Neymar suggested he may have played his final match for Brazil after scoring in their defeat by Norway in the World Cup round of 16 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The forward converted a stoppage-time penalty in Brazil\u2019s 2-1 loss, a result that eliminated the five-times champions and extended their wait for a sixth World Cup title.<\/p>\n
Speaking briefly after the match to Bruno Formiga, a pundit for Brazilian channel ge\u00a0<\/em>television, Neymar indicated that his tenure with Brazil had come to an end.<\/p>\n \u201cI tried, I tried, Now it\u2019s over! I started here, I finished here,\u201d Neymar said, referring to the stadium in New Jersey, where he made his Brazil debut in a friendly against the United States in 2010.<\/p>\n The 34-year-old was moved to tears after the match. It was the national team\u2019s worst World Cup performance since 1990.<\/p>\n Brazil are now heading towards their longest spell without a World Cup title since they first won the tournament. By 2030, they will have gone 28 years without lifting the trophy.<\/p>\n If Neymar confirms his international retirement, he will end his Brazil career with 80 goals and 58 assists in 130 appearances.<\/p>\n Neymar has won multiple titles at club level but his only senior trophy with Brazil was the 2013 Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –Reuters–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38887,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-38886","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The 34-year-old was moved to tears after the match.","published_date":"","news_description":"The 34-year-old was moved to tears after the match.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38886","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\/38886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38888,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38886\/revisions\/38888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}