EVER SINCE HIS ‘IT’S NOT LIKE I’M BLACK, YOU KNOW?’ COMMENT, NEYMAR HAS SERVED AS A FOCAL POINT IN BRAZIL’S CULTURAL RECKONING WITH RACISM, WHITENING, IDENTITY AND PUBLIC POLICY.

Managing his son's off-pitch affairs have made him fabulously wealthy, but he has never let Neymar down as the star has been guided to the top From the streets of Sao Paulo to the most expensive ...