In some circumstances, relatively young players decide they want to stop representing their country and the announcement of Neymar’s farewell to the Brazil national team is an example. Despite being only 29 years old and despite his numbers saying that, with 69 goals to his credit, and the second ever goalscorer of the verdeoro (after Pele ), he seems to have decided to say enough. The PSG
striker , in fact, announces that Qatar 2022 will probably be his last world championship because he does not know if after him he will still have the ability to express himself at the highest level. O Ney,therefore, he suggests that he could even leave football played even if for now nothing is certain. In any case, the player declares that he will prepare for the next world championship as if he were the last and will try in every way to win with Brazil , to fulfill his dream as a child.
His international teammate, Thiago Silva, seems to understand the mood of the PSG star , with whom he has shared some unpleasant experiences, including the 2014 World Cup; the criticisms that follow to such events are merciless and at times make the desire to play pass away. For this, the defender wishes Neymar never to lose his joy and to be happy with what he does.
In the following video there are some of his numbers, which testify to his indisputable technique.
Goodbye Neymar to the national team – History Neymar
‘s story with the Brazil jersey begins in 2009 , on the occasion of the Under- 17 World Cup. His debut in the senior national team, on the other hand, dates back to 10 August 2010, when Menezes sent him on the pitch in the friendly match against the USA; he is only 18 years old and on that occasion he scored his first goal with the “greats” of Selecao.
In the summer of 2011, O Ney participates in the America’s Cup and scores two goals but Brazil comes out in the quarter-finals against Paraguay, which passes after the penalty kicks. He also plays for the 2012 Olympics and scores two goals but fails to bring home the gold because his national team loses the final against Mexico by 2 -1.
The following year he won the Confederations Cup 2013 , to which he actively contributed by scoring four goals in five matches. One of these goals arrives in the final against Spain , which Brazil beat for three to zero; at the end of the competition O Ney is elected as the best player of the edition.
From Brazil 2014 to the present day
The Brazil 2014 World Cupand an excellent opportunity to climb to the top of the world and the event starts very well for him and for the selecao. Brazil , in fact , in the opening match, beat Croatia by three to one and Neymar scored a brace. In the third match of the group, against Cameroon, the striker repeats himself and puts his signature on two more goals. On the occasion of the quarter-finals, however, the PSG ace was injured, due to a very disrupted intervention by the Colombian Zuniga. Here ends his 2014 World Cup and, in the following match, also that of Brazil ; than against Germanyhe suffers a seven to one defeat, possibly the worst fall in his history.
Obviously, he also participates in the Russia 2018 World Cup and scores two goals, against Costa Rica and Mexico; in the quarter-finals, however, his team loses against Belgium and he receives a lot of criticism because he fails to score as he should.
In 2019 , he does not participate in the America’s Cup , which is played in Brazil , due to an injury and the Brazilian selection wins the tournament by beating Peru in the final. The last edition, last summer, saw him take the field with the Brazilian shirt and score two goals; him to win it and, however, theArgentina of his friend Messi, who beats Brazil in the final and wins the America’s Cup 2021.
