The year-end Neymarpalooza that shocks Brazil
With measures tightened in the largest states in Brazil by the numbers of the pandemic, Neymar organized a party in Rio de Janeiro to celebrate New Year’s Eve that goes on until Friday morning.
Prohibition of movement between municipalities throughout the continental territory between the 31st and the 4th of January, curfews throughout the country from 11pm, curfews between the 1st and 3rd of January throughout the country including risky counties that are not the highest level. If at Christmas there was still some openness on the part of the government so that families could spend the season with the family within the common sense of avoiding unreasonable agglomerations of the time and complying with the already known sanitary rules, the New Year’s Eve will now have much tighter rules in order to avoid another sudden rise in the number of new cases of infections by Covid-19 or even a third wave, with immediate impact on the pressure of hospitalizations in the infirmary or ICU. This is the reality in Portugal next week. This is a reality that it has nothing to do with the “Neymar country”.
Out of the options of PSG (other than Thomas Tuchel, fired on Christmas Eve and still without official confirmation of termination or successor) due to injury, after a hard entry by compatriot Thiago Mendes in the game against Lille, the striker traveled to Brazil to spend a few days of vacation with the family. So far, although some clubs do not allow this year to be like this during this period, everything is normal. The problem is even the international’s plans to spend the end of the year. Among the scandal, there is already talk of a Neymarpalooza, a nickname that recovers the media festival of Lollapalooza that, like so many others, did not take place in 2020.
According to the Brazilian press, the player is organizing a five-day party to celebrate his entry in 2021 at the mansion he has in Rio de Janeiro. Or rather, in a place attached to the house, in Mangaratiba, which will be built only for the occasion, in a basement, and with sound insulation so as not to disturb the neighbors. Some known details: about 500 invitations were made, cell phones are prohibited so that no image of the party goes into the public domain and there are already a number of artists hired to liven up the nights, cases of Léo Santana, Ludmila, Grupo Menos é Mais , Harmony of Samba, Wesley Safadão, Alexandre Pires, Kevinho or Jeito Moleque. The party will have started this Saturday and will last until the dawn of Friday.
The news of Neymar’s party has now become a national issue, taking into account the current context of the pandemic and the numbers of the second wave in Brazil (the total number of infected since March approaches 7.5 million people). More: the country already has Covid-19 as the main cause of death in several areas. This is also why some states and municipalities have adopted stricter rules for this time of year, such as São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, the two areas most affected by the new coronavirus. Also, for this reason, the details that are known of the player’s festivities plan generated a great revolt, which can lead to everything being canceled.
It should be added that the event was organized in secret for several days by the agency and event producer from Rio de Janeiro Fábrica, which has several close friends with Neymar. It was only on the eve of the first day of the festivities that the first public information of what was being prepared came up, something that would not have gone well with the organization that considered it possible to do something of this dimension without anyone knowing but the people themselves. several artists hired and 500 people invited.
