The FIFA World Cup opens on November 20 with hosts Qatar taking over Ecuador within the first sport of the match. Amongst many favourites of the match are Brazil, who enter the World Cup with a star-studded lineup led by Neymar. The Paris Saint-Germain ahead can be collaborating in his third World Cup; his first was the house version in 2014 the place Brazil confronted a disastrous 1-7 defeat to Germany within the semis (Neymar missed the sport with an damage), in 2018, Belgium ended Brazil’s marketing campaign within the quarter-finals with a 2-1 win.
Brazil are among the many favourites to carry the World Cup title this 12 months; nonetheless, forward of the beginning of the match, Neymar has dropped a bombshell over his future with the worldwide workforce.
The Brazilian ahead has insisted that the Qatar World Cup might be his final.
“I am going to play prefer it’s the final,” Neymar instructed Globo.
“I discuss to my father, we all the time discuss, to play every sport as if it have been the final as a result of you do not know what’s going to occur tomorrow,” Neymar additional stated.
Additional speaking about the identical, the 30-year-old star acknowledged that he hasn’t selected his future but, however hinted that it is likely to be troublesome adjusting below a brand new coach.
“I can not assure that I am going to play one other [World] Cup. I truthfully do not know. I am going to play prefer it’s the final. Perhaps I am going to play one other one, possibly not. It relies upon. There’s going to be a training change and I do not know if that coach will like me,” stated Neymar.
Tite will go away his function as Brazil coach after the World Cup in Qatar.
“I’ve already constructed a protracted historical past within the nationwide workforce and, for certain, I wish to end it effectively,” Neymar added.
Neymar is just two objectives away from equalling Brazil’s all-time prime goalscorer Pele, and could be aiming to succeed in the document within the World Cup.
“It is greater than I imagined, than I dreamt,” he stated. “I by no means thought of numbers, I by no means needed to overhaul anybody, break a document. I all the time simply needed to play soccer.”