{"id":783040,"date":"2026-07-06T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:14:16","slug":"neymar-quits-international-football-after-brazils-world-cup-knockout-loss-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783040\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar quits international football after Brazil\u2019s World Cup knockout loss | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The injury-plagued striker converted a penalty but failed to take his team into the last 16 at the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

Neymar says he is done playing for Brazil\u2019s national team, making the announcement after he and his teammates were knocked out of the World Cup with a 2-1 loss to Norway in the round of 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried,\u201d Neymar said after the match on Sunday. \u201cIt started here, at MetLife Stadium, and I finished here. It is now over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neymar, 34, played his first game for Brazil on August 10, 2010 \u2013 a friendly against the United States at the stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.<\/p>\n

He is Brazil\u2019s all-time top scorer, and ironically, he got his first goal for his country ahead of global football icon Pele.<\/p>\n

\"SoccerRaphinha and Vinicius Junior console Neymar after the match [James Lang\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

Against Norway, he scored from a penalty kick in the final minutes after being brought on as a substitute. He collapsed in tears when the final whistle went and had to be consoled by teammates.<\/p>\n

Neymar appeared in only two of Brazil\u2019s five games in the tournament due to a nagging right calf injury. He was also on the field for 15 minutes against Scotland in group play.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s best player for more than a decade had been slowed by injuries in recent years that limited his impact. The country is now entering a period of transition, with the next generation taking over.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask that people will have patience with the new generation and support them from the get-go,\u201d captain Marquinhos said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury-plagued striker converted a penalty but failed to take his team into the last 16 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[7426,49,48,527,799,561,457,82,13009,13010],"class_list":["post-783040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-brazil","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-football","tag-latin-america","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}