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Sao Paulo, Oct 10 (AFP): Brazil star Neymar says next year’s World Cup in Qatar could be the last of his career.<\/p>\n
The comments by the 29-year-old striker were made in the documentary Neymar & The Line Of Kings produced by DAZN. An excerpt was published on the channel’s Twitter feed on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMan, I think it will be my last World Cup,\u201d Neymar said. \u201cI am facing it like the last World Cup because I don’t know whether I will be able to, mentally, to endure more soccer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will do everything possible to get there very well,\u201d he added. \u201cI will do all I can to win it with my country and realise my dream, the biggest since my boyhood. I hope I can achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neymar will play with Brazil later on Sunday at Colombia in a World Cup qualifying match. The Sele\u00e7\u00e3o leads the 10-team round robin competition with 27 points after nine games.<\/p>\n
The striker did not play in Thursday’s 3-1 Brazil win at Venezuela due to suspension.<\/p>\n
The match in Barranquilla will mark Neymar’s return since the 2-0 win against Peru on 10 September, in which he turned in a key Brazil performance with an assist and a goal. Despite his efforts, Neymar made clear after the match that he is upset with the treatment he gets at home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what else I need to do with this shirt for people to respect Neymar,\u201d he said. Local media accused the striker of being out of shape in the 1-0 win at Chile earlier in September, which prompted the striker to walk around shirtless during training to show how fit he is.<\/p>\n
Against Peru, Neymar overtook Rom\u00e1rio as Brazil’s top goal scorer in World Cup qualifiers, with 12 goals. He is also approaching Pel\u00e9’s record of 77 official goals for Brazil. The Paris Saint-Germain striker has scored 69 times for Brazil.<\/p>\n
Neymar has so far played at two World Cups. In 2014, he picked up a back injury in the quarter-finals against Colombia, which stopped him from playing in the 7-1 humiliation against Germany in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
In the most recent edition of the tournament, Neymar had just returned from a serious foot injury and turned in an unimpressive performance in Brazil’s 2-1 quarter-finals defeat to Belgium. He left Russia amid heavy criticism for his apparently exaggerated reaction to being fouled.<\/p>\n
Neymar won the 2013 Confederations Cup title with Brazil. He has also won the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. The striker was injured before the 2019 Copa America, which the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o won at home.<\/p>\n
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