Neymar believes the 2022 World Cup will be his last for Brazil as he may not have ‘the brain power to deal with football’.
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According to Brazil, next year’s World Cup in Qatar will be the last match of Neymar’s career.
NS PSG The star has represented Selecao at the 2014 World Cup on home soil. Russia Four years later but it is expected that the tournament next winter will be his last appearance on football’s biggest stage.
Neymar would be 34 by the time he crossed the Atlantic with the United States for the first time since 1994. Canada And Mexico Ready to host the 2026 World Cup.
Neymar has represented Brazil in the 2014 and 2018 World Cups but 2022 will be his last match.
Brazil was part of Selçao which lost the Copa America final on home soil in July.
However, the Brazilian is not ready to extend his international career for another four years.
‘I think this is my last World Cup,’ the 29-year-old told DAZN during the production of an exclusive new documentary ‘Neymar and the Line of Kings’.
‘I see this as my last because I don’t know if I have the brain power to tackle football.
‘So I will do everything to be good, do everything to win with my country, to make my biggest dream come true since I was little. And I hope I can do it.’
Neymar’s participation in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil ended in the quarter-finals
The Brazilian suffered a serious back injury in his team’s win over Colombia and was sidelined
Neymar has jointly won 18 major trophies with Barcelona and PSG – including the Champions League and five league titles – but his success at the club has not translated into the international stage.
Apart from the Olympic gold he won at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Neymar’s only trophy with the national team came in 2013 when Brazil won the Confederations Cup.
A year later, Neymar carried a nation’s hopes on his shoulders as Brazil chased down their first World Cup title since 2002.
Without their talisman striker, Germany beat Brazil 7–1 in the semi-finals.
The then-Barcelona striker made braces against Croatia and Cameroon in the group stages, before suffering an injury in a quarter-final win against Colombia that knocked them out of the semi-finals against Germany.
Neymar could only watch from the edge as his teammates suffered a historic 7-1 loss at the hands of eventual winners.
Four years later, Neymar netted against Costa Rica in the group stages and scored a round of 16 victory against Mexico, before Brazil were eliminated by Belgium in the quarter-finals.
In July, Neymar was part of the Brazilian team that lost the Copa America final on home soil against Argentina, as Lionel Messi propelled Albiceleste to the first major trophy since 1993.
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