This Blog is to discuss some Famous players in the sporting world / Some background information on those said players and also some of their career highlights

1. Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (Football)

 Neymar is a Brazilian born football star who kicked off his professional career with his hometown club; Santos. He first made his appearance for the club at the young age of 17,  and after a successful four years at his hometown club scoring 54 goals in a 103 appearances his senior career as a footballer was about to take a new and exciting twist, and due to his popularity over in Brazil fans of Neymar deemed him "The next Pele", which is far from an understatement.

After his successful spell at Santos Neymar shortly joined footballing giants FC Barcelona for a fee of  €57 million in the summer of 2013 and ever since then he has been showing his talents not only for club but for country also, scoring  59 goals in a 102 appearances for Barcelona and an impressive 49 goals in 73 games for his country Brazil.

Neymar has had a variety of success over the years most notably in the 2016 summer Olympics as Neymar's deciding penalty secured Brazil their first ever gold medal in Men's football.



2. Michael Johnson (Athletics)

(Video courtesy of the Official Olympics YouTube channel)

This video shows the highlight of Johnson's career when he ran the 200m & 400m in the 1996 Olympics in gold shoes and broke the record for both track events.

Johnson born in 1967 (aged 49), has always had a passion for track events, he even began his career at the early age of 10 running competitively for his school breaking both the 200m and 400m school record his first time on the track. His professional career kicked off at the 1996 Altlanta Olympics, and as seen by the video (above) he broke the world record in style by wearing golden shoes, this to date his greatest achievement in his career.