The Brazilian was encouraged to participate in a challenge proposed by Jack Downer, world champion in this discipline
This week Neymar He had fun while in Qatar with several of his teammates from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) by participating in a duel against the best freestyler in the world. The Brazilian striker, used to making magic with the ball, found himself with a worthy opponent for the challenge and ended up being humiliated.
It is that the 30-year-old striker knew how to amaze the world a long time ago when, with the Santos de Brasil shirt, he used to the fans every weekend to do wonders with the ball, from pipes, hats to bicycles. A whole repertoire of skill that is not usually seen in a professional game. For this reason, Ney wanted to remember old times and decided to face Jack Downer, world champion of Street Panna , a street game in which the objective is to shoot pipes instead of scoring goals.
The British athlete did not take long to ridicule the Brazilian soccer player. After stepping the ball a little from one side to the other, while his rival kept his feet together to avoid the catastrophe, he saw a gap, took advantage of a quick movement and managed to make the ball pass between Neymar’s legs to cause the laughter of those present to explode and the ovation for his performance .
The PSG player is usually the one who throws the pipes in the matches of the French team and the Brazilian team, but this time it was him who suffered one. Luckily, the former Barcelona player took it well and joined in the laughter, unlike his rivals, who usually kick him hard to stop him.
Downer is a street soccer star, whose modalities are 3 vs. 3 and 5 vs. 5, but his Street Panna World Champion title put him in a unique position. Thanks to this, he has met great world football figures such as Paul Pogba, Neymar and Kai Hvertz as well as legends such as Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard . He could have thrown a pipe at all of them.