Cleber Xavier sees Neymar with double function in Santos and Lode Ace: “An example for others”

Cleber Xavier sees Neymar with double function in Santos and Lode Ace: “An example for others”


The coach reveals that he will wear a shirt of 10 as shipowners and “false 9” and highlights the player’s dedication after the victory over Flamengo in Vila Belmiro

Santos returned to the field with Vitória, Wednesday evening, after the interruption of Brazilirão caused by the Club World Cup. And he had Neymar to solve the complicated game against the leader of Flamengo: 1-0, with a star of the star. At the end of the game, the technician Cleber Xavier He did not spare congratulations to the player and designed a double function for T -shirt 10 after the season.

The coach revealed that the striker can act as a classic guard, a typical 10 shirt, as a striker, the famous “false 9”. “I will use Neymar in both ways,” Xavier warned, without indicating when he chooses a position for the next Brazilirão rounds.

The double function will be possible, according to the technician, due to Neymar’s physical growth in recent weeks. “First of all, (I wanted) to speak of its quality that has reached the physical part for its dedication. He is doing the job. The joy that this group of athletes is guiding, with the aim of helping us and then returning to the national team.”

For Cleber Xavier, the attacker became an “example” of dedication in the cast. “It is an example for others. It was not just a physical game, without the ball that ran a lot, he helped a lot,” said the coach, accustomed to working with the star from the Brazilian selection times, when he was the assistant assistant of Tite.

Santos returns to the field on Saturday to make a duel from San Paolo with Missol, away from home. The technician, however, avoided confirming Neymar’s presence among the owners. “We will be careful. We will have a difficult sequence, with Saturday and Wednesday. We will have to deal with some situation. The definition of the team that I will do on Friday.”

Source: Terra

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