The real Ronaldo is the best brazilian player since Pele.

In any case, if you ask the 160.000 brazilian fans, as ESPN Brazil asked to take a position as to which of the samba nation’s many football heroes who have been the best since the legend.

And while the first place to ‘il Fenomeno’ may not come as the big surprise, so was the lack of a second superstar on the list’s top-10 quite eye-catching.

the World’s most expensive footballer, Neymar Jr, ended up as no. 11 in the vote, and he was thus surpassed by names like Ronaldinho, disappointing end, Rivaldo, Zico and Kaka.

He was even surpassed by the category ‘Others’ which covers over the players, which was not mentioned by name in the vote.

Now, says PSG star according to ESPN, that the low placement on the list does not bother him. In fact, he might not understand what to use such a list to the.

– the Whole idea of to rank the best brazilian players, in the time after Pele, makes no sense to me.

– For me they are all important. They created all along history. They played all their own way, and they were all important at one time or another, he says.

Neymar turned in the summer of 2017, up and down on the norm for players, when he switched to PSG from Barcelona for the insane 222 million euros. Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP

Whether the message had been another, if the man with the ever-changing hair had come further up the list, you can of course only speculate about.

But Neymar Jr. is not a man with lack of faith in their own abilities, and in contrast to the majority of the other players on the list he has still the opportunity to improve its ranking in the future.

– I create my own story. I am 27 and have a few years left of my career. It is obvious that I have achieved amazing things, but I want to achieve much more, he says.

Neymar is sitting currently out with an injury, which he sustained at the end of January and is not expected to be ready to be managed between PSG and Manchester United in the Champions League, which is played in Paris the 6. march.

the Brazilian has this season scored 13 goals in 13 matches for his French employer in Ligue 1, while it has been for five scores in six matches in the Champions League.

the List of the best brazilian players since Pele, according to ESPN Brazil

1: Ronaldo

2: Ronaldinho

3: disappointing end to

4: Zico

5: Rivaldo

6: Sócrates

7: Kaká

8: Others

9: Falcão

10: Careca