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Neymar<\/strong><\/p>\n Neymar is the most fouled player in Europe\u2019s top leagues, according to a survey by BeSoccer Pro<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The company, which specialises in football statistics, reveals that the Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil international has been fouled 1,040 times since 2016.<\/p>\n Neymar\u2019s PSG teammate and Argentina captain Lionel Messi is second in the ranking with 839 fouls, followed by Torino\u2019s Andrea Belotti and Manchester City\u2019s Jack Grealish, who are both at the receiving end of 747 each.<\/p>\n The report looked at official games at club and national teams from the top five European leagues \u2013 England, Germany, Spain, France and Italy.<\/p>\n Neymar\u2019s official site said: \u201cIt\u2019s not just guesswork\u2026 Neymar Jr. is, actually, the player who most suffers fouls in the main European leagues, according to a survey from the statistics company BeSoccer Pro<\/em><\/strong>. The ace suffered 1,040 fouls since 2016\u2026 It\u2019s a lot, right?\u201d<\/p>\n Former Santos and Barcelona star Neymar has come under heavy criticism in the past for his behaviour on the pitch, with memes of the player diving dominating social media sites.<\/p>\n His father and agent, Neymar Santos, has often demanded more respect for his son from referees to protect him from getting injured unnecessarily.<\/p>\n Neymar, who was sidelined for over two months with an ankle injury, returned to play on February 15 in his team\u2019s 1-0 win against Real Madrid in the Champions League round-of-16 opener.<\/p>\n He spoke this week about his special friendship with Messi and their desire to make history at PSG.<\/p>\n \u201cWe get on very well on and off the pitch,\u201d Neymar said of Messi. \u201cNow we\u2019re hoping to make history at Paris Saint-Germain. We\u2019ll see what the future holds. We\u2019re really good friends Leo and me.<\/p>\n \u201cEver since Barcelona we built this friendship. A very strong one. We started talking about playing together again before last year.<\/p>\n \u201cI tried getting back to Barcelona. We tried everything but it didn\u2019t work out. Then he got the chance of coming here and we were able to get him. I\u2019m thrilled that he\u2019s here today. He\u2019s a friend that soccer has given me.\u201d<\/p>\n Messi, meanwhile, is happy to have Neymar once again as a teammate.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very nice to be on the field with the best,\u201d he said. \u201cI was lucky enough to do it for a long time in Barcelona and today I also get to do it in Paris. I\u2019m happy for that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI know [Angel] Di Mar\u00eda from the national team and Ney [Neymar] from Barcelona. I didn\u2019t know Kylian on or off the pitch, but little by little we\u2019re getting to know each other better.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neymar Neymar is the most fouled player in Europe\u2019s top leagues, according to a survey by BeSoccer Pro. The company, which specialises in football statistics, reveals that the Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil international has been fouled 1,040 times since 2016. Neymar\u2019s PSG teammate and Argentina captain Lionel Messi is second in the ranking with 839 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5393,5394,731],"class_list":["post-1002684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fouled","tag-neymar","tag-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}