“I think the 2022 World Cup will be my last. I see her as the last one because I don’t know if I will be mentally strong enough to continue to manage my life as a footballer afterwards. “ In an interview for DAZN, Neymar had released these words which had the effect of a bomb in Brazil. The PSG star hinted at an international retirement in a little over a year, just 30 years old, after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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In an interview with his sponsor Red Bull, Neymar returned to his remarks. “I said something, but people understood something different. I said that, yes, this will be my last World Cup and that I will face it in the best possible way. I will do my best to be there 100%. Because that’s how I go about it when I have a match. If there is a game tomorrow, this game for me, it feels like the last of my life. So for this upcoming World Cup, I think about it like it’s the last for me because I don’t know how tomorrow will be and what can happen. “
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“People understood a completely different thing”
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The Brazilian international (115 caps) obviously has no intention of retiring from the international scene anytime soon. “When I said that it was a bit controversial, people were saying that I wanted to stop playing football and that I would quit the national team. People have understood a completely different thing. I wanted to say that I see it as if it was the last. Why ? Because we don’t know how tomorrow will be and what can happen. “ This should reassure the supporters of the Seleção.
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