{"id":391295,"date":"2026-04-14T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:33:10","slug":"lamine-yamal-hopeful-his-idol-neymar-makes-brazils-2026-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391295\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal hopeful his &#8216;idol&#8217; Neymar makes Brazil&#8217;s 2026 World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager is looking to Neymar\u2019s history of heroics as Barcelona face a daunting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/barcelona-player-ratings-atletico-madrid-champions-league-pau-cubarsi-marcus-rashford\/blt4e3228eca696be02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2-0 deficit against Atletico<\/a> in the Champions League quarter-finals. Yamal referenced the famous 6-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, where Neymar played a starring role in one of the greatest comebacks in football history to overturn a 4-0 first-leg loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve watched (the 6-1 match) several times, and I watched it live as well,&#8221; Yamal admitted. &#8220;Neymar is a player who was very important for me during my childhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teenager is also taking motivation from outside football. Yamal recently changed his Instagram profile picture to NBA legend LeBron James celebrating the Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 2016 championship after overcoming a 3-1 series deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s one of the figures who can inspire me for this match,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I\u2019ll think about how he did it and hopefully it works out the same for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teenager is looking to Neymar\u2019s history of heroics as Barcelona face a daunting 2-0 deficit against Atletico&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1998,1083,85,46,78591,18617,77585,77584,25548,2727,105,6866],"class_list":{"0":"post-391295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-l-yamal","13":"tag-laliga","14":"tag-neymar","15":"tag-santos-fc","16":"tag-serie-a","17":"tag-spain","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}