The day Tongo sang for Neymar at the 2011 South American U-20s

Peruvian singer Jose Abelardo Gutierrez Alanyabetter known as Morning, died in the early hours of Friday, March 10. In this context, many have recalled his famous encounter with Neymar In Tacna during South American Submarine 20 of 2011Made in Peru.

The footballer came to this competition as a star in the selection of Brazil Under 20 and one of the great promises of world football, although he had yet to win any of the titles that would lead to future glory. For his part, the artist was living one of his best moments, since he succeeded with hits like ‘La pituca’ or parodies of famous songs like ‘Baby’ by Justin Bieber or ‘Lady Be’, a version of ‘Let it be’ by the Beatles.

Tongo took advantage Neymar was on Peruvian soil and went to the concentration hotel of Brazil in Tacna, where he was received by the team and had the opportunity to dedicate a song to the current PSG star, changing the lyrics of ‘La pituca’ to predict that he would be proclaimed world champion and d ‘South America.

“I spent the night crying, I spent the night suffering. Neymar will be world champion Tacna, Brazil will be champion,” he sang. Afterwards, he called cheers for the ‘canarinha‘ and he sang the song again in Italian, making the player at the time laugh Santos FCwho looked at him with a smile on his face, and the rest of the Brazilian team.

This event was captured by Brazilian television and the footage quickly went viral on Peru. Note that the following year, Morning tried to reviewney‘ the following year, when the São Paulo team arrived in Chicago face the John Aurich for the Libertadores Cup. However, despite going to the airport, this expected reunion did not happen.

Despite this second failed meeting, the Peruvian artist continued to refer to Neymar, highlighting his own version of the song “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” by Brazilian singer Michel Teló, and which the footballer used to interpret during its celebrations. In it, the cumbia singer showed himself with the particular hairstyle that the footballer wore.

The song of Morningpredicting that Neymar champion would be proclaimed Tacnaended up being a prediction, since Brazil he won South American Submarine 20 after finishing first in the last hex. In this South American, the striker scored 9 goals in 7 games, finishing as top scorer and best player in the competition.

In this contest, the ‘canarinha‘ had one of its best teams under 20, since, in addition to ‘ney‘, had numbers such as alexander sandro, danilo, casemiro, Lucas Moura there Oscarwho became stars of European football and even participated in several World Cups.

The only prediction of Morning which was not fulfilled was that of Neymar as world champion, since he did not participate in the World under 20 carried out months later in Colombia and where Brazil he emerged victorious. The reason was that he disputed Argentina America Cup with the greatest choice. His place in the team was taken by Coutinhowho has not received permission from Inter to play the South American.

That year, the current star of PSG also won the Libertadores Cup con Santos FCin which he scored 6 goals and distributed 3 assists in 13 games, being chosen as the best player of the tournament and consolidating himself as a world star.