Neymar: I don’t know if my mind is strong enough to continue playing football. The 2022 World Cup will be my last

In terms of pure football talent, Neymar is one of the best footballers in the world. But he lacks something to reach the very top, be it health, attitude or, as he has now admitted, head.

Coping with the pressure that footballers put on themselves is not easy. You can play thousands of good games and still have something go wrong later on and face a lot of criticism from the fans.

Hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of fans are counting on your performances and results and if you let them down, it is not easy to cope. Especially when it comes to Brazil, where football is, without exaggeration, a religion. The Canaries have won the World Cup five times, making them the most successful national team.

They are desperate for a sixth triumph, but it has been a long time coming. Neymar, on whom the Brazilians had pinned all their hopes, has not changed that. He had his first shot in 2014, but after a knee to the back from Colombia’s Zuniga, he finished in the quarter-finals at the domestic championship. And in the semi-final he had to endure a bitter 1:7 defeat from the Germans from the stands.

In 2018, Brazil already finished in the quarterfinals of the championship, having crashed out after losing 1: 2 to Belgium. And although Neymar is only 29, he thinks the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where he will be 30, will be his last.

“I think it will be my last World Cup. I see it as my last because I don’t know if my mind is strong enough to continue playing football, ” Neymar said in a new documentary, ‘Neymar & The Line Of Kings’.

“So I will do everything to show myself in a good light, I will do everything to win, to fulfil my biggest dream that I have had since childhood. And I hope I can do it,” the 29-year-old Brazilian added.

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