It was the time of September 2013 the award was announced for the first time and Diego Costa became the first player to win the award of the Spanish League. Barcelona has always been amongst the strongest team of the arena but unfortunately no player from the team has been able to impress the panel for the same. Since the commencement of this award, there had been nine different clubs representatives but unfortunately no one was from the Barcelona. Neymar alone was representing FC Barcelona for this award and then turned out to be the most deserving footballer for this award.
Achiever
This time, it is Neymar who finally ended this drought of Barcelona by clinching the player of the month award. This has really been waited from a long time. Astonishingly, this delay has surprised a lot of football fans as the players from Barcelona team has always been amongst the top players of any tournament. Many football followers had suspected some kind of conspiracy of being the panel anti-Barca but with this decision, it appears that league is for more than one team.
The five goals in three games by the Brazilian forwarder to impress the panel. It was 21st opportunity and Neymar finally made it in style. Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid has been one of the five players to have won this award twice. There were many people who were expecting Lionel Messi to do this task but in-form teammate Neymar really did his best to achieve the goal.
Ending the drought
Barcelona has won seven matches and that came to a pause with the draw against Valencia. It was not that easy for Neymar to achieve this as his colleague Luis Suarez was just behind him to clinch the award with four goals. The competition was not that easy but it was the efforts of Neymar that lead him to stay in a very positive touch where he managed to score those goals.
So far, Barcelona has won 68 La Liga matches and has always been the favourite to win the finals. It has been a surprising element that the first Barcelona player took such a long time to be nominated for being the player of the month. It was really something impressive achievement for the team though they have been making the news from a long time.
The time of two years’ wait was not that easy and finally they have been able to make the panel to take the decision in favour of Neymar. This decision would surely encourage other players from Barcelona team to bring continuity in the awards too. With the present form of most of the Barcelona players, it appears that they would be able to impress with their performance soon.
