The 34-year-old Brazil’s star and all-time top scorer with 80 goals in 130 appearances for the country, surpassing Pele, who had 77goals in 92 games, Ronaldo 62 goals in 99games and Romário 55 goals in 71 games, indicating his international career ended after a game against Norway on brief exchange with a journalist remember Neymar got his first goal for his country in the same stadium, in a 2-0 win against the United States back in 2010.
Here is the statement he made.
“I tried and I tried. Now it’s over. It began here, and it ends here,” Neymar said in a brief exchange with a journalist from Brazil’s Globo Esporte after the game.
Neymar has never led Brazil to victory in a World Cup final, but he has played in four consecutive World Cups in 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026 with a total of nine World Cup goals and four assists.
His best World Cup was 2014, where he had five appearances with four goals and one assist to win the Bronze Boot, but missed two matches due to injury while Brazil lost the semifinals 7-1 to Germany.
In the sequence of years 2018 and 2022, they lost in the quarter-finals.
Maybe he collapsed in tears when the final whistle went, and had to be consoled by teammates because it was a poor performance in round 16 or because of his injuries in recent years. That makes the former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain player, now back at his former club (Santos) where, at 19 years old, won the South American Footballer of the Year award in 2011.
To everybody Actually, it was a surprise when he was included in Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil squad for the World Cup, but he did what he could, remembered: Neymar came on as a late substitute at the MetLife Stadium and scored a penalty deep in injury time, but that was a mere consolation after Erling Haaland netted twice for Norway, and Brazil lost 2-1.
The reason for the statement made by Neymar Jr: ‘It started here at MetLife Stadium, and it is now over’ is because Neymar Jr made his Brazil debut at MetLife Stadium on August 10, 2010, in a friendly against the United States.