Brazilian forward, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, popularly known as ‘Neymar”, has stated that his country’s exit from the FIFA World Cup in Qatar has “psychologically destroyed him”.
Brazil was dumped out of the competition by Croatia through a penalty shootout.
Though the 30-year-old scored a superb individual effort to equal Pele’s record goalscoring haul of 77 goals for the Selecao in Friday’s match that finished 1-1 after extra time.
“I am psychologically destroyed. It is definitely the defeat which has hurt me the most, which left me paralysed for ten minutes after the match, after which I burst into tears without being able to stop,” Neymar said in an Instagram message.
“It is going to hurt for a very long time, unfortunately,” he added.
Neymar said immediately after Brazil crashed out that he might have played his last match for his country — but Pele urged him to “keep inspiring us.”
