barcelona superstar neymar has scooped the samba gold award, which recognises the best brazilian player in european football the annual award by french organisation sambafoot collects over 150,000 votes worldwide as well as opinions from respected journalists and former players the 23 year old edged out compatriots miranda of atletico madrid and galatasaray midfielder felipe melo after an impressive 2014 season at the nou camp neymar has scooped the samba gold award, which recognises the best brazilian player in european football  neymar returned to barcelona from international duty to pick up the samba gold award  the brazilian was involved in his country's 1 0 friendly defeat of chile at the emirates on sunday  2008 kaka  2009 luis fabiano  2010 maicon  2011 thiago silva  2012 thiago silva  2013 thiago silva  2014 neymar  neymar has scored 26 goals in all competitions for luis enrique's side to follow psg defender thiago silva who has collected the award for the past three seasons this was the seventh edition of an accolade that has been presented since 2008 with past winners including kaka and maicon meanwhile, neymar has responded to gary medel's accusation of 'theatrics' by saying he does not know who the chile midfielder is the pair were involved in brazil's feisty 1 0 defeat of chile in an international friendly on sunday before the former cardiff enforcer accused neymar of play acting 'i don't know medel, i don't know who he is if he says that it is theatre, from there i will say nothing else only that it was a tough match,' he told mediaset thiago silva (left) had collected the last three samba gold award while playing for psg  neymar claimed not to know who gary medel was after being stamped on by the chilean at the emirates 
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barcelona superstar recognised as best brazil player in europe . neymar beat miranda and felipe melo to win the samba gold award . psg defender thiago silva had won award for last three seasons 