Fight for your right to party: Brazilian hotshot Neymar defends his lifestyle at tense media conference
The Barcelona striker tells reporters he will not change his ways after questions about his lifestyle
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Brazilian football star Neymar is a party boy and he’s not going to apologise for it.
At a sometimes tense press conference on Tuesday at the facility where Brazil’s Olympic football team is training for the Rio Games, the Barcelona striker told reporters he would not change his ways.
Growing increasingly irritated, the Barcelona star went on: “I really don’t see the problem. It’s my private life. On the pitch, I always give everything I have.”
One of the journalists had asked Neymar how invested he was in the national team, given a recent spate of suspensions and the fact that he went out clubbing after a 2-2 draw with Uruguay in the 2018 World Cup qualifying rounds – a match that saw him earn a yellow card.
Last week, Brazil’s Olympic coach Rogerio Micale surprised some when he said: “I want to be dependent on Neymar.”
The next day, national coach Tite – who will take over the Selecao after the Olympics – warned against putting too much pressure on Neymar, saying it was “inhuman to put all the responsibility on one person.”
Brazil, five-time world champions who have never won Olympic gold, have struggled recently to escape accusations of being a one-man team with little threat beyond its Barcelona star.
“We have great players, and wouldn’t we say that we rely on Messi? Of course we rely on him. We rely on the best players.”
Brazil’s Olympic squad will play a friendly against Japan on Saturday in Goiania.
The team is in group A with South Africa, Denmark and Iraq.
