Brazil legend Kaka believes that Neymar has a chance of winning the 2020 Ballon d’Or.
Former Real Madrid and AC Milan playmaker Kaka is well versed in being named the world’s outstanding player, having received the honour himself 2007, the year he was also the recipient of the FIFA World Player of the Year award.
Neymar, meanwhile, has never enjoyed such recognition, and while he maintains that winning individual prizes is not his priority, there is a sense that the world’s most expensive player would relish such an accolade.
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And Kaka believes that it is possible that the 28-year-old could follow in the footsteps of Lionel Messi, who picked up his sixth Ballon d’Or earlier this year, taking him one clear of rival Cristiano Ronaldo.