The Brazilian coach contradicted the striker, who faced Qatar as his last World Cup
The coach considers that his star can continue playing at the highest level “beyond 35 years”
The Brazilian coach Adenor Leonardo Bachi ‘Tite’was contrary to Neymar in an interview released this Friday and said that the forward has the physicality to continue playing, at least, until the 2026 World Cup.
“It’s not his last World Cup, absolutely not”said Tite in an interview with the newspaper Lance, alluding to a recent statement by Neymarin which the 30-year-old striker considered the possibility that Qatar 2022 could be his last World Cup.
The striker of Paris Saint Germain He said during a recent interview for the documentary “Neymar & The Line Of Kings”, on the DAZN channel: “I think it’s my last World Cup, I see it as the lastI don’t know if I’ll have the conditions, the head to put up with football any longer”.
Taking the counter to his main star, Tite explained that a player with the technical and physical characteristics of Neymar, “light, agile, mobile”, can continue to play at the highest level “beyond 35 years”. The coach even compared Neymar to Messi, pointing out that his “physical structure” could allow him to have greater longevity in football’s elite.
The World Cup in Qatar will be the third that I dispute Neymar with the Brazilian team, after having participated in Brazil 2014, in which the “canarinha” reached the semifinals, and Russia 2018, in which he said goodbye in the quarterfinals.