After a difficult first season at Barcelona, Neymar showed why the Catalans were so desperate to lure him to Camp Nou this term with a string of sublime performances.
The 23-year-old netted 39 goals in 51 appearances in all competitions to guide Barça to La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League glory.
But Neymar's season is not over yet as he captains Brazil at the Copa América in Chile, with Dunga's side bidding to erase the memory of last summer's 7-1 semi-final defeat to Germany at the World Cup.
The forward missed that game after fracturing a bone in his back in the quarter-final victory over Colombia and is determined to make amends 12 months on.
"In Brazil there are always a lot of quality players and we have a great team that can get back into the first position in every tournament," Neymar recently stated.
"If we keep training well, stick together and listen to our coach, then I think we can go back to being number one."
Guiding Brazil to silverware will be much more of a challenge than winning trophies with Barcelona, though. At club level, Neymar is part of the world's most prolific frontline, with himself, Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez scoring over 100 goals between them this season.
With Brazil, however, Neymar does not have the luxury of being surrounded by a host of top players and he will have to shoulder the attacking burden during the tournament, despite Dunga's claims to the contrary.
"No individual can win without a strong collective. At the World Cup, the teams that only had one player did not win anything," the Brazil coach commented earlier this month.
"Now, it is only natural that those special players add a lot to a team. But a strong collective supports the individual and the individual too has to work for the collective."
Of course, players such as Willian, Douglas Costa and Philippe Coutinho are all talented attackers, but they are not in the same class as Messi and Suárez.
Messi will be Neymar’s biggest rival as the pair bid to win a seventh piece of silverware this season. They may be friends at club level but they will be enemies for the next three-and-a-half weeks.