{"id":19422,"date":"2025-03-15T12:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2025-03-15T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:30:37","slug":"injured-neymar-out-of-brazil-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/injured-neymar-out-of-brazil-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Neymar out of Brazil World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Brazil star Neymar was on Friday ruled out of upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Argentina after a thigh injury scuppered his recall to the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar has spent almost a year and a half out of the Brazil side due to injuries, but had appeared rejuvenated since his return to Santos in February.<\/p>\n<p>With Brazil down in fifth place in South American World Cup qualifying, coach Dorival Junior recalled Brazil&#8217;s top scorer with 79 goals to the side he last represented in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil play Colombia in Brazilia on March 20 and face bitter rivals and defending champions Argentina in Buenos Aires five days later.<\/p>\n<p>Neymar, 33, scored for the first time in over 14 months two weeks ago, opening his account for Santos since his return to his boyhood club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil star Neymar was on Friday ruled out of upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Colombia and Argentina after a thigh injury scuppered his recall to the national team. Neymar has spent almost a year and a half out of the Brazil side due to injuries, but had appeared rejuvenated since his return to Santos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19424,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions\/19424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}