ANDER HERRERA: “Neymar was dancing like it was just another Tuesday, and I couldn’t even look at the trophy.”
“Before the 2020 Champions League final between PSG and Bayern, anxiety hit me so hard that my mind started inventing pain. I felt injured when I wasn’t, the pressure was eating me alive, I couldn’t sleep, and having the trophy right there in front of me paralyzed me. My body was screaming: ‘You can’t take it anymore.’
And while I was in that mental hole, Neymar walked into the locker room moving to the beat of the music, headphones on, smiling, like we were about to play a friendly. I looked at him and thought: ‘How can he be so calm?’ I avoided the trophy like it would burn me, and he, seeing me, grabbed me and said: ‘Look at it, brother, it’s for us. Believe it.’ He made me face the trophy, laugh, breathe, release the tension. For him, it was part of the psychological battle.
That night I understood that every player deals with pressure in their own way. There’s no perfec
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