Neymar has insisted that his comments on walking away from the Brazil national team after the 2022 World Cup have been 'misunderstood' and he has no plans to retire from international duty.
The Paris Saint-Germain star recently gave an emotional interview in which he confessed that he sees next year's spectacle in Qatar as his last World Cup, admitting he did not feel strong enough mentally to feature in further competitions down the line.
The meaning of his words seemed pretty concrete, but nevertheless, Neymar has now backtracked on that sentiment and claimed that he views every match as his last as a way to motivate himself.
"I said something, but people understood a different thing," he told Red Bull. "I said that, yes, this would be my last World Cup and that I would face it in the best way possible.
"I will give my best to be there at 100% because it's as if I had a game the next day, it's how I go about it. If there's a game tomorrow, that game to me, it's as if it was the last one in my life.
