{"id":440210,"date":"2023-07-20T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440210"},"modified":"2023-07-20T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:47:46","slug":"neymar-i-cried-for-5-days-after-the-wc-elimination","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/neymar-i-cried-for-5-days-after-the-wc-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar: I cried for 5 days after the WC elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar shared that he cried for 5 days in a row after Brazil\u2019s 2020 Word Cup exit, and he even thought about retiring from the national team after Croatia beat them in the \u00bc finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Neymar: \u201cAfter the World Cup exit, I didn\u2019t want to return to the Brazil team. I wanted to avoid the suffering again for my family because it has a huge impact.<\/p>\n<p>It was the worst moment of my career. I cried for five days straight. Seeing our dream evaporate is painful&#8230; I\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ecIgFI9ip5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ecIgFI9ip5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football Tweet \u26bd\uea00 (@Football__Tweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Football__Tweet\/status\/1681961926929141763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The PSG forward (31) hasn\u2019t played for Brazil since the elimination after a penalty shootout in December last year.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar scored in the extra time, which seemed like that was the crucial goal for the victory, but Croatia tied the game with 3 minutes remaining. Then the Croatian men\u2019s national football team triumphed at the shootout to progress to the \u00bd finals in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t share exactly what my thinking process was during that time,&#8221; Neymar shared with YouTuber Casimiro. &#8220;It was the worst loss in my career, without a doubt. I cried for 5 straight days. I was crushed that my dream of winning the World Cup with Brazil was set to pieces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neymar added that it would have been easier to accept the defeat if he wasn\u2019t netted in the extra time, and after 0:0, his team was eliminated after penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar shared that he cried for 5 days in a row after Brazil\u2019s 2020 Word Cup exit, and he even thought about retiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440211,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16933,16961],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[19951,19223],"acf":{"announce":"The Brazilian superstar took the defeat very badly.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440210"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440210"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}