{"id":746161,"date":"2026-07-06T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746161\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:08:08","slug":"neymar-says-brazil-career-over-after-norway-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746161\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar says Brazil career ‘over’ after Norway defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

An emotional Neymar said his international career for Brazil is “over” after his side’s defeat by Norway<\/a> at the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old came on as a 67th minute substitute with Brazil 2-0 down against Norway in the last-16 tie but could not stop the Selecao being eliminated. <\/p>\n

Neymar did score a penalty deep into added time at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey but it proved nothing more than a consolation effort in what is set to be his last appearance for his country.<\/p>\n

“I tried, I tried. Now it’s over. I started here, I finished here,” said Neymar in an interview with TV Globo following his side’s exit.<\/p>\n

Neymar’s debut for Brazil came at the same stadium in August 2010, when he scored in a 2-0 friendly win, external<\/a> against the United States.<\/p>\n

He has gone on to become Brazil’s all-time leading goalscorer with 80 goals, while his 130 appearances for his country puts him second on the all-time list behind Cafu’s 142.<\/p>\n

Neymar had not played for Brazil since 2023 amid struggles with injuries before being selected in his country’s squad for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n

He came on as a late substitute in Brazil’s final group game – a 3-0 win against Scotland – and his only other outing at this summer’s tournament was against Norway.<\/p>\n

He was playing at his fourth World Cup – having also played for Brazil at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emotional Neymar said his international career for Brazil is “over” after his side’s defeat by Norway at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-746161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}