FCB1987
Banned
Since I posted a first post about this, once again: Messi and Neymar played at Barca.
They both have awesome skills.
Messi is even better.
Yet, no one (or rare) guys are kicking Messi.
Yet, everyone is kicking Neymar.
So, my point was that they are NOT kicking him due to skills.
But because of a personal 1 vs 1 behavior/attitude/provoking.
Again, this video has very LITTLE with to do his footballing skills and shows WHY everyone is fighting with him.
For me, he is a tier 1 of the most annoying top footballers, and the most hated ones, together with Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Muller.
On the other hand, Ronaldinho was dribbling all the time.
Why the opponents didn't hate and kick him?
= because he had a likeable personality, he wasn't getting into fights and he was not disrespectful in any way.
On the other hand, then you have Neymar, fighting with 3 defenders, a ref, 1 fan and at least 1 teammate on almost every single match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjDMhluoPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln1SK5D7qF0
It's true that Neymar provokes more and gets kicked more for that, but almost every skillful player has showboated at some point, so trying to justify kicking players for that is a dangerous road to go down.
Here's a clip of Dembele provoking/showboating last season. If it becomes acceptable to assault skillful players for stuff like this, then a lot of the flair and excitement in the game will disappear
https://youtu.be/qFohA_rx77Q