{"id":509221,"date":"2026-02-27T05:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509221"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:23:15","slug":"neymar-returns-with-2-goals-to-lead-santos-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/neymar-returns-with-2-goals-to-lead-santos-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar returns with 2 goals to lead Santos to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar broke his goal drought this year as he led Santos to a 2-1 win against Vasco da Gama in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> round of the Brasileir\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, the ex-Barcelona and PSG forward spoke about his critics and the mounting pressure ahead of the World Cup in North America in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral days ago, they said I was the worst footballer in the world. Today, I scored twice, and that\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d the Brazilian legend shared. \u201cThat\u2019s the beauty in our game. One day, people claimed that you should retire, and the next, they say you have to go to the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After scoring the opening goal in the match in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, Neymar celebrated by heading to the corner flag to perform the same dance Vini Jr did after scoring in both legs of Los Blancos\u2019 UCL playoff tie with Benfica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe celebration I did was in support of Vinicius,\u201d Neymar acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to Vini after his goal in Lisbon, where they insulted him and were racist towards him, that if he scored a goal, he must do the same celebration, and I will do the same if I score.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Neymar. I mean, Neymagic. \ud83c\udfa9\ud83e\ude84 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TsWurWuCME\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TsWurWuCME<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Santos FC (@SantosFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SantosFC\/status\/2027198638586245538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neymar broke his goal drought this year as he led Santos to a 2-1 win against Vasco da Gama in the 4th round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509222,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16961,20465],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[19223,949],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Brazilian star silenced the critics in his return.","video":["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\/509221"}],"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=509221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509223,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509221\/revisions\/509223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509221"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509221"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}