{"id":40894,"date":"2026-06-10T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/neymar-before-the-world-cup-i-feel-like-an-18-year-old-playing-for-the-first-time-in-this-tournament\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:45:22","slug":"neymar-before-the-world-cup-i-feel-like-an-18-year-old-playing-for-the-first-time-in-this-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/neymar-before-the-world-cup-i-feel-like-an-18-year-old-playing-for-the-first-time-in-this-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar before the World Cup: I feel like an 18-year-old playing for the first time in this tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/neymar-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian striker Neymar has said he feels &#8220;like a child&#8221; ahead of his fourth and final World Cup, although his presence at the tournament remains uncertain due to an injury to his right calf.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments in a Brazilian documentary series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though this is my fourth World Cup, it feels different because of everything it involves and, of course, it is the last one&#8221;, explains Neymar in a fragment of the documentary &#8220;Vai, Brasil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am here as a child, as an 18-year-old going to his first World Cup&#8221;, the Santos footballer emphasizes in the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 34, Neymar continues his muscular recovery, just a few days before Brazil&#8217;s first match against Morocco in Group 3 of the tournament that takes place in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federation Brazil&#8217;s all-time leading scorer has shown improvement from the injury sustained on May 17 but has yet to train with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a lack of game pace, his absence in the challenge against Morocco is considered certain, while he could make his debut in the second leg against Haiti on June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Despite physical problems that have affected him in recent years, coach Carlo Ancelotti has included him. in Brazil&#8217;s 26-man World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very proud, very happy to be here. I&#8217;m going to enjoy every second, every moment of this World Cup and I hope it&#8217;s also special,&#8221; Neymar said.<\/p>\n<p>He has participated in every World Cup since 2014, while Brazil haven&#8217;t won the trophy since 2002. Neymar&#8217;s best performance remains that of 2014, when Brazil were eliminated after losing 7\u20131 to Germany in the semi-finals, a match in which he did not play.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian striker Neymar has said he feels &#8220;like a child&#8221; ahead of his fourth and final World Cup, although his presence at the tournament remains uncertain due to an injury to his right calf. He made the comments in a Brazilian documentary series. &#8220;Even though this is my fourth World Cup, it feels different because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"views":11,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40896,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions\/40896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}