Brasilia: "A bola (the ball in Brazilian) is like the most jealous woman in the world. If you do not treat her well, she will not love you and she can even hurt you. I love her to bits," Neymar said to his biographer Luca Caioli for his first authentic biography in English, "Neymar". Caioli, an Italian journalist, simply put it as, “A bola has always been his love, an object of desire.”

Neymar celebrates his second goal against Cameroon at Estadio Nacional in Brasilia on Monday. PIC/Getty Images.