Sao Paulo: Brazilian terrific Ronaldo has actually contacted the Selecao’s Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti to bring back Neymar to the team for the World Cup in North America next year.
Brazil’s record goalscorer with 79 objectives from 128 matches, Neymar has actually not pulled on the yellow jersey considering that October 2023, when he suffered a severe knee injury.
The 33-year-old has actually played routinely for Sao Paulo side Santos because he went back to his very first club in January following a useless spell in Saudi Arabia with Al Hilal.
However, in his 4 matches in charge, Ancelotti has actually not called Neymar.
“He is a decisive player for the Brazilian Selecao. We don’t have another player like Neymar,” Ronaldo, who two times won the World Cup with Brazil, stated throughout a promotion occasion in Sao Paulo together with his compatriot.
“The people hope 100 percent that he will go to the World Cup because if he is there, we will definitely have better results than if he’s not there,” included Ronaldo, 49, who scored 62 objectives in 99 Brazil video games.
Neymar has actually been injury-plagued in the last couple of years and missed out on Brazil’s Copa America victory on home soil in 2019.
He signed up with Al Hilal from Paris Saint-Germain in August 2023 however after playing simply 5 times and scoring one objective, he burst his cruciate knee ligament on global task versus Uruguay.
He ran out action for a year and would play just 2 more video games for the Saudi side before leaving for Santos.
After leaving Neymar out of his team for World Cup qualifiers in September, Ancelotti stated that he “needs to get in better shape to help the national team and to give the best of himself at the World Cup.”
