{"id":535454,"date":"2026-07-06T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535454\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:06:08","slug":"neymar-calls-time-on-brazil-career-after-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535454\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar calls time on Brazil career after World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar&#8217;s legendary career for Brazil is over, the forward said following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/world-cup-2026\/2026\/0705\/1581841-haaland-the-hero-as-norway-beat-brazil-to-last-eight-spot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2-1 defeat to Norway in the round of 16 game<\/a> \u2060on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old was emotional in an interview with TV Globo as he was in tears at the conclusion of the match in New Jersey, where he scored Brazil&#8217;s lone goal from a penalty in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried, I tried. Now it&#8217;s over. I started here, I finished here,&#8221; Neymar said.<\/p>\n<p>He \u200chad made his \u2060first international appearance for Brazil in a friendly against the United States on 10 April, 2010, at MetLife Stadium, the same venue as on Sunday, and scored in his debut.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar, if he indeed retires from suiting \u200cup for Brazil, finishes as the country&#8217;s all-time leading scorer with 80 goals. The legendary \u2060Pele, who recorded 77, was the only Brazilian in \u200cfour World Cups before Neymar matched him on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cafu had \u2060142 appearances \u200cfor Brazil, with Neymar&#8217;s 130 second on the all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar&#8217;s previous goal for Brazil came in 2023, the last time he played for the national \u2060team. Injuries have played a major part as he tore his \u2060ACL in 2023 and missed Brazil&#8217;s first two group-stage games at the 2026 World Cup because of a right calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>He entered as a substitute and played 15 minutes against Scotland on 24 June and came on off the bench in \u200cthe 67th minute for the match Sunday against Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neymar&#8217;s legendary career for Brazil is over, the forward said following the 2-1 defeat to Norway in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-535454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}