The CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) announced on Friday (14) Neymar’s cut of games against Colombia and Argentina, on March 20 and 25, for the World Cup qualifiers.
Shirt 10 is undergoing an edema in the left thigh, a problem that had already left the ace outside the semifinal of the Paulista Championship, when Santos lost to Corinthians.
The treatment is evolving, but not in time it is well physically for qualifying games.
According to coach Dorival Júnior, after the convening of last March 6, the medical department of the Brazilian team began to collect information about the treatment of the Santos player and also about Danilo, Flamengo, and Ederson, Manchester City. The three ended up cut.
“So we are calling Lucas Perri from Lyon, Alex Sandro, from Flamengo, and Endrick of Real Madrid,” said the Brazilian team coach.
The delegation performs in Brasilia this Monday (17) to start the preparation. For the 13th round, the team faces Colombia, on Thursday (20), at 21h45 (Brasília), in Mané Garrincha, in the federal capital, and then Argentina on the 25th, at 21h, at Monumental de Nuñez, in Buenos Aires.
Neymar would again defend the selection after more than 500 days. The last time he acted for the national team was on October 17, 2023, when he suffered the most serious career injury: the ruptures in the previous cruciate ligament and the left knee meniscus, played at the end of the first half in the 2-0 defeat to Uruguay by the qualifying rounds in Montevideo.
At the time, the team was still directed by coach Fernando Diniz. Unable to count on his main player, the team would still suffer two more losses at the end of 2023, precisely to Colombia and Argentina, which eventually resulted in Diniz’s resignation.
Dorival Junior took over in early 2024 with the mission of ending the bad phase of the predecessor and even had a promising start, with victory against England in Wembley and a draw with Spain at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Following, however, the team failed to gear and found it difficult to perform consistent performance on the pitch, without Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo being able to take over the post of protagonist left by Neymar.
In the period without him on the field, the Brazilian team made 16 matches and accumulated three losses, seven draws and six wins, with a 52%make -up.
In the last 16 games with the presence of the star until the injury against Uruguay, there were twelve wins, three draws and only one defeat, with the use of 81.25% and the elimination in the quarterfinals of the World Cup to Croatia on penalties.
With questions to Dorival’s work at the end of an irregular season, shirt 10 was emerging in 2025 as the great hope for Brazil to return to better performance within the four lines.
The selection currently occupies the fifth position in the South American qualifying, with 18 points-the first six guarantee a direct place to the World Cup. Lionel Messi’s Argentina leads with 25 points, while Colombia is fourth with 19 points.
