Icon Neyman Inspires Locals

Neymar, an icon where he grew up, inspires as a role model and is on whom the Brazilian relies in chasing a sixth World Cup triumph. The star's face beams out from a huge poster advertising a housing project not far from the Instituto Neymar Jr foundation in the port city of Santos, where he made his name in the Brazilian league before Barcelona lured him away last year. In the district where he grew up and which remains home to his grandmother, children ...