After examination in São Paulo, Neymar is excluded from the national team and will not face Uruguay | Brazilian team

Coach Tite already knew that he could not count on Neymar against Venezuela, this Friday, at 9:30 p.m., in Morumbi. Still, I didn’t want to cut it off earlier to follow how the 10 jersey would come back.

– The player performed on Monday and since then has undergone intense physical therapy work. He showed good progress, but not enough to be available for the match against Uruguay. Today, when we arrived in São Paulo, we had already planned to perform an ultrasound to monitor the response of his cure – explained Rodrigo Lasmar, doctor of the Brazilian team.

Neymar participated in 13 of the 24 matches of the National Team after the World Cup. In other words, he was out in 45% of the games after the World Cup. Including the Copa América title last year

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The forward ran across the field, did gym work and physical therapy in three shifts.

– We brought him to stay close, so that we could continue the recovery, but we bet on PSG to follow the player’s evolution and recovery step by step from a distance. This test that we did really confirmed that there is an evolution, but that the player is not yet ready to start playing again – added the doctor.

Neymar’s departure from the group completes a sequence of bad news for Tite. Rodrigo Caio, Phillipe Coutinho, Fabinho and, finally, Neymar, who will not play against Uruguay, lost due to injury in this call, after the last attempt by the CBF.

For Covid-19, Eder Militão and Casemiro were left out. This Thursday, Gabriel Menino tested positive for Covid-19 and was also withdrawn.