{"id":551835,"date":"2026-07-21T06:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:25:19","slug":"brazil-star-vinicius-junior-is-unrecognizable-after-chin-surgery-post-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/551835\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil star Vinicius Junior is unrecognizable after chin surgery post World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Brazil&#039;s Vinicius Junior;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/24\/sports\/vinicius-junior-scores-two-goals-as-brazil-blanks-scotland-in-world-cup\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil&#8217;s Vinicius Junior<\/a> is one of the most recognizable soccer players in the world, especially <a data-ylk=\"slk:after the World Cup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/05\/sports\/neymar-retires-from-national-team-after-brazils-latest-world-cup-failure\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">after the World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That is, Vini Jr. was recognizable before he got a chin harmonization surgery. Now he looks like a completely different person than who was running down Brazil&#8217;s flank during the World Cup just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Brazil soccer star Vinicius Jr. look on during a World Cup game.  Anadolu via Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/california_post_772\/f23871b9f8fc9516a302d08fdf239de2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brazil soccer star Vinicius Jr. look on during a World Cup game.  Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brazilian news site TMC published an article on Monday that the Real Madrid star underwent a chin harmonization procedure at a clinic in Goi\u00e2nia, Brazil, which was done by dermatologist\u00a0<br \/>Dr. Alessandro Alarc\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The surgery apparently, &#8220;uses fillers to sculpt the facial contour&#8221;. And in Vini Jr.&#8217;s case, he wanted to add more definition to his chin, which had been the subject of scrutiny during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vinicius Jr. look on before a Brazil World Cup game. Vanessa Carvalho\/Zuma \/ SplashNews.com\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/california_post_772\/e1fbc2efb0c2de488c73863f2560b482.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Jr. look on before a Brazil World Cup game. Vanessa Carvalho\/Zuma \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several photos of Vinicius Jr. have surfaced in the wake of this surgery, and the difference is staggering. One example of this was an Instagram post that Vini Jr.&#8217;s <a data-ylk=\"slk:ex-girlfriend, Virginia Fonseca;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/vinicius-junior-ex-gf-virginia-224043544.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ex-girlfriend, Virginia Fonseca<\/a>, made on Monday that showed her and Vini Jr. (who have clearly <a data-ylk=\"slk:reconciled after breaking up;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/vinicius-junior-ex-gf-virginia-001018947.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reconciled after breaking up<\/a> before the World Cup) posing together at her new gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Instagram user @danilosanfoneirooficial, who appears to be friends with Vinicius Jr., also made an Instagram post on Monday that showed a side profile of Vini Jr. while he was signing a Real Madrid jersey. 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class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/california_post_772\/b2944c17f38108ee7d21e02fac071e24.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Perhaps Vini Jr. has had this facial reconstruction surgery in the works for some time, or perhaps he decided to do it on a whim after Brazil&#8217;s World Cup exit. Regardless, the hope is that he&#8217;s happy with this new look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And given by how confident he looks in the photos, it appears that Vini Jr. is all smiles with his new chin.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Vinicius Junior is one of the most recognizable soccer players in the world, especially after the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1083,250641,250642,85,17147,46,105,174228,41909,6866],"class_list":["post-551835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brazil","tag-facial-reconstruction-surgery","tag-harmonization","tag-il","tag-instagram-post","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-vinicius-jr","tag-vinicius-junior","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551835","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=551835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}