IT WAS LIONEL MESSI WHO HELPED NEYMAR TO SETTLE AT BARCELONA.

Neymar has admitted and is all praise for Lionel Messi, who was entirely responsible for letting the Brazilian footballer Neymar to settle down soon at Barcelona. When Neymar joined Barcelona from the Brazilian club Santos, at the early age of 21 years only. Everything did not go to plan for Neymar , as he was not getting his best football on the pitch for his new club Barcelona. One day Lionel Messi saw Neymar crying like a small baby , in the dressing room. Lionel Messi lovingly took the hand of Neymar and told him to get himself together he should be strong and play his natural game , just as he played his game at Santos. Neymar was very grateful for the support shown by such a great footballer like Lionel Messi, for a 21 year old new boy at the big club. Lionel Messi is quite aware that when he joined the LA MASSIA , THE CASTLE , the youth academy of Barcelona, from Rosario in Argentina , he too would sit in a corner and hardly ever speak during his first year in Spain with Barcelona But then it was the regular visits to the LA Massia by Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez , who were by then playing for Barcelona who showed the youngster Lionel Messi needed at that time