Posted October 26, 2021 at 9:10 pm by AM
While he recently hit the headlines with his statements regarding his international future, Neymar assures us that he is still far from retirement.
A few days ago, Neymar found himself at the heart of a controversy after his remarks to DAZN. “I think it will be my last World Cup. I think that because I do not know if I will have the mental strength to take care of football ”, released the Brazilian star, launching many debates around his motivation to continue his career at the highest level. Consequently, his future at PSG has also been called into question and his recent performances are not enough to reassure Parisians. Neymar seems far from its best. Worse yet, he seems a bit lost on the pitch, as evidenced by his match against OM on Sunday. But the former FC Barcelona player wanted to make things clear about his statement on the sidelines of the French national final Red Bull Neymar Jr's Five in Paris.
“Les people understood a completely different thing ”
“I said something, but people understood something else. I said that, yes, this will be my last World Cup and that I will face it in the best possible way. I'll give my best to be 100% because it's like having a game the next day, that's how I approach it. If there's a game tomorrow, for me it's like it's the last of my life. So for this World Cup that's coming up, I think about it like it's the last for me because I don't know how tomorrow will be and what can happen. When I said that it was a bit controversial, people were saying that I wanted to stop playing football and that I was going to quit the national team. People have understood a completely different thing. I wanted to say that I live this season as if it was the last. Why ? Because we do not know how tomorrow will be and what can happen, ”he says in comments reported on the Red Bull site. A reassuring message for PSG , since Neymar does not intend to end football immediately.