{"id":21558,"date":"2025-12-23T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/neymar-undergoes-successful-knee-surgery\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:36","slug":"neymar-undergoes-successful-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/neymar-undergoes-successful-knee-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar undergoes successful knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Neymar has undergone successful arthroscopic surgery on his knee, his club Santos said on Monday, as the winger bids to get back to full fitness and earn a place in the Brazil squad for next year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 33-year-old returned to his childhood club Santos in January and played a key role in their survival in the Brazilian top flight, playing through the pain and scoring five times in their last four matches.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a statement on Monday, Santos said the surgery was performed by the Brazilian national team&#8217;s doctor Rodrigo Lasmar.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;An arthroscopy was performed to treat a medial meniscus injury. The surgery was a success, and the athlete is doing well,&#8221; they added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Santos did not provide a timeline for his return, though Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte reported his recovery would take up to a month.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Neymar, Brazil&#8217;s leading goalscorer with 79 goals, has not featured for the five-times World Cup winners since 2023 due to a succession of injuries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In October, national team head coach Carlo Ancelotti said he must be fit if he is to earn a recall to the squad for the June 11 to July 19 World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/div>\n<div>Brazil will face Scotland, 2022 World Cup semi-finalists Morocco and Haiti in Group C.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21559,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21558","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Santos did not provide a timeline for his return.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Santos did not provide a timeline for his return.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25182,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21558\/revisions\/25182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}