Looking ahead to the imminent World Cup in Qatar, Neymar granted an interview for Globoesporte. It is a intimate conversation where the Brazilian star answers personal questions about the sporting and emotional relationship he has with the world competition.
Thus, for example, he confesses how he feels about the World Cup challenge: “That was my dream, what i projected. Of course, playing for the Brazilian team was always my dream. Just playing for the national team is amazing. Was a sleep that I am not fulfilling just for myself, but for my friends, who could not play professionally, for my father, for my grandfather, for my family “
Asked about how much the continuous criticsNey defends himself: “There are also many injustices for being Neymar, for being what I am in the Brazilian team. I hear things that don’t make sense. I can’t get to the numbers I have without being disciplined, without having trained, without having fought to conquer all this. I can’t break records all the time, every day. I worked for it I trained for it, I stopped doing much for it. The criticism is unfair and it hurts me because nobody knows the reality in which I live. No one knows my day to day. The people around me, the ones closest to me, know very well what I do to stay in shape, to be 100 percent and not get injured. Injuries happen, they are part of the athlete, the footballer.”
“I take care of myself every day, I prepare myself for it,” continues the PSG player. “I do the things I have to do to play good football in the game. The day I don’t want to take care of myself anymore, I won’t play football. It’s not because of that, it’s not like that. People have to understand that my life is not what they imagine it to be. My life is how I want it to be. I’m here for that, to break records, to try to make history in the Brazilian team”.
Finally, the journalist asks if it is true that Qatar will be his last World Cup, as indicated by the continuous rumors that are circulating in Brazil. To which the player replies: “I will play this World Cup as if it were the last. I talk constantly with my father about this. I have to play each game as if it were the last because you don’t know what will happen tomorrow. I can’t guarantee that he will play another Cup. Sincerely I dont know. I will play as if it were the last. Maybe I’ll play another, maybe not. It depends… He’s going to change coach, I don’t know if the coach will like me”.
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Faced with the real possibility that this will be his last World Cup, the journalist asks him if the causes are your age and physical condition which leads him to think about leaving the competition after Qatar. Neymar answers emphatically: “No. It all depends on how I am. It’s something I don’t want to say anything about right now. I want to play this Cup, dedicate myself to it, because I am sure that we have the potential to go far. Although many people do not trust us, we will prove otherwise. I think this team has a lot of potential and I am convinced that we can go very far”.
