{"id":10949,"date":"2021-10-10T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=157981"},"modified":"2021-10-10T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T15:17:00","slug":"neymar-plans-to-retire-from-international-football-after-2022-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/neymar-plans-to-retire-from-international-football-after-2022-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar plans to retire from international football after 2022 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian superstar Neymar hints to ultimately retire from international football after the 2022 FIFA world cup at the age of 30 years. The 29-year-old is the main and centrepiece of the Brazil offence and is one of the reasons why Brazil is still the favourite to win the Qatar 2022 FIFA world cup. Neymar who has 113 caps for his country has tasted international success in the 2019 Copa-America, however, the world cup has always been the target of a country that has a rich history of football. This has taken its toll on the PSG forward with suggesting the tournament will be his last for Brazil as he doesn\u2019t have the \u2018strength of mind\u2019 to continue.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think it\u2019s my last World Cup. I see it as my last because I don\u2019t know if I have the strength of mind to deal with football anymore,\u201d says Neymar in his exclusive interview with DAZN<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"I don't know if I have the strength of mind to deal with football any more.\"<\/p>\n<p>Neymar expects the 2022 World Cup will be his last \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Watch Neymar & The Line Of Kings now exclusively on DAZN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uhtjETVSyP\">https:\/\/t.co\/uhtjETVSyP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dyl4rDEHce\">pic.twitter.com\/Dyl4rDEHce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GOAL (@goal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goal\/status\/1447154951176835077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Neymar has always played well with Brazil, but an injury in 2014 in the Quarter-finals prevented him from playing against Germany in the semi-finals and famously lost to them 7-1. Brazil was again eliminated by Belgium in the world cup 2018 at the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, he has scored a very respectable 69 goals for his country, as well as providing\u00a0 49 assists for his teammates, meaning that he has contributed to more than a goal every game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar hints to retire from international football because he doesn\u2019t have the \u201cstrength of mind\u201d to continue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":33425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,2144,264,767],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-brazil","tag-fifa-world-cup-russia-2018","tag-neymar","tag-qatar"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}