Neymar’s right foot didn’t finish in the best way after last Thursday’s friendly against South Korea. Although the Brazilian crack scored two penalty goals in the 5-1 win, he was very sore after an injury that it had plagued him from the game. And this Saturday he showed it on his social networks.
The figure of Paris Saint Germain, 30, is usually very active on his Instagram account. In fact, he was seen waiting for the celebrations of the Argentine national team at Wembley.
“Did they win the World Cup?”, Was the spicy Chicano of the 10 who commented on the posting of a Brazilian portal that showed Argentine players singing and spending their eternal rival in the locker room after winning the Grand Final against Italy.
This Saturday morning, Ney reappeared on Instagram through a video uploaded to her story. First, in selfie mode, he showed his pouting face. Then the camera focused on his right foot and the image of him was chilling: his right toenail was visibly damaged, as were the rest of his toes, all purple.
Neymar’s Instagram story where he showed off his right foot.
The injury was not caused in the match played in Seoul, even if the presence on the field played a joke in his recovery.
Neymar’s shot occurred during training last Wednesday. He was seen in pain and on the ground, assisted by doctors. His foot swelled after colliding with a colleague and alarms went off quickly. It’s that it was the same foot that was traumatized by other types of injuries in the past.
In February 2018, he fractured his fifth metatarsal while playing a French Cup match. Almost a year later, in January 2019, he sprained his ankle and had to undergo surgery for lack of bone consolidation. And this season the Brazilian has faced another ankle problem that has sidelined him for 13 games.
“We will be aware of his foot until tomorrow (Thursday) morning”, had slipped the Brazilian team doctor, Rodrigo Lasmar. “Right now, it’s hard to say for sure if he’ll be able to play. We’ll see tomorrow morning,” he added.
Neymar, however, did not want to miss the game and Tité included him in the starting lineup against the Asian team. In addition to goals from Richarlison, Coutinho and Gabriel Jesús; the Brazilian 10 was eliminated with two penalty goals.
The truth is that the consequences in the foot remained so he was once again in doubt, now for the match that the five-time world champion will play this Monday against Japan.
Neymar, haunted by his wounds
In the last half, it has been difficult for Neymar to say that he has been present in all the games of the same season. It is that, in almost everyone, he has been afflicted with different types of injuries.
For the most remembered and painful, you have to travel through time a little. He was at the 2014 World Cup when he retired on a stretcher crying for Colombian Camilo Zúñiga’s knee in the lower back.
The quarter-finals were played and the 10 could not be in the semifinals against Germany due to suffering rupture of a vertebra. That game was also painful for his team, which ended up saying goodbye to the World Cup with an unexpected 7-1 against the Europeans.
Already with the PSG shirt, during the 3-0 defeat to Olympique de Marseille on 25 February 2018, he fractured the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. He went to Belo Horizonte, underwent an operation and that season he could no longer play.
On 12 August of that year, he scored his first goal in the 2018-19 Ligue 1 season. However, in late January 2019 he suffered another foot injury that kept him out of the Champions League round of 16 against Manchester. United.
Source: Clarin
