Neymar earns, taking a look not only at the salary received and his current market value, but also at the biography and estimated asset of the Brazilian striker .
Neymar’s biography
Name: Neymar da Silva Santos Junior
Date of birth: February 5, 1992.
Place of birth: Mogi das Cruzes (Brazil).
Height and weight: 175cm, 68kg.
Foot: ambidextrous even if natural right.
Nationality: Brazilian.
Role: striker.
Family: the father is a former footballer as well as his current agent; he has a son with his ex-girlfriend Caroline Dantas.
Team he belongs to: Psg.
Features: striker who loves to act in the external areas of the front of attack, often employed also in the role of second striker; gifted with speed and excellent technique, he has important scoring skills having scored over 350 goals in official matches in his career.
Career: raised in the Santos youth sector in 2013, he was bought for 57 million by Barcelona; in 2017, PSG paid the 222 million release clause in full in order to have him.
Curiosity: with 77 goals he is the record holder together with Pelè for goals scored with the Brazil national team; he appeared in a cameo in the film xXx - The return of Xander Cage and in two episodes of the series Money Heist.
Salary, assets and market value
Neymar is currently linked to Psg by a contract signed in 2021 which will expire in June 2025, with the player also boasting an option to renew for another year .
At the time of his arrival in Paris in 2017, the Brazilian was earning 28.2 million net per season, while now after his renewal with PSG his salary has risen to 36 million a year - which at the gross for Parisians they make over 65 million - or 3 million a month.
In addition to the pharaonic salary received from the PSG, according to an estimate by Forbes the footballer collects 25 million dollars from the various sponsors every year: as regards the technical one, in 2020 Neymar abandoned Nike by signing an agreement with Puma .
Thus, on the web we read that his net worth should be around 200 million dollars while, according to the specialized site Transfermarkt, his current market value would be 70 million euros, less than half of the 180 million indicated at the time of his arrival in Paris.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2023-03-30 13:07:17. Original title: Quanto guadagna Neymar? Stipendio, patrimonio e valore di mercato della stella del Psg