He also improved with the national team, becoming Brazil's captain and the player carrying the fans' hopes for a sixth world title.
"I don't know what my limit is," Neymar said after he surpassed Bebeto as Brazil's fifth-best scorer. "I'm not thinking about surpassing Pele, that's not my goal. My goal is to keep scoring to help the national team and to help my teammates."
It's not only the goals that make Neymar a special player.
He lacks the physical strength that Pele used to have, and also doesn't seem to have the same above-average quick-thinking of the three-time World Cup champion, but Neymar has similar light-footed skills and uses his incredible speed to make up for some of his weaknesses. Like Pele, Ronaldo and Romario, he also has outstanding precision on his finishes.
Neymar does have some advantages over players such as Ronaldo and Romario, who became stars mostly because of their goal-scoring ability. Neymar is not only about scoring goals, he is more of a playmaker, and uses his ball skills and speed to create scoring opportunities for himself and his teammates. Ronaldo used mostly his strength to get past defenders, while Romario was more about using good positioning inside the area and precise strikes.
